Conservatory Piano Audition Program
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- čas přidán 3. 08. 2024
- This is the program I prepared for my application at several conservatories. I recorded them with my phone on more or less tuned practice room pianos, so excuse the bad audio quality!
0:00 Title
Alexander Skrjabin op.32
0:08 Poème 1
3:30 Poème 2
J.S. Bach BWV 847
5:02 Prelude
6:36 Fugue
Béla Bartók op.8b/1
8:19 Elegy
L.v. Beethoven Sonata op.2/1
15:59 Movement 1
19:38 Movement 2
25:31 Movement 3
28:36 Movement 4
Sergei Prokofiev op.2/4
32:56 Etude
For anyone interested, I got in!!
My dream is to study at a conservatory, seeing this video is very reinforcing for me because i have never really known the exact standards that you need to be to get into one
im glad that im able to help :) although it was quite lucky, that I got in. I was fortunate with the excerpts I had to play. there are many more able pianists who might end up not being accepted. there is always chance involved unfortunately. also different conservatories have very different criteria!
I once studied at one. If and when you make it - it's very dreamlike at first but you'll soon wake up and see a business just like any other field. Good luck. Keep us posted.
if you look at the website of any conservatory audition requirements should be listed
The requirements are diff for each.
I got accepted into pre-bachelor this year. I had decided in November I wanted to try for auditions in June so I was very late. I played bare minimum in terms of difficulty but my teacher spent so much time perfecting it. It really helps if you go on trial lessons at the conservatory so the teachers and the people examining already know you a little
The fugue is extremely well put together. You considered each voice. So wonderful.
I came to the comments section also to commend in particular his performance of the C minor fugue. Fantastic! You GET it! And (in my opinion, because I know opinions vary) you used the PERFECT amount of rubato!
Congratulations! So deserved. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Great program and great playing!
Great program and great playing, congratulations 👏👏👏 Hope you get to join your dream conservatory!
Congratulations on getting in!!
Great program, nice playing. Keep going!
Congratulations and thank you for sharing your beautiful performances
It feels so nice to have (one of) the best Beethoven Sonata !!!
Congrats, great playing. :)
Beautiful😊🥰
Great choose of works. I am currebtly lerning a program for my conservatory in cordoba to bachelor's degree. Schuebrt sonata in a minor, chopin octaves etude, rachmaninof op 39 no 2, the same scriabin piece, and villalobos bachiana no 4 prelude. Didnt knew bartok elegie , is really insane
Very wonderful 4th movement!
Akkurat, Enthusiast! Herzlichen Glückwunsch erstmal!
danke dir! werde tatsächlich Klavier und Komposition als Doppelstudium studieren können. freue mich schon sehr darauf!
@@naphtanaptha nice ein deutscher. wo hast du dich beworben? wollte mich nächstes jahr auch bewerben. musstest du eig. auch etwas vom blatt spielen, wenn ja was wars?
habe mich an ein paar Städten beworben, Bremen, hamburg, Detmold etc. auch für Komposition. in hamburg musste ich vom Blatt spielen, etwas leichtes von Schumann, ansonsten nirgends. viel glück nächstes jahr!
omg ! my favourite youtuber watches the same content I do
Congrats on getting into a conservatory!
Nice playing! One of my students also going to play Beethoven op2 no 1 I'll definitely recommend him your rendition especially for the first movement
good luck to him!
wonderful
you play well congrads!
really good playing of bach!
Beautiful Scriabin
Love the first poem, my favorite. Horowitz’s interpretation is lovely
And nice fugue!
Your Scriabin is superb. SO many pianists make him sound aimless, and also as if they play him to show off their technical prowess. (Spare me! LOL)
This was MUSIC. 😊
P. S. For Bach, be sure to listen to Tatiana Nikolayeva. Her interpretations are too often overlooked.
thanks a lot! also for the recommendation. I know of nikolayeva but have never properly listened so thank you :)
Your beethoven is great! the first poeme is played with so much thoroughness, i wish i could play like you!
