4 years, 5 months, 26 days, and about 21 hours ago, i won a spot in the MET orchestra. 15 minutes before that, i flipped my recorder on, threw it in my bag, and got the whole thing on tape.
a 4-step process to methodically obliterate nerves. ('cause the audition committee deserves to hear the REAL you. not shaky, freaked out, panicky you.)
there's 3 main parts: the warm-up, the run-through, and the body of work. and it MIRRORS audition day. (which makes that day feel like just another day!)
audition prep is an assembly line: you stick excerpts in one side, and they shoot out the other. so how do you deal with that unorganized mess of tasks in the middle?