Pursuing a postgraduate program


 



Well, since last year, I'm very much considering doing a graduate program in an area that really catches my attention, it's called orchestration.

It's about how you can use the whole orchestra, knowing very well how to use each instrument and mix them in the best possible way.

And I've done some research in the last few years, looking somewhere in France, because, it's well known that the French have one of the best orchestrations in the history of music, just listen to the orchestral works of Debussy and Ravel, just to mention the two masters of that subject.

There is the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique in Paris, which has specializations in this subject. It is well known that this conservatory is one of the toughest in Europe, that is something that scares me a little, because, maybe I will have to sacrifice a lot if I want to pass the tests to be able to go there.


 

Going through the information again, I have seen these testings, and they are very attractive. There's one where you have only 17 hours to do an orchestration for an orchestra , from a piano piece of music or something like that.

I talked about it with one of my teachers and he told me that Russia was a very good orchestration school too. But well, for the moment and maybe forever, it's not very good to go there. but in fact, they have a great history of music with very master orchestration too.

I will work hard when I graduate from my degree and then, with the money saved, consider going to a postgraduate orchestration program. But first, I want to work a lot.


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  1. Javier Illanes13 de noviembre de 2022 a las 19:29

    How fun, it would be great to go study in another country and get to know a new culture, it's a great challenge, I hope you can do it, meanwhile learn as much as you can. I'll go listen to Debussy and Ravel.

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