It is a school in Toronto that is affiliated with Royal Conservatory of Music, and the program would be a two-year program.. The graduates would be considered professionals…. So my question is, do you think I have the skills to become a professional, based on the sample videos below
Thanks for any positive constructive criticismhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpMp3oN7a…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzzKb7Jn3…
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Do You Think I Have A Chance Of Getting Into The Glenn Gould School?
Posted on April 4, 2011.
I’m a little puzzled by your reference to a 2-year programme as the only Post-secondary programme that would seem to be your intended one, the Performance Diploma Programme (PDP) is given as a *four* year one, which makes a lot more sense in itself. (A 2-year one would normally be associated with a post graduate course, where a whole slew of fundamentals can be assumed known, knocking substantial chunks of time off the requirements.)http://www.rcmusic.ca/ContentPage.aspx?n…
As I’m not a prof. string player but a prof. pianist, I’ll leave any instrument specific matters for those qualified to address them. I have, however, wondered in general terms as a musician how long it may have been since you had regular, sustained interaction with a teacher? Having listened to a good few more than just the two clips you posted here, there seem to be a number of matters showing themselves in all performances you posted which an independent pair of ears, such as a teacher’s, would have picked up on and pointed out to you. (Your intonation can quite frequently be suspect, for example.) The very otherness of teachers makes them a perfect ‘conscience’ we can use and exploit to keep ourselves musically ‘honest’ which otherwise we can bamboozle ourselves into choosing ‘not to notice’. (Your internal clock not infrequently can run at variable speeds when it shouldn’t: a typical thing a good teacher will nag us with, much to our general chagrin. Similarly, there seem to be many more notes to your performance than there are phrases, another common bugbear where the bony finger of a teacher has perhaps been lacking a while.)
Your clips make it perfectly clear that you’re certainly not shy of applied work, nor do you lack courage — both *very* important qualities if you want to enter this profession. There’s also evident musical ability there or you would never have got as far as you have done. To gain entry to an institute of higher Arts education, however, one or two years of intense, applied preparatory work with a high quality teacher before seeking entry to the programme of your choice proper could well make the world of difference, offering the chance of a solid, fully grounded subsequent progress through a Diploma Programme at the end of those one or two years prep, enrolled at whatever institute you finally decide to plump for in the end.
After all, in these matters too, ‘only fools rush in where angels fear to tread’… 🙂
All the very best to you,
(and feel free to drop me a line in my mailbox if I’ve managed not to touch on something you wished I had, or anything else that crosses your mind subsequently.)