I like your Scriabin a lot
The wonderful care you took in the 4th movement could have been applied to the Scriabin and the Bartok. The Beethovenian way of how you treat the melody can be applied to all the other pieces. The Prokofiev was very well done. Excellent!
thank you for your attentive listening and feedback!
Really like the 4th movement from the 1st sonata. It’s less “polished” than a recording from the likes of Brendel but that also gives it some special visceral energy.
Pretty great! The Bach prelude was a little harsh in the beginning, though. Was your phone on the piano when recording?
for me j remember Chopin op35-2 first mvt , Czerny Toccata op92 , Debussy Terrasse des Audiences , Bach Prelude- Fugue , Chopin Cto N-1 first mvt ( exam Conservatory 1960 )
Nice voicing at 01:45
Was this Scriabin composition the inspiration for ur deux Poemes? Theyre legit hype, signature Scriabin texture in the second one lol
Thank you! A bit, but only conceptually, not musically.
@@naphtanapthasure I see that now :)
Also I'm learning that Beethoven sonata rn as well 😊
Good luck with it! Last movement is a beast.
Great program- especially loved the Beethoven. Do u mind if i ask where u got accepted?
thank you :) I got accepted in Bremen, Germany
It’s beautiful!! I wonder though did you mean to take the 4th movement of the Beethoven so fast? I’m a violinist and I try to imagine myself playing the top lines but is v difficult with the tempi you took. (You can ignore this if you want) in the first movement I feel like you can make some of the notes sing more too in the melody’s because some of the notes feels uneven and cut off. This is just from my point as violinist u can ignore lol. 2nd and 3rd movements I loved the tempi
I think the problem is with my technique. I do like the tempo I chose and I think it can work very well if you can pull it off and play cleanly. I did my best to do so but with the current level im at (and after playing the rest of the sonata before in the take) this is the best I got. thank you for your critique though! (for example Igor levit plays it at a similar tempo and much more controlled of course. even better: friedrich gulda)
where did you apply and where'd you end up choosing to go?
I applied in several German cities. im gonna be studying composition and piano in Bremen
Ich mache zwar erst das Abi, trotzdem interessant zu sehen wie dein Programm aussah.
Gibt es Konservatorien überhaupt noch?
Heisst das nicht Musikhochschule heutzutage?
Wenn ich dann dran bin mit der Aufnahme Prüfung, was denkst du von einer Ligeti Etüde? (Wahrscheinlich Fanfares oder Cordes à vide) Oder was für eine Sonate würdest du empfehlen?
ja ich glaube auf deutsch nur noch Hochschule, aber auf english heißt es soweit ich weiß noch so?
ich denke dein Programm kannst am besten du selbst aussuchen, aber wenn du ligeti Etüden sauber spielen kannst hast du denk ich nichts zu befürchten :) Der einzige tipp den ich hätte ist spiel keine zu bekannten werke außer du bist dir wirklich sicher dass du dich mit deiner interpretation abheben kannst von anderen die das gleiche spielen. klar, Chopin 10/12 zu spielen oder 10/4 (zum beispiel) ist super aber damit rauszustechen zwischen 10 Leuten die das auch spielen ist viel schwerer als wenn du etwas außergewöhnliches vorbereitest. da ist ligeti schon super glaub ich
The Scriabin piece was the type in my ABRSM exams that I would ignore lol. It would be the C option lol
The Beethoven pieces ❤
Beethoven = God.
Which conservatoire are you going to? My audition programme was Mendelssohn - Rondo Capriccioso, Bach - Chromatic Fantasie and Fugue and Beethoven - Waldstein (1st movement) and I got into where I applied as well. Fantastic playing!
in Bremen, Germany. congratulations to you!
@@naphtanaptha oh how brilliant! many congratulations!
nice! i wonder if there's an age limit on trying to get in and studying in conservatory 😅
You always slam down on the down beat! Consider the whole phrase!
