Curtis

[ladychopin]

Hi, I have just started to learn with a new teacher that learned at Curtis
What do you know about that place? (tell me everything!)

[49410enrique]

if piano had mount olympus, the keyboard deities that reign from it would call curtis home.

in other words it's on a whole other level. mere mortals do not actually attend curtis, those hand picked by the gods  and designated as demigods themselves run around up there. lots of incredible piano shinanigans going on there. really incredible.


in other words (as a pianist friend of mine told me once), you try to get into curtis; eastman, peabody, juliard, etc. is for all the kids that didn't get in.

[the_technicalman]

if piano had mount olympus, the keyboard deities that reign from it would call curtis home.

Please don't listen to this. Curtis is the hardest campus to gain residency on, due to it's size - philosophy, funding, environment - but that in no way makes it the college in which applicants favor above all others. If there was any place to which you could recognize as the symbiotic 'home' of the art of piano performance it is Moscow conservatoire, from which have come the most great concert pianists, and at which claims the most technically and musically gifted students of any conservatoire on the globe.
Julliard and Curtis can be said to be equally matched for the quality of the pianists they churn out, and their respective staffs are equally acclaimed, they just sport different musical attitudes. Curtis could definitely be said to be the campus most focused on musical imagination.

[49410enrique]

Please don't listen to this. Curtis is the hardest campus to gain residency on, due to it's size - philosophy, funding, environment - but that in no way makes it the college in which applicants favor above all others. If there was any place to which you could recognize as the symbiotic 'home' of the art of piano performance it is Moscow conservatoire, from which have come the most great concert pianists, and at which claims the most technically and musically gifted students of any conservatoire on the globe.
Julliard and Curtis can be said to be equally matched for the quality of the pianists they churn out, and their respective staffs are equally acclaimed, they just sport different musical attitudes. Curtis could definitely be said to be the campus most focused on musical imagination.

dude i was just kidding.hence the mythology. and the joke about some very good schools...
you made good points and all but im just clarifying in case people start a pissing match about which school is better and such.

[ladychopin]

Please don't listen to this. Curtis is the hardest campus to gain residency on, due to it's size - philosophy, funding, environment - but that in no way makes it the college in which applicants favor above all others. If there was any place to which you could recognize as the symbiotic 'home' of the art of piano performance it is Moscow conservatoire, from which have come the most great concert pianists, and at which claims the most technically and musically gifted students of any conservatoire on the globe.
Julliard and Curtis can be said to be equally matched for the quality of the pianists they churn out, and their respective staffs are equally acclaimed, they just sport different musical attitudes. Curtis could definitely be said to be the campus most focused on musical imagination.

can you explain this? " Curtis could definitely be said to be the campus most focused on musical imagination."

I would like in the future to applay there... (as well to other schools)

[rachmaninoff_forever]

It has a 3.2% acceptance rate.  So 96.8% of the people applying there are feeling extra salty!  

It used to be that you can't audition; you have to be invited.  But now I think there's a law that ban invitation only schools.  But that didn't really change anything.  It's still REALLY invitation only, they now just have to go through the formality of actually auditioning...  Which is basically a full blown concert for the Jurys.  It's really ugly.  They already pick out their students before the application process even starts.  And if you think having a 4.0 GPA and a 36 on your ACT will help you, you have another thing coming.  They don't care about grades.  If your schools sends them your transcript, they'll probably put it in the shredder.  Admissions is 100% audition.  

And for the people that get accepted into Curtis, tuition is free!  The reason for that is because usually the people who are accepted there are already professional pianists with recording contracts and have already preformed all around the world.  So they know you have a job right outside of school.  And if you have trouble finding job, they'll get you a spot in the Philadelphia orchestra.

A friend of mine an I are auditioning there for fun to see what happens.  But of course we're not actually expecting to get in.



And just to name a few Alumni: Yuja Wang, Yefim Bronfman, Leonard Bernstain, Lang Lang, Lynn Harrell, and Jorge Bolet went there.  So to get accepted into that school, you pretty much have to be god.  

[ladychopin]

LOL but how can they hear about people from very small countries?
well I will ask my teach all my question when I will feel comfortable enough
She told me that she has alot of brilliant students but she never saw someone that talented and she could not believe that I play such a short time, and that my sight reading is from the Upper decile.
Usually I ignore those comments because I always have this feeling that they are being said just to please me and make me choose them as my teacher. In there case it's different a teacher that audition me to my new school (he plays viola and violin) talked to her to accept me as her student because she is "full" and after that, everything she told me must be real. She learnd at Curtis therefor she is one of a kind pianist.
Yey me XD ><

[rachmaninoff_forever]

LOL but how can they hear about people from very small countries?
well I will ask my teach all my question when I will feel comfortable enough
She told me that she has alot of brilliant students but she never saw someone that talented and she could not believe that I play such a short time, and that my sight reading is from the Upper decile.
Usually I ignore those comments because I always have this feeling that they are being said just to please me and make me choose them as my teacher. In there case it's different a teacher that audition me to my new school (he plays viola and violin) talked to her to accept me as her student because she is "full" and after that, everything she told me must be real. She learnd at Curtis therefor she is one of a kind pianist.
Yey me XD ><

What grade are you in?  If I were you, I would audition just for fun.  And if we have the same audition date, it would be kinda cool if we actually me each other.

Oh I forgot to mention another thing.  They only admit enough people to fill an orchestra and an opera company.  167 students attend there currently.

[ladychopin]

I'm still young I'm only 15 years old >< I was accepted to art & sience school for gifted childrens (only 5 pianists) it's a boarding school So I can truly focus on music.
I'm not gonna apply just for fun though it could be a great experience i wouldn't like to screw up my chances if they do exist!
My new teacher see Potential in me that she is giving me extra time for each lesson and she invites me to her home for another lesson in a week for free.
So maybe I could be good enough in 3-4 years XD though I have alot more to work about and gain more stage experience
Are you going to develope a career as a musician? (to where will you apply?)

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Are you going to develope a career as a musician? (to where will you apply?)

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