It has been a while since I wrote for myself and not for my Colombia project, and a lot of things have happened during this time!
The CornoColombia project went pretty well for the most part, but I don't know if I will be able to find funding to continue the project in the future. I'm keeping my eyes out for lots of project opportunities, and I've already found some other kinds of community program funding that I may be able to use for a project, though most of them are limited to within the United States. I'll keep updating as I find out more!
I also heard back from all the graduate schools I applied for. Ultimately, I decided to attend the Yale School of Music in the fall, where I'll get my Master's in Horn Performance. I'm really excited about going there. I'll be studying with Bill Purvis and I really enjoyed my trial lesson with him. So I'll also be updating about how things work out there! Really, though, I'm not going there to get my Master's degree. Really, I want to get a job, and if I get one before I finish my studies, it's going to be a tough decision which to pursue immediately! I haven't found about any autumn auditions yet, except for two at the New York Philharmonic, and I haven't decided yet if I'm going to do that or not.
Anyways, that's all stuff for the future! Right now I'm more focused on the end of my time here at NEC. After the end of classes, I was still super busy with a variety of gigs, last minute solfege tutoring before exams, working in the admissions office, and practicing. Now that even those things are done, I'm frantically packing up all the stuff I've accumulated over the past four years into cardboard boxes before my parents arrive for commencement events this weekend. It's amazing how much stuff I have, even though I don't have that many clothes. I think most of my stuff falls into the realm of books, what with the three boxes I already filled with textbooks and music. Packing is extra complicated, though, because not only am I packing up everything I own; I also have to separate out things that I won't be taking back to school in the fall, and which things I will be taking with me to Brazil this summer.
Speaking of Brazil, let me share with you my schedule for this summer! I get back home on May 23 after driving all the way from Boston to DC... and then I have a week of various appointments and time to hang out with friends from high school and unpack a bit, before I leave for Salvador on June 1. I will be living there and working for NEOJIBA until late July, when we leave for our tour of Europe! Working for the orchestra basically means coaching the horn section and giving lessons as needed, but I will also be performing with them this year, so it will be just like being a permanent member of the orchestra would be. The European tour, as far as I've heard through the grapevine, will be in Berlin and Geneva, but nothing is official yet. I'm really looking forward to it regardless! This whole summer I'll be doing my best to blog regularly, but since it hasn't been 100% established yet where I'm living, there is no guarantee that I will have internet access at all. Even if I don't really, I can still post a little bit using the internet at the rehearsal space, but I won't be able to even check my email regularly.
Anyways, I just wanted to post a quick update on how things are going. As I said, I'll try to update regularly from Brazil this summer.
