I have an audition on Saturday. I am getting kind of ridiculously excited about it. I also have not played much in the past year and may be deluding myself into thinking I can get the first page or two of the Ibert back up to scruff. Then again, I worked on that piece for SO LONG that it's coming back into my (somewhat uncoordinated) fingers pretty ( Read more... )

Well, I survived my first retail inventory at the MFA yesterday. Barely. My boss had told me the outside people who come in to do it with us were really stupid, but I wasn't prepared for exactly how stupid. One was a new employee and didn't know what she was doing, two didn't show up at all (at 10am replacements showed up...when we were supposed to ( Read more... )

Well, I graduated. I moved back to Boston. A week later, I was back in Montreal. Today, I'm back home, missing it ( Read more... )

So the CRAAAAZIEST thing happened today. I got a call from Geoff McCausland. His mom plays 2nd flute in Sympony New Brunswick, and their first flutist cancelled at the last moment ( Read more... )

Last Thursday was an absolutely beautiful day. The perfect day to have my very last exam, to be completely finished with my BMus. The weather has been fairly consistently beautiful since then, and the past few days have been fabulous. The weekend was filled with old and new friends, parties, amazing recitals, and one hell of a time dancing to Twist ( Read more... )

I'm one Jazz History exam away from being done with my undergrad degree. I've attended my final classes, performed in my final ensemble concerts, handed in my final orchestration assignment, and given my final recital...all that's holding me back from taking that step over the finish line is one exam. And then...sono finito! It's like I'm about to ( Read more... )

It was really good to go home for the weekend. It gave me a chance to talk to my parents, my relatives, etc. and to let the dust settle from the past week. My teacher and I talked on Friday, about how she thinks I can make it in music because I'm so stubborn and driven, but we both agreed that I'll need to do something else to put food on the table ( Read more... )

Well, the tally stands thus for grad school applications ( Read more... )

Got an email from Cincinnati College-Conservatory this evening. Made it past their prescreening round as well. Yay ( Read more... )

So I had an audition for the OSJM (Orchestre Symphonique des Jeunes de Montreal....Montreal Youth Symphony) yesterday. I thought it was a bit odd that they'd put a PICCOLO audition at 8:30 in the morning, but I figured they'd run out of slots and had to do it, so I went with it ( Read more... )