Audition Success: An Olympic Sports Psychologist Teaches Performing Artists How to Win

As someone who had absolutely crippling performance anxiety, this book changed my playing as a musician. I won an audition shortly after reading it!

I'm sure there is more advice in this book than what I've gathered so far, however, the style of writing for this book made it completely unappealing. It is written in the form of transcripts taken from conversations the author had with two different clients. At first I thought that may help me relate to the information better, but instead it just made it harder to find the information that would be helpful to me. The book also doesn't explain in anyway how to apply these audition success techniques to your life, so overall I didn't like the format of the book and it was very unhelpful to me. The author has another book titled "Fight Your Fear and Win" that is ten times better in that sense.

This book is for the serious instrumentalist who may be auditioning soon. Its a good book to keep around when needing to brush up on audition tips

Great help to our daughter

Very helpful and practical approach to auditioning.

Great book!

I ordered this book because my horn teacher recommended it, and I was confused that it was labelled (A Theatre Arts Book), because it isn't. This book by Don Greene was developed specifically for the professional classical musician. The methods might be useful to people involved in the other performing arts, but that is not what it is specifically for.As for the quality, I haven't yet finished the book but find it interesting and potentially useful. The connection between professional sports and professional musicians is interesting to explore. If you are debating between this book, and The Inner Game of Music by Barry Green, I would reccommend this book if you are a performance or serious student of classical music. There are fewer errors in this book, and it is more directly applicable. However, if you are more of an amateur, then I think that The Inner Game of Music would be more interesting to you.

'Audition Success' by Don Greene is probably the best book I have read regarding audition preparation. It consists largely of transcribed interviews with two of Greene's clients. Using their experiences, the reader can craft his or her own audition preparation plan. It covers everything from methods to practice orchestral excerpts through to word association techniques which help performers settle in to the right mood the moment before they perform.I am usually very skeptical about these sorts of books as there are many out there that are simply too wishy-washy. 'Audition Success' is a no nonsense approach that if read, understood, and applied, can be very helpful in making performers more successful in audition and other performing situations. A must read (and must do!) for all musicians taking auditions.

Super Buch.Leider war mein Exemplar nicht mehr ganz so neu, augenscheinlich schon mal benutzt. Deswegen nur 3 - das Buch selbst ist sehr gut.