Interactive Video Audition Service International ("IVASI"):
An Inter-Active Video Guide for Orchestral Preparation

In the interest of helping serious classically trained musicians compete more favorably in the very difficult and fast disappearing job market, IVASI has developed this inter-active video guide.

There are many music schools that do not provide a comprehensive orchestral repertoire discipline because of a serious lack of qualified string players.

IVASI offers this new development in the training of classically oriented music students as a part of their daily routine.

IVASI has prepared forty-six major symphonic works with a conductor using state-of-the-art Hollywood studio techniques.

HOW IT WORKS
IVASI uses a technique started in the Hollywood studios more than sixty years ago. A conductor will synchronize his conducting talents with recordings of an agreed-upon work. The result, when shown on a large screen, makes available the possibility of learning the work without actually having to join an orchestra to do so. When using IVASI, a conductor rehearses the group first. At the end of the session a video projector is turned on and with state-of-the-art sound systems of today, the full sound of the orchestra is heard letting all the musicians in the ensemble play along, following the conductor on the screen. With the current technique using the DVD format, the process is even more exciting -- searching for rehearsal points to repeat difficult areas becomes a very easy process. Shown below are pictures of this technique being used in winds and brass sectional rehearsals.

As a demonstration of this process, IVASI has prepared several works to use in the horn studio. These same books and a DVD disc have been used very successfully at many International Horn Society workshops.

Bowdoin Summer Music Festival
Winds and Horns Performing Strauss: Don Juan

Bowdoin Summer Music Festival
Winds and Horns Performing Strauss: Don Juan

Music Academy of the West at Santa Barbara
Winds & Horns Performing Wagner Rhine Journey

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