I Got Nominated For Encore!!! Yeewww

[Bunno12]

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How long after the performances do you find out if you're nominated?

[evilelmo_2005]

Is it at the Opera house? I know someone who got selected, she played the piano

[lucyG]

Yeah, it's at the Opera House. Does anyone know roughly how many people get nominated each year and what percentage of them actually get selected for Encore??

[xxstef]

has anyone received nominations this year yet?

[ashllis92]

Originally Posted by smartrosa

6 people at my school got nominated
2 violins
2 pianos
2 flutes

i play brass and about 0.000001% of brass players got nominated and about 1 every ten years gets in, my friend was that person last year, so i wasnt annoyed : D

HI FIVE FOR BRASS!!! What kind of brass do you play? I play cornet, trumpet, piccolo trumpet and a little bit of tenor horn and some bugling on the side

[diamell]

hey guys,
I got told by my school today that I was nominated, I play classical guitar. pretty stoked

[xxstef]

Originally Posted by diamell

hey guys,
I got told by my school today that I was nominated, I play classical guitar. pretty stoked

congrats!
i got told yday by the school that i got nominated too! for piano. very surprised and excited!

[diamell]

Originally Posted by xxstef

congrats!
i got told yday by the school that i got nominated too! for piano. very surprised and excited!

I'm going to do as many takes necessary on my video application so it's perfect..
Does anyone know how many people get nominated?

[Erotic Cakes]

Originally Posted by ashllis92

HI FIVE FOR BRASS!!! What kind of brass do you play? I play cornet, trumpet, piccolo trumpet and a little bit of tenor horn and some bugling on the side

Yeh, I can testament that brass never get nominated. My brother was an excellent trumpeter back in the day, did grade 7 AMEB in grade 7 of school, and in year 11 could hold a note for 77 seconds. He was not even nominated!

I don't know how I can find out if I'm nominated or not, my school's broken up already

[ashllis92]

Originally Posted by Erotic Cakes

Yeh, I can testament that brass never get nominated. My brother was an excellent trumpeter back in the day, did grade 7 AMEB in grade 7 of school, and in year 11 could hold a note for 77 seconds. He was not even nominated!

I don't know how I can find out if I'm nominated or not, my school's broken up already

Not to discount from your brothers apparent talent, holding a note for 77 seconds doesn't really indicate whether or not he is musical, just technically talented. As for AMEB... pfft they don't mean shit and yes, I have done AMEB 7th grade trumpet ... It's so very sad that brass never get nominated, I don't really understand why they dislike us but there you go...

[Erotic Cakes]

All I'm saying was that in my books he was certainly quite excellent, and musical, he also played all those side instruments like cornet, bugle and French horn for some reason haha.

My personal opinion about why brass don't get nominated, I think they're some of the harder instruments. Where you can technically play some pieces, but to make even like a grade 2 piece sound good is really difficult. Whereas (of course it's more complicated than this), pianists can make a piano sound good quite quickly. For the brass I reckon tone is everything, and I've heard very few trumpeters play with a brilliant tone, I think you really need to be pro to have that skill. That and brass mistakes really stand out, I make heaps of mistakes in my performances which no one but myself can hear, but the whole audience can hear mistakes made on the trumpet.

[ashllis92]

Originally Posted by Erotic Cakes

All I'm saying was that in my books he was certainly quite excellent, and musical, he also played all those side instruments like cornet, bugle and French horn for some reason haha.

My personal opinion about why brass don't get nominated, I think they're some of the harder instruments. Where you can technically play some pieces, but to make even like a grade 2 piece sound good is really difficult. Whereas (of course it's more complicated than this), pianists can make a piano sound good quite quickly. For the brass I reckon tone is everything, and I've heard very few trumpeters play with a brilliant tone, I think you really need to be pro to have that skill. That and brass mistakes really stand out, I make heaps of mistakes in my performances which no one but myself can hear, but the whole audience can hear mistakes made on the trumpet.

Certainly very true, I wasn't implying that your brother was a bad player simply that the examples you gave didn't support your argument very well, im sure he's quite good!
And about pianists, piano is infact rather hard to get a lot of tone colour from when compared to brass imo, having said that i haven't played either in years lol, I should pick them up aa=

[xxstef]

Originally Posted by ashllis92

Certainly very true, I wasn't implying that your brother was a bad player simply that the examples you gave didn't support your argument very well, im sure he's quite good!
And about pianists, piano is infact rather hard to get a lot of tone colour from when compared to brass imo, having said that i haven't played either in years lol, I should pick them up aa=

but hey, us pianists have a lot of people to compete with. sometimes i wish piano wasn't so popular...

[ashllis92]

Originally Posted by xxstef

but hey, us pianists have a lot of people to compete with. sometimes i wish piano wasn't so popular...

Dw, I'm a pianist too, I understand! It's so popular because it is easier to pick up than most instruments yet harder to master, and because it's plain awesome!

[hamlaciso]

I am a high school music teacher and in my time at the school we have had two brass players nominated and one go through, so I don't think that this is entirely true. However, both players were truely exceptional, one has gone on to win the "Ern Keller" (Big brass band solo competition in England) and one was Brass Band Association open champion in their instrument at the time...