Concertmaster

Additional notes

Responsibilities:

 

Personal requirements:

Workload:

  • Maximum of 29 weeks of playing in the orchestra per year.
  • Concertmaster and Co-Leader share equally leading the orchestra
  • Serve as the section leader for the string group, overseeing its artistic development.
  • Collaborate closely with other section leaders, group leaders, administration, and the chief conductor.
  • Participate in meetings concerning program planning.
  • Manage rotation and tasks within the violin group.
  • Outstanding musical and artistic abilities.
  • Good cooperation and ensemble skills.
  • Good leadership skills, socially and artistically.

 

Application open for…

Instrumentalist: Violin

Application period: April 30, 2024 - June 28, 2024 (Europe/Oslo)

 

Events

Audition dates: August 31, 2024

The audition will take place in our great hall Fartein Valen in Stavanger Concert House.

All invited candidates must book and cover their own travel and cost.

Orchestral excerpts will shortly be announced here i Muvac.

 

Audition requirements:

  • Mozart: Violin concerto 3, 4 or 5 (free choice) 1. and 2. movement (with cadenza).
  • Violin concerto by Beethoven, Brahms, Sibelius, or Tchaikovsky, 1. movement (with cadenza).

 

Orchestra excerpts:

  • Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade
  • Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra
  • Mozart: Symphony 39, 4th movement
  • Strauss: Don Juan
  • Bach: From Weihnachtsoratorium, Schliesse, mein Herze