This Sunday I will be participating in a Concerto Competition. At the competition I will be playing the first movement from Concerto No. 1 by Mozart. I've been working on the piece for months with my teacher, so I am very familiar with it. I wanted to know if any of you guys had any tips or advice about the movement, like certain things the judges might be looking for. Thanks in advance!

Let me look through my music and make sure I am thinking about the same piece. If so I have notes on it from my college professor, and I will be happy to share some info.

Thank you! I will appreciate it! :-)

HEY!! I just played that for my recital! I beleive it was Mozart Concerto No. 1. On the top of the music sheet it says konzert. I love that song. In the begining there's 28 measures of rest? If that's so,..then i played it. I'll be SO glad to talk about it^_^

go see a mozart opera, then think about this piece, I have every student assign a character to each section. For ex., the opening G Maj statement is like the good guy riding in on a horse to begin our adventure, the next statement in E min is the villian, the next lyrical section back in D Maj is the gorgeous female lead, the clown enters at letter C, the large intervals following are the villian trying to get the female,mm 127-letter Dmm 149 are all the characters chasing each other around, our hero makes his triumphant return in mm 153.

and so on and so on...

have fun with it, it is a light piece, entertainment

Yea..you should do that. It was a fun piece^_^ you could always go to the library and get a CD of it.

try this, play the fast mvt like a slow mvt, and the slow mvt like a faster mvt, works every time

I just recieved the schedule for the competition and there are 13 people taking part in it. Out of the 13 people 5 of them have the last name "Chen" and they all play violin! LOL!

oh i'm done with it..i didn't do it at a SUPER fast tempo. it didn't sound right to me..and it was hard to put style when i played it super fast. So, i played it at 115. i dunno..what's the actual tempo?

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WHOA..i didn't do it at 115. That's the tempo i thought it sounded wAY TOO fast. i took it slower..it sounds panicky when i do it at 115. i don't like it. NOPE..

Yes, I am done with it too, but this will be my first time performing it with a pianist. I played it at an audition about a month ago and made the orchestra. At the audition I played it at 112, but for the competition I will most likely be playing it at 115.

Ah I missed this, what a shame..

I played this piece for my Grade 8 exam,so it has a fond place inmy heart! Just as an aside, since you've already played it, I would recommend the Emmanuel Pahud recording, it's the best I've heard. Just for interest..

The only thing that I remember from a judge when I played that piece at solo and ensemble was that she liked that I started my trills from above. What also helps is to know your background information. Do a little research on Mozart and on the Classical period. I would recommend "The Essential Cannon of Classical Music" by David Dubal. Wonderful reference book with a biography on more than 250 composers, and they're organized by time period. Be sure to also know what everything Italian written in the music means. It'll help with your performance, and it will also impress the judges. If asked what "Andante" means, the judges will be far more impressed if your answer is "a walking pace" instead of "Well, um...kinda slow, but not really."

Good luck, and have fun!

what do you mean when you said "started the trill from above". You mean a grace note then a trill? the grace note being one note higher? That's what my teacher said to do too,..if that's what you mean.^^
Don't you do that for every solo? i'm not sure..i think i've done that for all the trills in my solo...

traditionally in earlier music such as works by Bach, Telemann or Handel the trills are started from the note above and held longer, or leaned on more before beginning the trill. In Mozart one is normally taught to start the trill from above but not hold the upper note for as long.

AHHHhhhh..i see. I haven't played a lot of solos and all the solos i played was from teleman, bach and mozart. So that's probably why i thought in all solos trills start from a note above..played as a grace note. Now i see..
i need to play some modern flute solos..i always play really old pieces