Entrance examination

How to prepare in the right way?

All voice ranges. All nationalities. Bachelor and master.
For all those, who are preparing for a professional career as a singer.

Every year many talented young people apply for studies in singing at universities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. To pass the entrance examination, one need a proper preparation. A profound breathing technique and finding out your own technical possibilities in singing will give you the necessary safety and courage to do the important step.

But often seemingly incidental formalities are rather important: How do I present myself? What are the right arias to prepare for a entrance examination? Which is the right order to present them? How do I move during the performance of an aria? Do I know what I am singing about? Who am I in the moment of a presentation? etc.

Competent answers …

Breathing technique, articulation, resonance and the right techniques of learning are part of the singing lessons with professional teacher Arantxa Armentia as well as learning ways to express yourself, to shape an aria and looking for a repertoire that fits to your voice. Working on the content of a role is the basis for a convincing interpretation. Instructions to learn singing parts of the 20^th and 21^st century’s repertoire that often needs a special singing technique. Regular concerts among the singing classes will help to control excitement, nervousness and stage fright to concentrate on the own interpretation.

… professional help …

Singing teacher Arantxa Armentia studied in her home country Spain and in Germany and therefore knows two very different education systems. She looks back on a long successful career on the stages of the biggest opera houses in Europe – from Madrid’s Teatro Real to Vienna State Opera – and knows the very special situation of an audition from the candidate’s as well as from the jury panel’s perspective. She is experienced in the German university system as well as in the German theater system with all its peculiarities.

… lead to the success!

Thanks to Arantxa Armentia’s professional preparation several students could stand up successfully to the numerous competitors in entrance examinations at the universities of Karlsruhe, Bremen und Essen.

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