Hey guys! It's Esther here.
Welcome to my channel.
Today, I'm gonna be talking to you guys about my experience at the Aspen Music Festival.
So I had the privilege of attending the Aspen Music Festival in 2015
and fortunately for me
I received full scholarship
which means that I did not have to pay tuition or room and board.
Aspen is a very long program.
You either stay there for 4 weeks for 1 session
or 8 weeks for two sessions.
Now I had to stay there for 8 weeks because
if you receive scholarship
um it is a requirement you stay there for the full session.
I was also accepted into the Wu Han and Finckel Chamber Program
which was an eye-opener.
I personally had such a blast
in Aspen
but I'm pretty sure there are other people, other students
who had very different experiences than I did because Aspen is such a big festival.
There are over 600 students that participate
and the students are either from different states in America or other countries.
So it is a very international atmosphere.
So I'm gonna be talking about Aspen in different categories
just like I did in my Banff video.
I'm comparing my ratings to other music festivals I've been to.
Personal Room.
I would give Aspen a
3.9/5 for their personal room.
For Aspen, I stayed in the Marolt Ranch...(I think that's what it's called).
You share your dorm room with 2 other people...usually.
How it's structured is that there is a front room
which is the single room
and then you enter into the washroom
which then leads to a bigger back room
which is for 2 people.
I lived in the single room.
The good thing is
you get your own space. YAY!
The bad thing is
your roommates have to always walk past your room to get to their room
which means that if you're sleeping late at night and your roommates are coming in later
they will always have to go through your room while you're sleeping.
Now I did not mind that as much
but it's not the greatest experience.
Aspen does not provide bedsheets.
Now if you are going to attend the Aspen Summer Festival
I would highly recommend you guys
to bring your own pillow.
There's also a fridge
which is really nice because if you go to the grocery store and you get
your favourite drink
you can stock - stock it all up in the fridge
and always take it out with you to rehearsals.
FOOOOOOD <3
As you all know
I love food.
This is from my experience, OK GUYS?!
I would give it a
3.7/5 for their food.
I think it's just like your everyday cafeteria food.
They had the basic salad bar and veggies
and for drinks they had the very basic soda dispensers
and my go-to-drink there was always blue Gatorade.
Actually, blue Gatorade mixed with red Gatorade.
You eat a lot of hot dogs, pizzas, sometimes steak, sometimes burgers
but there's not a lot of like
Asian food.
Now I will talk about practise rooms.
I would give it a
5/5.
They have this building which is a row of practise rooms.
It's very small.
What I also like about it is that it's clean.
Teachers.
I would give Aspen
a 6/5 for their teachers.
Unlike Banff where every student goes through the same teachers
in Aspen you have to select which teacher you wanna study with.
I really loved my selection of teachers
and I loved what they had to say and what advice they had to give me.
I'm also talking about the conductors that you get to meet.
I was placed in the chamber orchestra. There were a lot of great charismatic conductors
and it was very inspiring.
Now the atmosphere of the program.
I would give the atmosphere 4/5.
But it really depends how much you immerse yourself into the community.
Compared to other music festivals I've gone to
I would say Aspen is definitely
a more competitive environment.
But Aspen is like living in a city.
There are so many things to see, so many people to meet
but you don't have all the time in the world for that.
For opportunities, I would give Aspen
a 5/5.
Whichever orchestra you get placed into you'll do a lot of performing.
If you wanna perform solo you-
I think you have to sign up to perform but
most of the time you would get the spot.
And it really depends how hard you push yourself so
if you really wanna perform lots of solo works
you can definitely do that.
Recreations.
I would give Aspen a
4.2/5 for their recreations.
There is a little centre where you can
swim and also ice skate with your friends
but you also have to take a bus for that.
There's a lot of great hiking trails in Aspen, of course.
But I personally did not go on any of them.
There are thousands of concerts happening in Aspen and as a student you do get access to them.
And Aspen in general is just a beautiful area
where you can go into the town
and see a lot of beautiful stores as well as eat some really good ice cream at Paradise.
(I think that's what it's called)
Overall, Aspen was a great experience for me.
I got to meet tons of people.
I think it's definitely something that a lot of musicians should experience
because you're immersed in this environment with hundreds of other musicians
who have the same passion and drive as you.
Anyways, so that's the end of my video for Aspen.
If you guys have any questions about Aspen or
about other summer music festivals
or anything related to violin or classical music
please go ahead and ask me :)
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Anddd...
I guess I'll see you guys in the next video.
Bye!
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