sophomore recital prior to the required junior & senior recitals, nursing home performance as practice for senior recital, etc.) the student may have to pay the collaborative pianist out-of-pocket. For example, if a student does a non-degree recital (i.e. Note also, that even if the school's policy is as liberal as CIM's, there may be specific instances in which the students pay $$$ in addition to any "accompanying fees" assessed by the school. There are many ways schools handle accompanists - from leaving the burden to the students to come up with appropriate collaborators and an agreed upon reimbursement to taking on the responsibility of assignment and billing as a service/fee function run largely through the school.
As noted above, the specifics will be very school specific. I think this is a great consideration and a question that should be asked anytime that additional fees are a concern. His need was limited to jury/recital prep, and an occasional "solo" piece he was preparing. I'd imagine a different level of usage between instrumentalists and vocalists.
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The last two years he worked exclusively with one doctoral student, and they had a quid pro quo arrangement, where he provided string accompaniment when she needed it. Son always wrote a check direct to the accompanist, in the $150 range if I recall. Whether the fee was negotiable, I don't recall, but was reasonable, and perhaps those in the highest demand could/would charge a bit more. We were not billed by the school, nor was it stated as included as part of tuition cost, or a distinct line item fee. Arrangements were directly between the accompanist and the student. I know from son's experience there Hartt (BM '07), there was a "pool" of accompanists, who were grad students and doctoral candidates. This is probably one of those institution specific questions that may well have a broad range of answers. It's been kicked around before, but I can locate any titled threads searching within posts using a couple of options didn't reveal much that was school specific, more focused on audition/competition/recording accompaniment questions. Here's a prior thread with a couple of sidebar comments. For my son who is a sernior, we have been paying a wide range now from $40 per hour to $400 for a recent competition (the $400 included rehearsals, the pianists' individual practice time, and the hour-long performance).
We don't have any top-notch schools in our area, so at them each student individually arranges for accompaniment and pays for whatever they arrange at whatever rate they negotiate. What would a violinist or other instrumentalist typically get? I'm assuming that accompanists for instrumentalists will not regularly go to lessons (although my son has had teachers that would like them there frequently).
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When it is included within tuition, how much accompanying does it cover? Mezzo'sMama mentioned that at CIM, her daughter gets an hour rehearsal per week, plus accompaniment at lessons, plus auditions, juries, and performances (this seems adequate or generous). When a school does not include it in tuition, what does it typically cost for a year or per hour? Obviously this will vary significantly from school to school and accompanist to accompanist, but it would be helpful to know what the range is. How frequently is the fee included within tuition? I think that Mezzo'sMama suggested that CIM includes accompanying within tuition (please correct me, if I'm wrong). While I've seen plenty on various college/conservatory websites about accompanists' fees for auditions, I haven't seen much about accompanists' fees for when the student is attending the college/conservatory. I thought it might be useful to start a thread on the issue. Recently in the sample lessons payment thread there has been a bit of discussion of the fees for collaborative pianists/accompanists.
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