Many people that have been involved with Wisconsin Singers in the past have gone on to perform professionally throughout the world. Senior Sean Pinnow auditioned on May 2 to be a part of the Wisconsin Singers. About thirty people auditioned, 26 of them being girls and the rest guys. All of the people were either sophomores or juniors in college, except for Sean and one other girl. A few of the people have already been Singers, but have to re-audition every year. To start off the audition, each person had to sing one of his or her two prepared solos. When everyone was done singing for the seven judges, they were taught a modern dance combination. About 10 minutes after learning the dance combination, they had to perform it for the judges. “ Vocally everyone was pretty amazing, but dance-wise, I got the top dance scores by far,” said Sean.

Soon after the dancing, the audition was done and the people waited until the judges posted who made callbacks. Sean added. “ It was pretty much the greatest feeling in the world to see my name on that sheet.” Then, the few people who made callbacks had to sing their second prepared solo for the judges. They also had to sight sing in quartets to see how chorally correct each person was. The sight singing was the toughest part of the day for Sean because it was so advanced. After they sang, the group split and half the people went to get interviewed by the director and company manager. The other half of the people learned a second dance combination. The groups switched eventually. Sean got the top dance score again and thought he did pretty well during the interview. After all that, the easiest part of the day was measurement for costumes.