The One Year Challenge: A Journey through the Classical Music Conservatory System

Hi everyone.


Or rather, I should say: Hello? Anyone out there at all?

No. No one is listening yet, but I hope that someone will start paying attention eventually. I've never blogged before, but I am tackling a project that I have realized is relatively unaddressed through the wide expanse of the world wide web. No one has ever blogged or vlogged into great detail about the process of preparing to enter a music conservatory.

I would have thought: surely by now someone would have done it. It's such a hard thing to achieve, being admitted into a competitive music school and all. It is such an in depth process and it literally requires you to determine the priorities in your life. In the movie August Rush, when the character says you have to love 'it' (meaning music) more than food, they weren't lying. So this is my objective for the next year and a half.

Who: Me. Adam. You've probably seen me post through several flute forums across the web.

What: My goal is to document every step along the way to admittance into an elite Graduate program in a top conservatory. This will include all of the challenges that I face both in and out of the practice room, little tricks to simplifying the process or getting that extra edge in the audition room, and ultimately the final verdict next spring: will I be accepted into a top school like Juilliard, New England Conservatory, Eastman, or USC?

When: The next year and a half.

Where: Here. Blogging from every corner of my life via my macbook pro. From the depths of a practice room, to the wide outdoors, this process WILL be unveiled to all who have no idea of how to get into a conservatory themselves.

I will write soon. I just need to decide how to start.... hmmm.... breakfast would be a good idea, and then practice.

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I play the flute, and I practice a lot. I am a student, and I am going to be graduating in Spring 2011. Only a year left until my Graduate School auditions, and I'm already focused (as you can see on my blog). I won the Concerto Competition at my University as a Sophomore, and have been Principal Flute in the Symphony Orchestra and Wind Ensemble since Spring of my Freshman year. I won the Josephine Walker American Music Competition in 2008, and a position in the All Collegiate Orchestra of the KMEA Conference in 2009. I won 2nd prize in the Kentucky Flute Festival Collegiate Artist Competition (against competitors from 7 states. I am the Piccoloist and Assistant Principal Flutist of the 2011 KMEA All Collegiate Symphony Orchestra. I have played in the masterclasses of Jean Ferrandis, Leone Buyse, Michel Debost, and Nina Perlove at various events such as the National Flute Association Convention, the Kentucky Flute Festival, and the Panoramic Flutist Summer Workshop.