It’s always nice to discover a great new blog. I follow quite a few (and not all musical . . . hey, I have other interests, too!) and it’s fun to find one with some fresh ideas. J.D. Frizell is a candidate for the DMA at the University of Kentucky and Director of Fine […]
Auditions V – What do you prioritize?
After the long audition process you’ve gone through (well, long enough, anyway!), you have to make decisions as to who’s in your choir(s). Difficult choices will always be a part of this if you have an auditioned choir. What do you prioritize? How do you make these choices? The comments here are for those […]
Auditioning Singers IV – group auditions/recalls
For many of us with advanced choirs, a group recall audition by section is an important part of the selection process. It's a possible next step after the individual auditions, which can serve several purposes: a chance to compare voices that you may have heard over several days (we just heard around 200 singers in […]
Auditioning Singers III – Musicianship/Ear
Another thing to test for in an audition is musicianship: sightreading and ear skills, primarily. There are several things to test: sightreading pitches sightreading rhythms the ability of the singer to hear something and reproduce it vocally Given the level of your singers, you will want to choose examples to read that start with […]
Auditioning Singers II – Vocal Ability
I should have mentioned that I blogged earlier (on my personal blog) about auditioning. You can find the links here: First post Second post Third post Fourth post I'll do some repetition, of course, but this series will be organized differently. We'll start with figuring out as much as possible about the vocal […]
Auditioning Singers I
We're baaack! Hope you've had a good summer break! If you missed the end of my intonation series last spring, I'll post links at the end of this blog. Auditions are something most of us do to evaluate potential singers for our choirs. Some do it in the spring, some in the late […]