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Attention Future Glendon Musical Ensemblers!!

Auditions for the 2011/2012 season will be held the September 21-23.

If you would like to book an audition, please e-mail gme@glendon.yorku.ca with the following information:

•  Name and contact information

•  Instrument(s) and/or vocal singing part that you will be auditioning with

•  Previous experience (if you have any)

If you are planning to audition both vocally and instrumentally, please specify so in the e-mail - we can audition you for both at the same time.

Before you book your audition, please ensure that you have read the Ensemble Expectations. Rehearsals are held on Thursday evenings from 6-8pm for instrumentalists and from 8-10pm for the choir: you must be free every week to attend rehearsal in order to be a member.

Audition Guidelines

Singers

•  You will be asked to sing O Canada. When you email us to schedule an audition time, we will email you back with a version of O Canada, and we ask you to learn your part (if you already know that you are an alto, tenor etc. please learn that respective line. Otherwise, just learn the melody). At your audition, you will sing this while an existing member of the GME sings another part of the song. This will test how well you can hold your own part, and how well you can blend.

•  Please prepare a short piece that you feel will present your talents well. If you require accompaniment, please provide your own for the audition. You may bring an audio CD. (Vocalists, if your accompaniment is on CD, it should not contain the vocal line.)

Instrumentalists

• You will be asked to play O Canada. It is up to you to find and learn a version of this song. (You do not have to provide a score, in case you play it by memory or by ear.)

• Please prepare a short piece that you feel will present your talents well. If you require accompaniment, please provide your own for the audition. You may bring an audio CD.

• We will ask you to sight-read some music with the assistance/accompaniment of current musical ensemble members, as well as do some rhythm exercises.

Looking forward to discovering all of the new talent,

The GME team!