General
Audition for the 2010 season
Auditions for NYCA 2010 are now open! Selection is by recorded audition and confidential conductor’s reference. The closing date for auditions is 31 March 2010.
Music will be sent out to season members following the close of auditions.
All singers, including past NYCA members, must audition prior to being accepted into the 2010 season.
How to audition
- Download the application form in Word document or PDF format
- Download the referee pro forma in Word document or PDF format
- Fill in the application form electronically (you will need Microsoft Word or OpenOffice to use the Word documents).
- Give the referee pro forma to your chosen referee and ask them to complete and submit it
- Prepare a song of your own choice and the set audition excerpt
- As instructed on the application form, record yourself singing unaccompanied
- a short, lyrical song of your choice
- a major scale (ascending and descending more than one octave) that clearly demonstrates your effective range
- the prepared exercise
- send the recording in MP3 or MP4 format only, along with your completed application form, to audition@nyca.org.au. If you have trouble e-mailing your audio recording due to the size of the file(s), you may use a file upload service like MegaUpload and forward the download link in your e-mail.
All auditions received will be acknowledged. If you do not receive acknowledgement within one week, please contact us.
We know this is a challenging exercise and hope you will spend some time preparing it - we’re keen to see how well you can manage this type of chromatic melody. The exercise is not an indicator of the type of repertoire you will sing with NYCA; it simply gives us a good picture of your intonation and aural skills. Even if you don’t sing right to the end, have a go and show us what you can do.
Audition Assistance: Although all auditions are by email submission, we are able to assist with audition recording if you are genuinely unable to arrange this yourself. An audition recording session will be held in most Australian capital cities in late March - Please note that you must book in advance for these sessions as they will only run if there are definite bookings. To book, e-mail the NYCA administrator. Dates and locations of recording sessions are listed here (also available as a Word document)
If you’re genuinely unable to e-mail your application form and recording, your audition will be accepted by snail mail - see the contact page for our address. We recommend that you send us a follow-up e-mail so that we know your audition is on its way to us.
Contact
All audition enquiries should be sent to: audition@nyca.org.au
Mailing List
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Alumni
NYCA’s next alumni season will be held in 2011. Information about participating will be posted here as soon as it’s available, and can also be obtained from the National Youth Choir of Australia Facebook Group for current, past and and future choir members.
