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Competitions, Districts, State, and Youth Ensembles

From now through January auditions will be looming! Districts and State auditions are just a few months away, many of the local Youth Ensembles such as Boston Youth Orchestra, MYWE (Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensemble), and others, usually have auditions around May. You may be a junior or senior and want to audition to be a music major or minor at your selected university.

This is the time to either begin lessons, establish a coaching session, or schedule an audition prep set of lessons.

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Email for scheduling availability as soon as possible. You deserve to have all the tools available to you for optimum performance.

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