ClarinetFest Day 2
I didn't make it to any morning lectures or recitals, but I got a really good warm up in so I was feeling good. Quite a few folks didn't make the early morning events since everything was spread out a bit more than past festivals.
The Orchestral Audition Competition I was involved in took place at 1pm. The eight semi-finalist were: Kelly Coyle, Amy Glover, Erin Miesner, Randolph Palada, Jennifer Rucker, Sarah Todenhoft Demy (myself), Henry Caceres, and Emilio Borghesan. I went fifth out of eight. I felt that my performance overall was solid. I was happy with the way the Mozart exposition went and that my style was appropriate for each excerpt. My Mendelssohn Scherzo had a blip or two, which is not normal for me but has been a running trend in my past few auditions. I've been getting all the hard excerpts and making small mistakes on the easier ones. I think quite a bit of it is focus and being present in my playing. Out of the eight of us, the judges selected four finalist: Amy , Randolph, Emilio and myself.
Getting that out of the way, I was able to enjoy the rest of the afternoon at the recital in the main concert hall at CSUN, which consisted of performances by Burt Hara playing Muczynski's Time Pieces, Mark Nuccio playing Chromatic Fantasia for Solo Clarinet, and both playing Mendelssohn's Concert Piece No.1. That was the first half but I had to run out to grab dinner before the shuttle came to pick us up for the LA Phil concert at the Hollywood Bowl.
The program for the concert at the Hollywood Bowl ended up being is a slightly different order which was a ok with me. I was excited to hear Kari Kriikku play the Lindburg Concerto because I have yet to hear that work. Personally, I don't know if I will ever be able to do all the extended techniques Kari did. He was out of this world. The cadenza was my favorite part because it is completely ad lib, which was amazing!
Paul Meyer performed the Copland Concerto, which sadly I didn't enjoy was much as I thought I would. He was so lyrical in the slow section and his style overall was very characteristic of Copland but once he got to the cadenza, he clearly couldn't tongue. It just kind of ruined the latter half of the piece for me.
The LA Phil was quite nice to listen to as they performed the Maskarade Overture by Nielsen and Appalachian Springs by Copland. It was really something to hear them at the Hollywood Bowl and I loved the cool weather by mid-concert! I wish it cooled off like that in Texas!
The Orchestral Audition Competition I was involved in took place at 1pm. The eight semi-finalist were: Kelly Coyle, Amy Glover, Erin Miesner, Randolph Palada, Jennifer Rucker, Sarah Todenhoft Demy (myself), Henry Caceres, and Emilio Borghesan. I went fifth out of eight. I felt that my performance overall was solid. I was happy with the way the Mozart exposition went and that my style was appropriate for each excerpt. My Mendelssohn Scherzo had a blip or two, which is not normal for me but has been a running trend in my past few auditions. I've been getting all the hard excerpts and making small mistakes on the easier ones. I think quite a bit of it is focus and being present in my playing. Out of the eight of us, the judges selected four finalist: Amy , Randolph, Emilio and myself.
Getting that out of the way, I was able to enjoy the rest of the afternoon at the recital in the main concert hall at CSUN, which consisted of performances by Burt Hara playing Muczynski's Time Pieces, Mark Nuccio playing Chromatic Fantasia for Solo Clarinet, and both playing Mendelssohn's Concert Piece No.1. That was the first half but I had to run out to grab dinner before the shuttle came to pick us up for the LA Phil concert at the Hollywood Bowl.
The program for the concert at the Hollywood Bowl ended up being is a slightly different order which was a ok with me. I was excited to hear Kari Kriikku play the Lindburg Concerto because I have yet to hear that work. Personally, I don't know if I will ever be able to do all the extended techniques Kari did. He was out of this world. The cadenza was my favorite part because it is completely ad lib, which was amazing!
Paul Meyer performed the Copland Concerto, which sadly I didn't enjoy was much as I thought I would. He was so lyrical in the slow section and his style overall was very characteristic of Copland but once he got to the cadenza, he clearly couldn't tongue. It just kind of ruined the latter half of the piece for me.
The LA Phil was quite nice to listen to as they performed the Maskarade Overture by Nielsen and Appalachian Springs by Copland. It was really something to hear them at the Hollywood Bowl and I loved the cool weather by mid-concert! I wish it cooled off like that in Texas!