Joining the Ranks of the YouTube Symphony
A couple of months back, we blogged about the YouTube Symphony - a project undertaken by composer Tan Dun and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. As it turns out, an acquaintance from Australia was selected for a spot in the YouTube Symphony's horn section and let us here at SoundPost in on his audition and selection process. You can see his audition video at the bottom of his post, and we'll be sure to have him give us the insider's look at the performance in April. Check out other YouTube Symphony members' video introductions here.
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Armin Terzer is a freelance horn player currently doing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Brisbane, Australia. He is one of the YouTube Symphony finalists going to perform in Carnegie Hall with the first ever YouTube Symphony Orchestra under the direction Michael Tilson Thomas.
The Road to New Work - My videos were recorded and uploaded on the final day of submissions. Video 1 was the 1st French horn part of Tan Dun’s Internet Sympony “Eroica”, and video 2 Mozart’s Horn Concerto no.2, 1st movement. Actually I had set up the computer and camera for a friend, and at the end of his recording thought, why not give it a go. I had had a look at the music before, but was put off at first when trying to concentrate on the sheet music while looking at an impossibly small video of Tan Dun conducting.
600mb, or three hours of uploading later, I submitted my videos to the YouTube Symphony site on the 28th of January. For the next two weeks judges from the London Symphony Orchestra would watch all the videos and select a number to go to the second stage. About a week later, on the 6th of February I received an email advising me that I had been selected as a potential finalist. Eight other French horn players had also made it through.
On February 14, the voting period for registered users commenced. YouTube users had a chance to watch all the videos that had made it to the second round and select their favourites by giving thumbs up or down. After eight days the voting closed, and the second round was complete, this time however without any visible results. In the following week the scores of both rounds were combined, and Michael Tilson Thomas had the final say in who would ultimately make it to New York.
We, the ones who made it, knew it slightly before the rest of the world, as we were contacted the day before the results were officially announced. After signing a couple of forms giving YouTube and its partners the sole ownership of any material associated with the contest, four of us were announced winners, selected from an initial number of around thirty. Overall there were more than 3,000 submissions, and 90 people are going to meet in New York on the 12th of April for the start of the first YouTube Symphony Orchestra summit ever.
While we are not sure ourselves at this point of what is going to be on the program, rest assured that the 15th of April, 2009 will be one night to be remembered!
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Armin Terzer is a freelance horn player currently doing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Brisbane, Australia. He is one of the YouTube Symphony finalists going to perform in Carnegie Hall with the first ever YouTube Symphony Orchestra under the direction Michael Tilson Thomas.
The Road to New Work - My videos were recorded and uploaded on the final day of submissions. Video 1 was the 1st French horn part of Tan Dun’s Internet Sympony “Eroica”, and video 2 Mozart’s Horn Concerto no.2, 1st movement. Actually I had set up the computer and camera for a friend, and at the end of his recording thought, why not give it a go. I had had a look at the music before, but was put off at first when trying to concentrate on the sheet music while looking at an impossibly small video of Tan Dun conducting.
600mb, or three hours of uploading later, I submitted my videos to the YouTube Symphony site on the 28th of January. For the next two weeks judges from the London Symphony Orchestra would watch all the videos and select a number to go to the second stage. About a week later, on the 6th of February I received an email advising me that I had been selected as a potential finalist. Eight other French horn players had also made it through.
On February 14, the voting period for registered users commenced. YouTube users had a chance to watch all the videos that had made it to the second round and select their favourites by giving thumbs up or down. After eight days the voting closed, and the second round was complete, this time however without any visible results. In the following week the scores of both rounds were combined, and Michael Tilson Thomas had the final say in who would ultimately make it to New York.
We, the ones who made it, knew it slightly before the rest of the world, as we were contacted the day before the results were officially announced. After signing a couple of forms giving YouTube and its partners the sole ownership of any material associated with the contest, four of us were announced winners, selected from an initial number of around thirty. Overall there were more than 3,000 submissions, and 90 people are going to meet in New York on the 12th of April for the start of the first YouTube Symphony Orchestra summit ever.
While we are not sure ourselves at this point of what is going to be on the program, rest assured that the 15th of April, 2009 will be one night to be remembered!
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