<p>I’m waiting on a prescreening decision from BU; has anyone heard anything? I emailed a music admission person who said decisions were slated to go out on 1/10, but that’s almost two weeks ago, now, and I’m worried.</p>
<p>D received notice today by mail that she passed pre-screen for Peabody for flute performance (she had met with 2 of the 3 teachers for lessons last fall)</p>
<p>Congrats mtpaper!!! Are you staying at the Peabody Inn? My D and I found it quite nice and homey (and convenient) when she was there for a masterclass a couple years back.</p>
<p>S passed pre-screening for Peabody composition.
He also had an interesting e-mail from Curtis.
58 applicants for composition this year. 6-8 will be invited as finalists for interviews, they did not say how many available slots but I am guessing 1-2 !!!</p>
<p>marimbamom
yes that’s about the same for piano perf apparently. Except they have over 100 pianists auditioning.
Curtis always holds the hardest competition!
Best of luck!!</p>
<p>My D is auditioning for her Masters in Piano Performance in a couple of weeks…I was wondering if anyone knows how many piano spots Manhattan School of Music has open this year?</p>
<p>Son has auditions scheduled at NEC, Peabody, Curtis, Juilliard, and Bard Conservatory. It’s going to be a whirlwind of travel with little slivers of practice time in between!</p>
<p>pianolover - I spoke with the admission rep from Manhattan this fall at our local college arts fair. She told me up front that if they get 10 piano players auditioning and they want all 10, they will take all 10. MSM doesn’t use a quota system. Hope so…have an upcoming jazz piano player for 2012.</p>
<p>squiggles, i am wondering if you know anything about MSM undergrad violin performance?</p>
<p>Colburn had lost my DVD. Fortunately, they’re letting me resend it. I definitely had a panic attack yesterday when I found out.</p>
<p>ouch, actually I should call jacobs to see if they received mine. I can’t recall getting any confirmation on that</p>
<p>Running the Basses, I attended last year’s Met Council Auditions. I believe that two or three of the finalists were from MSM, one of them, Lori Guilbeau, won. One finalist was from Juilliard. I don’t recall whether any attended Mannes.</p>
<p>I was referring to Nadine Sierra - I believe she won in 2009?</p>
<p>I got interrupted before I could finish my post, sorry. I have been contacted privately as a result of this thread by some parents of students considering MSM. Apparently, the concern is about performance experience. You may or may not remember that my S is a freshman there. He decided on the school and I was in love with another school 
MSM has been a good experience for him so far, but I am not a “gung ho” MSM parent yet - it will take me a while. But, to help students who may be applying and may be wondering what the deal is in terms of what the performance opportunities really are, I wanted to address this to the best of my knowledge. I know that this is a stressful time and making the decision of which school to attend is a hard one. </p>
<p>Here are the things that you can perform in as a Freshman and Sophmore:
2 recitals of performance class per year open to public
2 choir concerts per year - soloist this fall was a freshman
chamber choir (sophmores)
Some studios have recitals
There may be other things that I do not know of yet (we are new)</p>
<p>Junior year students can, as I said, audition for the opera. I don’t know how this stacks up to other conservatories with grad schools, but I hope this helps to clear up what is and is not available at MSM. </p>
<p>To be fair, MSM never misrepresents what they are providing. They provide access to top-notch faculty. They tell you right up front that there is only one opera a year and that students can’t audition until Junior year. Since he would be auditioning against graduate students (some of a caliber to win the Met Council Auditions), it was pretty obvious to us that the chances of getting into the opera as a Junior or Senior is pretty slim. We understood that our S was going to be looking elsewhere for performance opportunities - in summer programs and in other NYC programs and we knew we might have to pay for them. As it turms out, our S is in the choir of an opera ensemble as a Freshman. There may be more opportunities like this for men than for women. </p>
<p>So. if you decide to go to to MSM, you need to understand that there are limited performance opportunities and that you may have to look elsewhere, ie summer programs and other opportunities in NYC, and some of these opportunities may cost additional money. You may want to take that into account when you are thinking about the cost of attendance at various schools when you are making your final decisions.</p>
<p>As far as I am concerned, I think all the NYC schools are pretty much comparable and in the end, it comes down to personal preference or the teacher you choose. A lot of the faculty overlaps. I think a lot of the back and forth just comes down to a friendly rivalry between the students at the schools. Each of the schools has impressive faculty, has produced its share of Met Council Audition winners and has wonderful performances, including the operas. Whatever school you choose in NYC, you are lucky to have the advantage of all the artistic experiences NYC has to offer.</p>
<p>Hope this is helpful to someone out there.</p>
<p>My son passed pre-screen and had/will have auditions for jazz bass at SUNY Purchase, NYU, MSM. He did not get call back from NEC or Julliard.</p>
<p>Purchase audition was this weekend and he said it went very well. NYU and MSM coming this week.</p>