I’m confused, you’re playing at the level expected at the end of an undergrad music degree. This is your application?
thanks! im not too sure how it is in the states but I think in Europe the application standard is frustratingly high (and very excluding). I was very fortunate with the excerpts I played in the audition and was lucky to have gotten in with where im at.
How is it possible to enter a conservatory with only audio recordings?! Everywhere I have seen, the strict requirements are videos for self-explanatory reasons. Congrats on getting in!
And that is only for preliminary round xD then live round comes...
these are just recordings I made for my own improvement and practice about a month out of the auditions. I did play live auditions!
@@naphtanaptha Ah okay! But you had pre-selection video or not?
@@nikolaydimitrov2150 yes I had to send in some video excerpts
@@naphtanaptha Great! You also played awesome! Congrats for getting in!
Ist es schwer in Komposition reinzukommen? Und kann man das auch alleine studieren? Oder ist das berufstechnisch unlogisch? Lg
kann man auf jeden fall allein studieren. ob es schwer ist kann ich nicht so gut einschätzen. ich komponiere und beschäftige mich mit Theorie seit ca 1,5 jähren sehr intensiv im Selbststudium. das hat bei mir gereicht. dazu musst du auch eine Klavier Nebenfach und Gehörbildungsprüfung bestehen, aber beides in der Regel nicht mit zu hohen Anforderungen (in Deutschland zumindest).
@@naphtanaptha okay vielen Dank!
how old are you? and is it possible to share the name of the conservatory just to get a relative view of the level required for this type of institution?
I already mentioned a few times in other responses. I got in at hfmt in Hamburg and hfk in Bremen.
Not easy playing in a piano of suboptimal condition or recording an entire session, great job! Hope you don’t mind if I shared some thoughts on what I’m hearing. I didn’t get a chance to listen through every piece. Overall you have some good ideas of what you’re trying to do and good tones. I would think about the competitiveness of some of the choices however, the Bach and Beethoven you picked are all more on the ‘elementary’ levels so you will be judged harsher on perfection so keep that in mind. For the fugue I would refrain from rubato expressions (the prelude is okay to use some rubato) but having rubato or anything that disrupts the pulse of the music can also disrupt the presentation of the subjects when they come in. Structure is extremely important here. Overall there’s a feeling the left hand can be more subdued throughout all the pieces at moments. The 1st Scriabin can sound a bit dry at times, this isn’t purely pedaling, could try to finger pedal more and legato involves transferring of weight between fingers rather than pure finger work.
thanks for your insights!
Which conservatory? Hoow long was the audition? Did they let you finish any of the pieces? I know you prepare 5 pieces and they don't let you finish any of them. Auditions can be 15 to 50 minutes. Mine was 20 minutes long, them comes meeting the faculty and making conversation. The are just taking the measur of you. You might have a theory test. It's nerve wreaking amd even thou they say they will let you know, by the time you leave, you already know if you've been accepted or not. It's a completely different world. Very demanding and strict.
mainly bremen and Hamburg in germany. auditions where about 10 minutes, I played skrjabin 1 and Beethoven 4 in full in one of them, and some pf skrjabin, Beethoven and Bartok in the other.
🎉 congrats man.
Do you plan on becoming a concert pianist?
Thanks! No, not really. I will be studying piano as well as composition any my personal focus is rather on the latter. I can't really see myself touring playing concerts (not to speak of the difficulty of actually being able to).
@@naphtanaptha Wish all the best for you in composition then.
Just show your CZcams channel and you'll get a degree without even going through it.
I think you're playing Prestissimo a bit too fast. Might be because of garbage quality of training room pianos but the entry themes with Fm are very blurred. At times I'm confused whether it's just out of tune or you're playing wrong notes. I guess there was a memory slip at 29:35, right? Interesting choice for conservatory repertoire though.
To which conservatories did you apply (if we can know)?
mainly Hamburg, Bremen, Detmold and Lübeck (all in germany)
@@naphtanaptha Thank you. Did you get accepted? Btw, congratulations, you played good.
@@d_rivadeneyra yes I did :) thanks!
