Big Audition coming up, stressed.

This isn’t necessarily directly connected to music, but just the experience of being a young classical musician and dealing with stress.

I am a teenage oboist, I’m pretty set on being a musician when I grow up and it’s my dream. In two days I am auditioning for my country’s best and only youth philharmonic orchestra and it’s one of my biggest auditions ever.

The problem is I’m just burnt out because I’ve had a ton of stress from my school classical major, a huge competition and sitting first chair at another symphonic orchestra.

I haven’t been able to practice effectively and I’m just very scared, if I don’t get accepted I genuinely do not know what I’m gonna do.

So, If anyone is going through something similar, or feeling burnt out, or sympathizing with anything I’ve written, know that you’re not alone and I guess it’s just of being a performing artist.

Hope everyone is doing good <3