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There was an orchestral audition that took place this weekend at the local opera company. It was an audition for nine violin positions. There were twelve applicants. Of these twelve, two were advanced out of the preliminary round to the finals. It isn’t clear if anyone was offered a position at the time this was [...]
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Just saw this message on Edmonton Symphony music director William Eddins’ facebook page:
ATTN ALL VIOLISTS – The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra is holding International auditions for our Section Viola opening on Monday, 28 September, 2009. Guaranteed clean audition, wonderful orchestra, one of the best halls in North America. Come one, come all!!!! For more information please [...]
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Congratulations go to Marc Rovetti (with whom OSO principal cellist Nancy Ives and I and former OSO violinist Denise Dillenbeck played a quartet concert in Astoria this spring), who has won the job of Assistant concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra! He was already a member of the Philly Orchestra for several years before moving up [...]
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Gregory Vajda
OSO Resident conductor Gregory Vajda is one of the conductors up for music director of the Fairfax Symphony (located in Northern Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C.). He wrote a blog entry for the orchestra’s blog and gave a very kind shoutout to this blog, so I thought I’d return the favor. He writes [...]
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The last three days have been taken up for nine of my colleagues in listening to auditions for the assistant principal cello position in the OSO. I believe that there were something like 50 or so applicants that showed up for the preliminary auditions. Someone has been offered the position, but I cannot reveal their [...]
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Photo credit: Charles Noble
Oregon Symphony cellist Adam Esbensen, a native of Corvallis, and a member of the Oregon Symphony since 2004 (he’s also the cellist with local new music ensemble fEARnoMUSIC), has won what is considered the Holy Grail of orchestral jobs, a position in a Big Five orchestra, in this case the Boston Symphony!
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I’ve been thinking a lot about practicing lately. Maybe that’s because I’ve actually been practicing lately. Or not. But I’ve been thinking about the process of practicing, and it’s really quite militaristic!
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Check out the latest posts from conductor Bill Eddins (music director of the Edmonton Symphony) as he contends for a post with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra. Good stuff.UPDATE, SON OF REDUX: fourth fifth sixth seventh installment added today
Charlotte Prelude
Charlotte Part I
Charlotte Part II
Charlotte Part III
Charlotte Part IV
Charlotte Part V
Charlotte Part VI
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Conductor and blogger extraordinaire William Eddins writes an excellent post about taking part in a music director search – as a prospective candidate – by the Charlotte Symphony.Â
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This past week there was an inquiry on the message boards at MyAuditions.com about the results of a recent viola audition for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Apparently, there were two people who were finalists and who were going to be given trial periods before a hiring decision was made. The names of those two [...]
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