@@naphtanaptha Congratulations!!
opinions on jazz and other world music????
I love jazz and haven't listened to too much world music (nor do I know what exactly it is) but what ive gotten to know under that name wasn't my cup of tea.
Did you get accepted? :)
yes I did :) for composition too!
@@naphtanaptha Congrats 😃
thank you thank you :)
I am giving a like for Good Success, as you are correct, your phone, and probably the piano did not make justice to your quality as a musician and an interpret.. Cheers!
Great playing, but as I've played and listened to the first and fourth mvts too many times, the fourth seems a little too fast and the texture the left hand is making is a little as if it's little triplet groups like in the first mvt. Idk about this edition, but I've always thought that they need to be more legato, like much more stable runs. The middle section is also really well played but might be a little too rushed. I'd say in general that there are 2 characters having a debate, and the first character immediately gets furious, then the second tries to calm him down and it goes on. Basically what I'm getting at is to voice the "characters" in a little more different tempo (slight changes bc otherwise it'll mess everything up) and a generally much more contrasting voicing. Btw sorry for the yap session
no problem :) thank you for your thoughts!
Bach prelude was very muffled in the beginning.
even skriabin sounds badly when an E is out of tune😂
The Scriabin ‘colour’ and expression is very well played.
Your sense of tempo is probably a bit too ‘wishy-washy’ in general.
Also there are many times where the left hand ‘anticipates’ the right hand. The technique (asynchrony!?) is quite common in romantic music but it’s too overused here.
Also in the rubato around 2:48 you got a bit faster randomly. Surely the tenuto’s and the rubato mean to slow down to build to the top A#.
Nevertheless it was extremely expressive but should be just a bit more reliable in terms of tempo/togetherness. Good luck
thank you :) I know, tempo is definitely something to work on for me.
is your teacher russian?
one of my teachers is ukranian
@@naphtanapthame too. Online teacher or in person?
@@marse7092 in person luckily. I don't think online lessons would work too well for me
@@naphtanaptha I used to think that way too, but I love my online lessons!
Schnabel like staccatos. Too rush but in the slow passages beautiful sounds.
Poèmes, not poémes.
whoops!
Sorry but your Bach is completely wrong. The composer wrote Presto and you kept the initial tempo. It's obvious you can't play faster on the presto passage, so you should play slower on the first section.
Heyo! Just went and looked at the manuscript and I don’t see the word presto on there once.
Just a heads up that most Bach editions are heavily edited by “scholars.”
that's my info as well. Bach never writes such things in his score.
@@naphtanaptha I wanted to double check incase it was one of those like 6 times he wrote something in
yeah thanks, always good to do the research :)
You have a legitimate heart aspect of Scriabin. Lucky you. But your style in louder passages can be a bit tyrannical. Scriabin is commanding not tyrannical. In general you sound tyrannical. Do you actually like the piano? The emotional onset is interesting. I wish we could talk more about the psychology of your playing
commanding but not tyrannical is actually a very helpful image. thanks!
@@naphtanaptha 🥰
Or maybe it is that you take tyranny too far at times? Composers, artists, have the right to express the range of emotion and expression of the human condition. But a dominating frequency of tyranny within one's musical expression seems counterproductive. The point is that I don't feel the underlying mental state that expresses itself in your playing will give you the most amount of return. Because others hear this on a subconscious level
very well executed. Excpept, i cannot understand why you have chosen Scriabine 2 poems.... not easy to impress the auditors.
What is your opinion on whatismusic123
their banned on my channel. I think that says it all. they're a troll and try to discourage as many people as they can for whatever reason.
guy sucks...
at life
@@naphtanaptha I wish CZcams had a general ban button like Facebook. I've grown so tired of seeing that narrow minded thing's negative comments everywhere. Awesome Scriabin here btw.
Who tf is whatismusic123
@@ultimateconstruction I have the exact same question 😂, I tried Google them but didn't find anything solid, just some random mentions and in one of them someone claimed Brahms was the best composer ever and they didn't accept more comments 😂😂