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Tipping the Scales: Audition Insights

Feedback and tips to help you through the nail-biting experience of choral auditions

Katie Wanschura

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As the concert season wraps up and folks get ready for next year, auditions loom on the horizon. Maybe this year you are trying out for a different ensemble, one that requires an audition. Maybe this year you are going to try out for that elite chamber choir within your symphonic chorus. Maybe this year is the season you join a local contemporary a cappella or barbershop group. If you have never auditioned for this group or for any ensemble, what can you expect?

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