I really enjoyed myself today.. First time my friends actually do something for me... So touched..

The following audition materials are listed as guides (not requirements) in each major field. Applicants may also be asked to perform at sight a composition selected by the examination committee. Composition majors, in addition to submitting written materials, are expected to have a reasonable level of proficiency in a performance area and in music theory.


BRASS INSTRUMENTS

All instruments: Major and minor scales

Trumpet

Arban Trumpet Method or any of the Characteristic Studies

One of the following, all movements:

• a) Hummel Trumpet Concerto
  
• b) Haydn Trumpet Concerto
  
• c) Hindemith Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, or a solo of comparable difficulty
  

Two excerpts from the standard orchestral audition literature

Transpositions at sight

Requirements for Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music.... Train hard!!

A jack of all trades but a master of none. Am I really a jack of all trades?

Teachers can don't press so hard? Its like first day back from SYF and its chasing us for homework. Can you spare a thought for us? We train so hard into the night everyday. Reach home all sweaty and tired. All worried about SYF. How to complete homework? Unless you want us to work into the wee hours of the night and sleep in class the next day.

We are already stressed by the fact that we got a silver and all other aesthetic groups got gold. Stop stressing us with homework now. Give us time to catch up! Keep pressing us and I think we will breakdown sooner or later. Don't make Xinmin appear on the newspaper headlines - "Student commits suicide over school stress".

Disappointed but not sad... Feel pity but shed no tears... Feel anger, not hopelessness... Rouse that fighting spirit within you... The silver is but an illusion. All of you know your capabilities. They extend further than the constrains of a gold with honour award. Dream far. Dream big..

Woohoo!!! 10 days to SYF!! Yay! How exciting can this be!!

I'm sooooo excited about SYF!!!! The feel of playing in the Singapore Conference Hall in front of the judges and other schools. Wow!!! Its SOOOO fun!!!

I'm just so high now!!! Can't wait for SYF!!! = D