- A lot of students will ask me
why they should even bother auditioning for an orchestra
if there's such tremendous competition.
This year alone will have maybe five
or six livable wage jobs in orchestras
throughout the United States and Canada.
And probably close to 400 graduates.
So on a best case scenario,
if you're lucky enough to win a job right out of school,
that means about 394 students won't have jobs.
And so you have to ask yourself,
"Why do we wanna do that?"
And the big reason is because you must.
Music is really a career that chooses you.
You don't chose it.
And if you have to play,
then you'll find a way.
And the way we like to think about it is that well,
if there's only six jobs available in a year,
that's great, that's five more than you need.
And as long as there's one job out there
you should be very, very glad
because that could be you getting that job.