I am officially a professional chorister!!!
I guess I sort of already was a professional chorister with the church job, but I've finally landed my first professional choir gig!!!!!!!
At the beginning of the month I traveled to Kansas City to audition for the Kansas City Chorale. I took this audition for many reasons.
-I feel that when you fail an audition, it's closing a door. KC Chorale is so good, and regionally far, that closing that door would be closing a door I might not otherwise utilize or have expectations of succeeding with.
-An audition for a choir that good would actually get me off my butt to prepare
-Finally, hey, I could make it and I'd start a new chapter of my life in Kansas City, Missori with a fresh start.
I went. I auditioned. They loved me. Charles Bruffy was so easy to talk to and so encouraging. He was tickled that I went all that way to audition for HIM. Like, really, Charles Bruffy? Grammy award winner?! YOU are tickled that I am here?
He told me I have a great career ahead of me.
And I didn't get in.
Probably the most worthwhile and best-feeling failure of my life.
Ok, not really a failure at all.
My friend Kyle, a couple weeks later, told me I should contact the director of Texas Voices. Not the best paying professional gig ever, but a paying professional gig nonetheless, and a good and easy director to work for. They may not have openings, but to get on a sub list would be a good step.
I emailed. Yes, his soprano section was full, but yes, he'd be interested in hearing me for a sub list.
I go. I sing the pieces I sang in Kansas City. I sight read, do pitch patterns, and vocalises. He warms me up to an Eb and doesn't even hit the top of my range before he stops.
Yes, his soprano section is full, but my voice is "so good I don't want to pass you up".
SWEET, SWEET VALIDATION.
My real life gets to start now.
At the beginning of the month I traveled to Kansas City to audition for the Kansas City Chorale. I took this audition for many reasons.
-I feel that when you fail an audition, it's closing a door. KC Chorale is so good, and regionally far, that closing that door would be closing a door I might not otherwise utilize or have expectations of succeeding with.
-An audition for a choir that good would actually get me off my butt to prepare
-Finally, hey, I could make it and I'd start a new chapter of my life in Kansas City, Missori with a fresh start.
I went. I auditioned. They loved me. Charles Bruffy was so easy to talk to and so encouraging. He was tickled that I went all that way to audition for HIM. Like, really, Charles Bruffy? Grammy award winner?! YOU are tickled that I am here?
He told me I have a great career ahead of me.
And I didn't get in.
Probably the most worthwhile and best-feeling failure of my life.
Ok, not really a failure at all.
My friend Kyle, a couple weeks later, told me I should contact the director of Texas Voices. Not the best paying professional gig ever, but a paying professional gig nonetheless, and a good and easy director to work for. They may not have openings, but to get on a sub list would be a good step.
I emailed. Yes, his soprano section was full, but yes, he'd be interested in hearing me for a sub list.
I go. I sing the pieces I sang in Kansas City. I sight read, do pitch patterns, and vocalises. He warms me up to an Eb and doesn't even hit the top of my range before he stops.
Yes, his soprano section is full, but my voice is "so good I don't want to pass you up".
SWEET, SWEET VALIDATION.
My real life gets to start now.