I know that there is a wealth of information on this board. I'd really like those of you with experience and knowledge to help us if you can.
We are getting conflicting advice about prescreens. Some people say that the prescreen recording has to be perfect, not one mistake, otherwise there is no way that you will get invited to audition. Others say that as long as you can show that you are at the right level, even with some mistakes, that is enough. This is for undergraduate, not graduate, and I can see that it could be different depending on that.
But how perfect does the recording have to be?
For all of the places with prescreens, we have met and played for the respective teachers and have had a great deal of encouragement following the lesson. But some people have told us that the teachers don't actually listen to the prescreens, so if it is a graduate student who does not know us, how much should we take the teachers' comments into account? (For example, one teacher wrote in an email after the lesson, see you in February, which is when the auditions are.)
Thank you to anyone who can give any advice at all.
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