Youth Orchestra of the Americas 2010- Evan Young, French Horn- USA

[TheChordDestroyer]

Wow. Great work and awesome choice of excerpts. Like Marcu5r0xs0x said, a little more musicality would be even better. A great way to improve that aspect would be to listen to multiple recordings of the entire pieces, not just the excerpts themselves. I really hope you get in; your tone and technicality are both beautiful.

[ej102099]

Holy pop tart that was amazing p.s. I'm a french hornist 2 and I hope to play like u 1 day thanks for sharing ur talent!!!

[TheBebe976100]

your good!! man i hope to sound that good maybe in a year or so :)

[RobotsandFishies]

You're really good, how long have you been playing?

[shib340]

Very nice, especially the shostakovich!

One question, where did you get your Alexander? Did you go out of states? Osmun music?

I'm thinking about purchasing an Alexander or a Schmid.

I'm kinda sick of my nickel Holton I've had for 6 years now and Conn 8D is not much different. Yamaha double horns aren't spectacular either.

[whatuwantmom]

damn wish i coud hit those low notes on command, & ur voice is like really deep but you look like an elementry student lolololol great playing though

[Marcu5r0xs0x]

Great job! I would have appreciated much more 'musicality.' For me, everything sounded rather flat; the notes were there, in tune, and with a velvety gorgeous tone, but where is the direction? The music? Don't get me wrong, I think you sounded fantastic! I really appreciated the clarity of your Till, too many young players take it too fast and wind up sounding over-hurried and sloppy. Good work!

[beatlesfanatic221]

HOLY COW MAN YOUR AWESOME. I play french horn myself. But Im not even half as good as you. :D

[PROIMZ]

Why would you use an Alexander103... no one uses them in the states.

[1337evan]

@PROIMZ I find that German made Horns, Alex Horns, have the most characteristic and artistic Horn sound out there. Let's see you play something then on your 8D.

[PROIMZ]

@1337evan

I didnt really mean that in an offensive way -.-

i was just curious.....

and Yes, I do play an 8D.

a recording? maybe.

[1337evan]

@PROIMZ sorry. been a long couple days and got way more to go. I was being sarcastic with the 8D comment. Im accepting of all horn styles... as long as you sound good, what should it matter?

[licasis]

They were stupid enough not to accept you.

[griffik85]

I find that you are very good in the bass clef more so than in the treble clef, keep up the good work as a horn player and you will go far

[Butterz8]

Very good! I miss playing like that so much. Good luck!

[nancyannw]

My daughter, Erin, was a horn student of Dr. Lundeens' until May 2009. I admire your talent and from listening to other audition tapes on Youtube, you have no competition for this!! How did it go???

[1337evan]

oh you're Erin Whelan's mom? Hi!!!!! Thanks for the kind words!! I still havent found out the results yet. They will send us results on Feb 15th. I hope it all goes well!! Thanks!!

[nancyannw]

Yes, I'm Erin's Mom. Best of luck. Will keep my fingers crossed for you.

[44jesusfreak4]

so did you make it?

[1337evan]

@44jesusfreak4 nope I did not get accepted.

[44jesusfreak4]

@1337evan that sucks

[wjsado]

best by far good job

[1337evan]

and thanks for all the comments! My professor tells me the same things. This was all done in 1 take (except it was edited for time constraints), so I couldnt do much really. haha.

[1337evan]

yeah I was using vibrato on Pavane. Ravel was french so vibrato is a must. But I guess it didnt come through on the video because my tone is very wide.

[1337evan]

the private function some reason wasnt working for me.

[AnthonnyAG]

Hi, the instructions says "without interruption" I think that includes editing, you should fix it.

My best wishes :oD

[1337evan]

yeah. the unedited version is like 7 minutes long, emptying water a lot between passages. If they ask me for it, I can always just send them a video file I have the entire thing saved on my hard drive. Also I read on the youtube portion that you could edit it. good luck to you too though.

[ZikuZukiii]

very nice! :)