I am sooooo jealous you get to go to Paris! You should feel lucky instead of annoyed! Your chosen pieces sound good. I haven`t heard of all of them, but I`m sure that you`ve mastered them and will blow everyone away! I`m playing solo excerpts from Rimsky-Korsakov`s Capriccio Espagnol, Beethoven`s 8 (easy!), the entire Mozart, Poulenc, Weber`s 1 and 2, and maybe Weber Quintet. I thought about doing Debussy but I only scheduled this audition recently so I wanted to be able to work on Rimsky and Mozart the most. This isn`t the only audition I have to do either! I have concerto auditions this Sun (Mozart - they wouldn`t let me do Copland :P) and a bunch of little things like teaching, chamber music and orchestra music to play. Its funny cuz i`m generally a high strung person but I`m actually enjoying this. Spending up to 6 hours a day practicing and being away from home all day either at a lesson, rehearsal or performance/audition. I guess that could be blamed on my obsession with classical music. Is there alot of clarinetists like that you think? And You never said if you`re graduating this year or not!

Rachel if you have AIM my screen name is brycon424 we can chat if you`d like. Also, I recorded myself for fun you could give me some pointers

Hey Bryan,
I don`t have aim and I`m sorry it took me so long to reply (I went to bed). I can chat at a public chat room if you`d like...tonight? And I`d love to hear your recording! You can send it to my email address if want to. All you have to do is click on my name above replies.

Good luck you two. I know someone who auditioned at Paris. She was amazing(a Neidich student in fact). She told me what a bugger it was. Good luck though. I remember my college audition days. As far as scales, I think that IU was the only school to ask for scales. I surely had the deer in headlight look when Klug said play an f minor melodic three octaves!

BHood

How did you friend do at Paris? Was she auditioning as an undergraduate or for the cycle de perfectionnement? What year did she audition?

Sorry...I don`t recall. No, she did not get accepted. She was one of the top students at CIM, left to become one of the top clarinetists at Juilliard, and went on to USC for a masters. She plays professionally now, having been principal with a midsize orchestra. This had to have happened in the mid to late 90s.