<p>Cosmos, any prior experience with Aldebergh faculty? Sometimes, this can get you a quicker response if you have an internal contact or previous relationship.</p>
<p>^^ I meant with faculty at the program(s) you’re waiting to hear from. Senior moment.</p>
<p>Anyone know the chances of getting off the waitlist at MAW? not many i suppose :/</p>
<p>My daughter has one acceptance from NRO and two rejections so far. Still waiting for a few–including that one that was still accepting applications until March 12! And NRO wants to know definitely by the 12th. NRO was a last minute add on, a live audition, so that wasn’t planned very well.</p>
<p>bluepearl, sounds like I’m waiting for the same one as your daughter (the one that’s taking apps thru the 12th)… I’d really like to do that one, but what am I to do because who knows when they’ll release results! Quite late I’d imagine and I have to tell this other one I got accepted to by March 19…</p>
<p>I just realized I don’t even know where the NRO houses the kids, or if room and board are provided and could find nothing on the website. A good thing to know before emailing an acceptance to them–anyone know? I’ll tell my daughter to email them and ask them.</p>
<p>From their website:
For those selected from the 2010 auditions, the NRO provides a tuition-free orchestral internship that affords its members the opportunity to perform an extensive repertoire during the eight-week season. Coaching, master classes, career development seminars and chamber music supplement the orchestral experience. Orchestra members are provided a modest food allowance as well as room and board in historic Breckenridge, Colorado.</p>
<p>Thanks, Binx! I don’t know how I missed that…</p>
<p>My daughter was an alternate at MAW, but today she got an email saying that the studio is booked. 
She’s been accepted at another program where they are pressuring her for an answer, although she is waiting to hear from 2 other programs. One of them is Aspen, although even if she is accepted we will probably not be able to afford to send her. Does anyone know whether a festival holds it against a student who declines an acceptance? Or do you start again from scratch with each application?</p>
<p>I think as long as you follow protocol the festivals don’t hold it against you if you decline them. They know that students are applying to multiple places. They want the best group of students each year and would probably be eliminating a large part of the talent pool if they held grudges. It’s too bad there aren’t standard application, notification and acceptance dates.</p>
<p>There’s a festival I’m waiting to hear from, and some people in my instrument and others have heard that they’ve been wait-listed or accepted, but others haven’t. Some people for other instruments have heard too, but I’m still waiting and so are a bunch of people I know… Does this mean I haven’t gotten in?</p>
<p>Cosmos, my daughter was in this position with a festival. Some friends heard two weeks ago that they were accepted or wait-listed, but she heard nothing. She finally emailed Friday to ask what her status was and got an email back on Saturday saying that she was not accepted. I don’t know if they were planning to mail out the rejections eventually…or not tell her at all. I think the best course of action is a gentle, polite inquiry.</p>
<p>Ok, thanks. I actually emailed them a week or so ago and they haven’t gotten back to me… Oh well…</p>
<p>My daughter is a high school senior, waiting to hear from conservatories. Since age 12 she’s spent the summers at heavy-duty string programs. She is still waiting to hear back from some summer programs, but is thinking of trying something different this summer. Has anyone been to the Mark O’Connor string camp(s)? How does it work, in terms of the different classes and workshops?</p>
<p>I have known several kids who went there, plus I know a little bit from people who have taught there. His camps are much like he is himself, they transcend genre, he has teachers at the camp from a wide variety of disciplines, from jazz to fiddling to rock to classical and everything in between. He gets really high level people there, and the idea is to encourage opening up and exploring music. Among other things, they tend to have some interesting jam sessions from what I hear. It is very unconventional, and some in the classical world look at it as some sort of “fiddling thing” with their nose wrinkling, but he has had some high level classical teachers there, including at least one Juilliard teacher that I know of. Personally, I would love my son to go at some point, to be able to look a little beyond the rigid training that is classical violin study and learn things like improvising around themes and various styles.</p>
<p>Which Juilliard teacher, if you remember offhand, musicprnt? I noticed Kenji Bunch is listed as viola faculty. I’m starting to think this would be a super-exciting way to spend a week of summer before college. I think it’s important for classical musicians to step outside of the old paradigm and recognize music across the genres. I kind of wish the camp were a little longer. We’re trying to understand how the camp works in terms of the courses-- from what I read on the website, it sounds sort of loose. My daughter is used to very formal programs with a set-in-stone schedule.</p>
<p>I have heard back from Interlochen and NYSSSA School of Orchestral Studies (both acceptances!), but Interlochen is for the band program and I really wanted to be in an orchestra this summer, so I’m still going to wait to hear back from Brevard, Eastern, and BUTI before I decide.</p>
<p>Does anyone know anything about Bay View Music Festival?</p>
<p>Anybody got intel on Quartet Program (Fredonia) or Heifetz to share? Thanks!</p>
<p>My daughter has attended QP at Fredonia for two summers and has absolutely loved it. Finally, here was a place where other players loved chamber music as much as she does, who take it seriously, and played at her level. She has become a much better chamber player because of her time there and liked the Sonata week as well (between sessions). She loves Charles Castleman as a person, but didn’t feel his teaching style was right for her, hence did not apply to Eastman. It’s small, closely knit and very supportive. She and I would both highly recommend QP. She wanted to try something different this year (and free), so did not reapply.</p>