“If you have been offered an audition for a cello position in a professional orchestra, Blaise Déjardin has created the perfect guide to achieving your goal.

Déjardin offers a world of advice about preparing for your audition, coping with nerves, keeping calm on the audition day itself and dealing with making mistakes. The orchestral excerpts make an invaluable collection for amateur orchestral cellists as well as those preparing for professional auditions. Suggested bowings and fingerings are also included. A well-conceived and very user-friendly book.

"Bravo to my dear colleague and friend Blaise Dejardin!

This is a fantastic book to prepare an orchestral audition, giving advice not only from the cellistic side but also from a psychological point of view, so useful for all auditions...a precious book to read! I wish you all lots of success for your next audition!"

"Blaise Dejardin lays it all out in his new book. From general concepts of preparation to specifics of execution, Audition Day is a gold mine of time-tested tips and solutions.

Any young cellist contemplating an audition would be wise to take his advice to heart."

“Audition Day was a crucial factor in helping me win my first orchestral audition. I found out in this book that mental preparation was as important as the excerpts, if not more. Whether you are thinking of taking auditions in the future or are already in the audition circuit, Audition Day is a useful toolbox to have.”

“Blaise Dejardin delivers a blockbuster hit for any aspiring
cellist who is looking for a hands-on instruction manual on how to thrive in an audition. His in-depth knowledge is gold, his delivery precise, poignant and practical. Makes me want to work through the essential excerpts all over again!”

“Audition Day contains sophisticated and organized ideas, laid out in a friendly and approachable fashion that has helped me prepare for auditions. I particularly enjoyed reading about Blaise’s approach to practice structuring and mindset before, during, and after the audition. I can’t recommend this book enough!”

"What a terrific book! It is thoughtful, logical, clear, and extremely helpful. Anyone taking orchestral auditions will find this an excellent and invaluable resource."

“Blaise has done a very important work with the creation of this book. I am sure this will be a crucial help for many cellists out there who are tackling one of the hardest challenges a musician faces these days. The words in this book come directly from a great cellist with the necessary experience and the ability to communicate it clearly. I strongly recommend it!”

“It’s easy to feel overwhelmed, lost, or paralyzed by uncertainty when one is new to orchestral auditions. And while there may be no single approach that works for everyone, there are certain essential guidelines, principles, and key details that seem to be universally helpful.

Blaise shares these foundational strategies - as well as some intriguingly counterintuitive yet well-reasoned bonus tips - in Audition Day. An audition preparation guide that I suspect will be a calming and reassuring presence not just during the months and weeks leading up to your audition, but on the day of the audition as well!”

"As student cellists, the audition process is shrouded in mystery.  As we begin to enter the process, the results can seem at times confusing and unfathomable. Following his own amazing success, Mr. Dejardin is ready to share his take on preparing for and executing a successful orchestral audition. This highly detailed book is clearly a labor of love, and timely, as too little attention has been paid in the past to what for many musicians is the most consequential 10 or 15 minute performance of their lives. This book should be an eye-opening guide and will be an excellent starting point for young cellists- I can't recommend it strongly enough!"

"Cellists will be especially pleased because this book focuses on them, but it can be used as a primer for any instrumental audition as the tenets that it promotes are universal. Mr. Déjardin’s insights into every detail of preparation are comprehen-sive in scope and colored with the prism of experience. His comments on standard audition repertoire are practical and simply explained, and the entire book could not be better organized or more succinct. In other words, while this book won’t win you an audition because it can’t play, it contains a very useful toolbox for audition success and starting a career as a professional orchestral musician."