<p>I've been playing for about 5 and a half years now and have won numerous state & regional competitions around my area. Three year member of state honor band & county honor band. I'm principal flute in my orchestra (senior symphony)</p>
<p>Repertoire:
Taktakishvilli,
Poulenc Sonata,
Ibert Concerto,
Chaminade's Concertino,
Demersseman's Italian Concerto in F Major,
CPE Bach Concerto in D minor,
CPE Bach Sonata in A minor for flute alone,
Prokofiev Sonata in D major,
JS Bach Sonata in A minor,
JS Bach Sonata in E major,
Mozart concerti (D major &G major),
halfway through Anderson Op. 15, Carmen Fantasy (flute solo),
all of "Orchestral Excerpts for Flute" selected by Jeanne Baxtresser.</p>
<p>That's all the music I can think of right now. Does it show where I am?
I'm currently a junior.</p>
<p>The number of openings in college programs vary from year to year dependent on how many are graduating. Flute (and soprano voice) is the most competitive of the instruments...simply because of the large number of students studying this instrument. Many schools are now requiring preaudition tapes to determine who will be selected for live auditions. I will say, most schools will tell you if they have an opening for the upcoming year. BUT they sometimes audition students on an instrument with no anticipated openings in case they need to fill a spot. CM's instrumental program is not huge. I can't imagine they have more than 2 flute openings in any given year...but again...it certainly will vary from year to year. Maybe this is the year ALL the flutes are graduating and there will be more openings.</p>
<p>angiee
I'm the Mom of of former flute performance major.Your repertiore sounds on track.
what you need is an evaluation.Do you have a private teacher who can evaluate your level in an unbiased manner?
do you have a University School of Music nearby ,where you can schedule a lesson with the flute studio teacher? It doesnt have to be a school you may be interested in attending,but the studio teacher will give you an idea of your level of playing .
You can also, as a junior,schedule a lesson at a School of Music you may be interested in attending.Be prepared to pay for the teachers time.
Have you attended summer programs?Are you familiar with what it means to be a performance major?It involves theory,ear training,music history,hours and hours of studio time and ensemble time.
And Thumper,I LOL about ALL the flute players graduating at once..I dont think there was anywhere D applied/auditioned where they were admitting more than 2 flautists in a year.</p>
<p>do you want a conservatory? or a college that has a music major among other departments? or a place with a lot of opportunities for extracurricular musical opportunities? or a school that offers lessons for anyone who wants them?</p>
<p>my close friend is a sophomore there now as flute performance. she doesn't take alternates either. If those 2 decide not to go to carnegie mellon, then she doesn't take any new flutes that year.</p>
<p>Thank you for starting this thread!! D is only a sophomore, but is very involved in music (flute, pic and alto). Older D is attending a conservatory for music theater, and we thought that was highly competitive...and it is. But, carnegie accepted a total of 9 in their mt program this year...out of roughly 900 who auditioned. How many flutes usually audition to these programs? Any suggestions to what my flautist may do to help her along this process?<br>
Thanks!</p>
<p>My friend at Carnegie Mellon said "practice, practice, practice." For their music program, the audition is the majority of the decision. They don't look much at grades before they look at the performance...as opposed to places like Northwestern that look at grades and then narrow down from that who gets to audition (I think.)</p>
<p>I'm not sure how many auditioned last year...maybe 400-500 flute performance majors at carnegie mellon? I know that last year, both of the chosen flute players took other offers (Juilliard and Northwestern(?)) and so she had no new flutes last year.</p>
<p>I know a little bit about the flute department at Carniege Mellon. It is becoming a "hot" school for flute with the addition of Jeanne Baxtresser. I do not know how many flute students they accept each year but I do know that you cannot state which studio you want to go into, you must study with all 3 teachers and so many want to study with Jeanne. I also have heard that Jeanne has students who are not undergrads but are performers who are taking a leave to study with her.</p>
<p>I do know that CMU has pre-audition CD's but I don't have a number on how many were chosen to audition at the school. I have also heard that this year there were European students who were auditioning at American schools and I heard that they were "amazing".</p>
<p>From what I understand from my friend at CM, you do study with all the flute teachers. Jeanne Baxtresser is like the head of it all...I don't want to sound like an expert or anything, because I'm not, I just want to share what i know from her...I don't know how many auditioned this year, but she helped run auditions, and just said that all of them were amazing since they're all pre-screened.</p>
<p>i'm not only focused on carnegie mellon; i'm looking at other schools also.
does anybody know anything about
Boston University?
Washington?
etc?</p>
<p>I'm very interested in BU, especially with Dwyer there.
any info on that? :)</p>