Cello Fellow
2020 BRITT FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
July 28 - August 16
Deadline: February 15, 2020
To apply:
- Provide a current CV.
- Provide a single page cover letter outlining the reasons for your interest in and readiness for this program. Please address the following questions:
- What are your personal and professional goals as an artist?
- What role does the contemporary musician play in the community both as a musician and as a teaching artist?
- Provide at least 2 letters of recommendation from a professor or private instructor.
- Provide electronic recording as an mp3 file, or video as follows:
Recordings will be evaluated through a blind screening process.
(IMPORTANT: Please record the exact excerpts on separate tracks—music for the orchestra excerpts is available upon request)- I. Solo
Any solo work (concerto, sonata, or solo); exposition only - II. Excerpts from the following works
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, 2nd mvt
- m. 1 – downbeat of m. 10
- m. 49 – downbeat of m. 59
- m. 98 – downbeat of m. 106 - R. Strauss: Don Juan, mm. 1 – 4 m. before ‘D’
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, 2nd mvt
- Create individual tracks for each required excerpt.
- Label your sound files using the excerpt titles provided:
Example “Violin, Smith, Rebecca, Mozart Concerto, 1st movement, exposition.”
- I. Solo
- Send all materials to education@brittfest.org. Electronic submissions only. Your inquiry will be acknowledged.