College Audition Coaching

I am a specialist committed to engaging with and empowering you as you go through the process of preparing and auditioning for schools. Where private lessons are concerned with your holistic growth, audition coaching is a specialized service that helps you get prepared, stay organized, and bring your best self to the audition room (and video).

Expert Help

• Advise and guide 11th & 12th grade students on the audition process
• One- and two-year planning schedules
• Skills assessment and goal setting
• Schools evaluation
• Audition requirements and repertoire assessment
• Repertoire selection assistance
• Navigate prescreens and pre-qualifications
• Manage the audition timelines
• Prescreen and live audition evaluation
• Mock audition and review
• Interview prep
• Organizational tools

Services

M.M., Manhattan School of Music (Jazz Studies)
Member, NYSACAC

Compassionate and collaborative help from an experienced teacher, mentor, and coach who has been helping students realize their maximum potential for 25 years. I have been on both sides of the audition table, and know what can make an adjudicator’s decision an easy one. I am very familiar with the pressures students and families experience with applying to and auditioning for music schools, and my aim is to reduce the stress of the audition process and make it more predictable, and even enjoyable.

Experienced Consultant

Mission

Helping students bring their best selves to the audition room, giving them the best chance of getting into their choice of schools.

Engaging the student in identifying their personal strengths, goals, and areas of development through a process of self-evaluation and self-reflection that will serve them beyond the college audition process. Informing students and parents of college practices and cultures that will empower their choices and enhance positive outcomes. Expanding the impact of students’ efforts by optimizing repertoire prep and selection.

Vision

Ready to bring your best self to your auditions?

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Testimonials

  • Bruce - piano

    Dan’s teaching is remarkably interactive and reflective… Dan is inclined to ask questions that prompt members to engage in critical and reflective thinking. The result is an inquisitive and focused ensemble whose members make a habit of thinking for themselves.

  • Guido - clarinet

    New exercises to grow or to maintain a level of technical facility on my instruments. The tools used in the musical technique are consistently useful… Hearing straight from the professional and their insights are always invaluable.

  • Ken - guitar

    Dan pulls all of the necessary threads together to weave together a beautiful musical experience – one that’s fun, educational, spirited and sounds great!

  • Lynn - saxophone

    I really enjoyed the visual representation of space & time... I found it to be a great mental image for the space that exists before and after a downbeat, and I am applying it to my own playing.

  • Bruce - piano

    Day after day I depart the ensemble with food for thought about how jazz works and how to play it better.

  • Isamu - saxophone

    The concept and ideas explored in the clinic were incredibly unique and presented in a way that was knew to me. The masterclass reminded me that I can always further deepen my listening.

  • Lynn - saxophone

    I really loved how Dan combined inquiry-based learning with the playing of a real instrument; I don't see that happen all that much, and I think it's a necessary union.

  • Guido - clarinet

    Very cool, and very humbling. You find interesting things, illuminating different parts of your playing.

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