Reflections

This is my audition that got me into the Indianapolis Youth Orchestra. The audition required a 3 octave chromatic scale, a 2 octave scale of choice, 2 etudes, and a solo. For the solo I played Cantabile et Presto by George Enescu.

I played in a tennis tournament this weekend and I ended up winning my first match 6-3, 6-4 and lost the next two matches.

Performing in the Cinderella musical as part of the pit orchestra is probably my favorite part of the year. I got the opportunity to learn how to play pit musicals for orchestra and even was allowed to play the school’s alto flute.

For this year’s quartet, we played Chats by Marc Barthomieu. Chats translates into cats in French so each movement of this quartet symbolizes a different cat. This is our performance at district and we recieved a gold with distinction.

Our band qualified for the ISSMA State competition and we played Archangel Rafael Leaves the House of Tobias by Masanori Taruya. The piece was fun to play and we won 7th place.