#211: Why You Don’t Play Like Yourself at Orchestral Auditions

That's Not Spit, It's Condensation! · Oct 29, 2026 · 28m · transcript

You’re organized. You’re recording yourself. You’re running mock auditions and putting in the hours. But once you get on stage, with the committee listening, something changes, and you don’t play the way you know you can in the practice room.

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In this episode of That’s Not Spit, It’s Condensation, Ryan Beach and Kathleen Costello explain why the usual audition prep (more practice, more mock auditions, trying not to care) doesn’t always carry over to the stage. They also name the state you need to be in to…