Jess Gillam's World
Part 6
“Down to earth, funny and cool...what was not to like?”
– Gramophone Magazine
– Gramophone Magazine
As the new year begins, I am looking ahead to a busy and
exciting 2016 - Happy New Year to everybody!
I spent most of December preparing for several
auditions, so this is just a short blog update. December always seems to be busy with auditions for me! I find that
preparing for auditions is a very similar process for preparing for a concert
because my end goal is the same - to be able to give the best performance I'm
capable of. When I am actually in front of a panel however, I find the
experience very different to performing to an audience in a concert. I find the
performance so much more intimate and this makes me more nervous in a way. I
even find playing in a small concert venue extremely different. I try to
forget where I am as soon as I play the opening note and I attempt to totally
immerse myself in the music and focus as much as possible and this nearly
always helps me.
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| BBC Young Musician of the Year 2016 |
One of my auditions in December was for BBC Young Musician
of the Year 2016. In 2014, I was a woodwind finalist in the competition and the
recipient of the BBC Walter Todds Bursary for showing exceptional promise. I am
delighted to have reached the Woodwind Category Finals again and I will be one
of five woodwind finalists competing at the Royal Welsh College of Music in
Drama in Cardiff. The competition takes place in early March so the coming
months will be spent preparing and practising my programme as much as possible.
I will also search the repertoire and find out as much as I can about its
origins to help me to put the music into context.
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| 'Out of the Cool' by Dave Heath |
I am also preparing to perform "Out of the Cool"
by Dave Heath with the Junior Royal Northern College of Music Symphony
Orchestra in early February so this means that lots of music is stuck on my
bedroom wall to be memorised - I will let you know how it goes in my February
blog!
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