<p>TW-</p>
<p>With performance auditions there tends to be very little interaction between the panel and the auditioner as far as I know, and given the large number of foreign students conservatories and such have coming to them these days with English proficiency in a range, it probably won’t be as big a deal as you think, least from what I know:)</p>
<p>Omg when does juilliard voice come out?!?!?!?! They are taking FOREVER!</p>
<p>Many have already heard, both positive and negative for Julliard Voice this past week.</p>
<p>@stradmom/musicprnt/compdad/skieur</p>
<p>Thank you for all the responses and help. I’ll be sure to practice super hard then, to show great improvement at the auditions, and keeping in mind there is a chance I could pass, even if it’s very small.</p>
<p>Oh and about the 1 hour a day… I’m in a lot of AP classes and things, and have bad procrastination habits on top of that, as well as being in several clubs… though I am improving my time management skills. Too bad I didn’t start thinking about a music career several years back, where I could have put more priority on music when the school work wasn’t that tough :)</p>
<p>thanks again (i’ve probably said this like 100 times now on this forum haha) it’s greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>Yoshi, what I used to do is actually practice at my lunch time at school. Are you able to do that? That would give you extra time as well!!</p>
<p>Yoshi, one way to increase your practice effectiveness is to up the amount of time you spend listening to your pieces. Put whatever you’re practicing on repeat on your ipod and just play it when you’re having lunch, doing studying that you can multitask, travelling etc. It’s amazing how your brain will influence your hands!</p>
<p>Yoshi-</p>
<p>What you are talking about, the issues of balancing practicing versus doing the academic load at school, ec’s, etc, is something a lot of serious music students face, especially kids heading into music performance. In the pre college programs by junior and senior year, for example, you often can see which kids are planning to go into music and which aren’t, the ones who are heading into the academic track generally fall off on their playing, because it is next to impossible for them to maintain the academic load of AP’s, EC’s and so forth required for top academic schools and maintain the practice schedule (some do). It is why a number of music students homeschool, and those in standard schools generally back off from the academic load to concentrate more on the music (doesn’t mean slack off, it means simply not taking 8 AP’s, etc, etc the way many kids do), because to get into the high level of skills required to get into top music programs, you can’t skip practicing the many hours (it also varies by instrument, a pianist or violinist can practice 4,5, 6 hours a day, a woodwind player or brass player might find that difficult, and a voice student would sound like froggy on the old “little rascals” episodes (I know, long before your time…
if they attempted to sing that much. </p>
<p>As far as your chances of passing the audition, the fact that you got by the pre screen says a lot already, it means they think you do have a chance, otherwise they wouldn’t have taken you, and music ed is different then performance, they are prob looking for different things, among which from what little I know of music ed, grades and such weigh into the process, as well as enthusiasm for potentially teaching, something not true of most performance programs, where the audition and how well you play is pretty much almost everything:).</p>
<p>I agree with stradmom on listening to the pieces you will be playing, one of the things sorely neglected by music students IME is listening to the music, reading the scores, etc, and it is something you can do while doing other things. Among other things, I believe it gives you the feel of the piece, what it is about, to study and listen to the music;)</p>
<p>In addition to what stradmom and musicprnt said, sing the tune as you play, that will help a great deal with legato. In addition to composition (his private teacher requires up to 20 hours a week prep for lessons), my son has violin lessons with daily practice and is taking 4 APs including BC Calc, English and Physics. I don’t know how he does it except by being a great time manger and has learned that sleep is for wimps.</p>
<p>Oh. My. God. I just got snail mail from Juilliard: I PASSED PRESCREEN FOR VOICE! This is not happening! :D</p>
<p>Final List:
<p>This will be my first trip to NYC ever!!! OMG I am soo excited!!</p>
<p>Many many congrats Bassbari94! May you have many tough decisions ahead as to where to go.</p>
<p>I guess mine will come snail mail too? I thought they did everything via email???</p>
<p>@nyboundsoprano</p>
<p>I believe so that is is through e-mail (at least most places?)</p>
<p>@bassbar94</p>
<p>Congrats! Denied at Rice but accepted into Julliard and everywhere else, nice! :D</p>
<p>@Lifeofsolitude</p>
<p>Not a bad idea!</p>
<p>@stradmom</p>
<p>I listen to recordings while I do stuff on the computer, but have been too lazy to get it onto an MP3 player. I guess I’ll start doing that if I want to take this seriously then :)</p>
<p>@musicprnt</p>
<p>Thanks for the insight. I regret not being homeschooled (then again perhaps me+parents wouldn’t be a good combination for me to stay on top of studying) as it does seem like ideally, you would have a lot of extra time (here at my school there is too much time not teaching, where you sit around or just do busy work…). But like it was noted, hindsight may be misleading, and the past is what it is anyways.</p>
<p>I’m remaining hopeful right now because of that (passing the pre-screening somehow), and I will be so overjoyed if I do pass! (no gap year, and able to start freshman year? perfect!)</p>
<p>@Compdad</p>
<p>Sounds like a really hard/good worker! I don’t get much sleep neither but I definitely am not spending my time as efficiently as your son o.o. I’ll keep that in mind and try to improve my own time management skills!</p>
<p>Also I will try singing along, sounds fun and will force myself to use even more parts of my brain at the same time.</p>
<p>Oh thank God. I passed Juilliard prescreening. I had to call them and they apologized. For some reason the email wasn’t going through so they sent it snail mail. What a relief! (for voice btw)</p>
<p>Congratulations nyboundsoprano: We too had Juilliard email issues two years ago. Juilliard said that the issue was our isp, but ours was not listed on Juilliard’s site as one of the bad ones and we have never had a similar issue in 15 years with this same internet service provider. Best of luck!</p>
<p>congrats, guys!
is anyone applying for the columbia-juilliard exchange?
I passed the prescreening for Juilliard, so now I need to do well on the live audition and get into Columbia University</p>
<p>UCLA audition tonight! Wish me luck!!! :)</p>
<p>Knock their socks off, lifeofsolitude!</p>
<p>Kimchi-
I wish you luck! Just keep in mind that is really, really hard, even if you get into Juilliard and Columbia there is a good chance you might not get into the exchange program itself, so don’t feel too badly if you don’t get in, they take a handful of students each year.</p>
<p>Good luck lifeofsolitude and to others who are auditioning this weekend!</p>
<p>Just had my rice audition, didnt go perfectly 
Oh well, i wasnt gonna get into that school anyways
Auditions are now officially over! Now some piano competitions :P</p>