DOWNTOWN : Budding Musicians Offered Free Training

The Music Center is offering talented young musicians an opportunity to train for free with members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and other guest artists.

“You don’t have to be an aspiring orchestral performer; we are encouraging everyone to apply that could possibly benefit from the program,” said Cheryl Hall, program administrator.

The Music Center Education Division is accepting applications for the 1995 Corwin Seminars.

The program gives musically inclined 16- to 25-year-olds insights on audition, practice and performance techniques used by professional musicians; professional critiquing of solo and concerto repertoire, and instruction on how to maximize their artistic skills.

Although only those students with advanced training will be allowed to perform during the seminar, Hall said, beginning musicians as well as music teachers are welcome to audit the classes.

The program is sponsored by the family and friends of Sherril C. Corwin, a philanthropist and member of the boards of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Music Center, who died in 1981.

Last year, 47 musicians participated in the program; 122 peopleaudited it. Saturday sessions forviolin, cello, flute, clarinet, trumpet, horn, trombone and tuba arescheduled throughout the month ofMarch, and a special piano classwith a guest artist, pianist EmanuelAx, is scheduled in May.

The deadline to apply is Jan. 31.

For more information, contactthe Music Center’s Education Division at (213) 972-7352.