Audition & Performance Prep

Preparing for an Audition

Ninety minutes, some time before it matters. Not another lesson — a dress rehearsal for the room you are walking into.

An audition is not a concert. You get five minutes, often less, in a room with awkward acoustics and a table of people who have already heard forty singers that day. It is a distinct skill, separate from singing well, and it can be practised. That is what we practise.

What the session covers

Choice of programme — which pieces show your voice as it actually is, and in what order they should sit
A full run at tempo, without stopping, as though it counted
Everything before the first note: how you come in, where you stand, what you say to the pianist
Nerves as a technical question — the breath is the first thing to go, and the breath can be prepared

Who it is for

Applicants to the Opera College, the Royal College of Music, and European conservatories
Entry auditions for student, chamber, and church choirs
Competitions and scholarship auditions
Professional singers auditioning for a house, an agency, or a production

What I bring into the room

I have sung at the Royal Swedish Opera, at Oper Bonn across five seasons, at La Monnaie in Brussels, and at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. None of it came without someone sitting down to listen first. I know how it sounds from the table and I know how it feels from the floor, and that is the difference between rehearsing for an audition and rehearsing an audition. What I can teach you is not to sing better in three weeks — it is to show what you can already do, in the five minutes you are given.

Practical details

90–100 minutes, 1 700 SEK. Book well before the audition date if you can, so there is room for a second session if something needs reworking. Held in Linköping, in Stockholm, or online.

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