Learn audition skills and how to "practice auditioning" effectively, enabling your ability to audition at a high level both musically and consistently.
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Learn audition skills and how to "practice auditioning" effectively, enabling your ability to audition at a high level consistently.
Students that have worked with Tom have won auditions in more than 50 various positions in orchestras and military bands.
This success rate is attributable to the efficacy and efficiency of his teaching methods continually refined over the past 30 years. Over the years, audition lectures have been given more broadly to all musicians, not just timpanists and percussionists. This proprietary method of teaching entails the close observation of musicianship while learning audition skills, with a focus on how to “practice auditioning” effectively, and overall practice efficiency. This method consistently produces tangible results in a very short period of time for all musicians, enabling their ability to audition at a high level both musically and consistently.
Some positions won by former students include
JFK Center Opera Orchestra (2 positions)
San Francisco Opera
Cleveland Pops
West Point Army Band (3 positions)
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Buffalo Philharmonic (3 positions)
Dayton Philharmonic (2 positions)
Air Force Band of Flight
Alabama Symphony Orchestra
Apollo’s Fire
US Navy Band, Washington DC
Kansas City Symphony
New World Symphony
TON (The Orchestra Now)
Louisiana Philharmonic
Cincinnati Symphony
Chicago Civic Orchestra
Fort Wayne Philharmonic
Minnesota Orchestra
Toledo Symphony
Seattle Symphony
Mansfield Symphony
Vancouver Symphony
West Virginia Symphony
Bergen Philharmonic
Erie Philharmonic
Youngstown Symphony
Wichita Symphony
Charlotte Symphony
Michigan Light Opera
Houston Symphony
Des Moines Metro Opera
Des Moines Symphony
Virginia Symphony
Oregon Symphony (two positions)
Jacksonville Symphony
Canton Symphony
The masterclasses that have been delivered all over the world and in many formats both online and live, including:
Yale University
Kent Blossom Music Festival
The New World Symphony
Peabody Conservatory
The Cloyd Duff Timpani Masterclass
These masterclasses have been delivered all over the world and in many formats both online and live, including:
Yale University
Kent Blossom Music Festival
The New World Symphony
Peabody Conservatory
The Cloyd Duff Timpani Masterclass
To schedule a lesson, simply email us at admin@freerpercussion.com.
Please include the following information:
Your name, email address, phone number and what instrument you play.
What the focus of your lesson should be, i.e. orchestral auditions, college auditions, practice efficiency etc.
Any musician is welcome to apply. With the current COVID situation it is best to schedule an online session.
Please send us an email with “lesson inquiry” in the subject line and we will reply in order to schedule with you as quickly as possible. Online sessions are done by providing a video for analysis (20 minute maximum) or a zoom meeting for audition coaching (non percussionist). If you submit video, you will receive a detailed written analysis, followed by a mutually scheduled zoom session to discuss details and answer questions in person. This can also include a bit of live demonstration during the zoom session if you wish.
We realize there are a multitude of lesson options to choose from online. Whether online or in person (when current COVID regulations permit), working directly together in a customized way, is something that cannot be replicated.
