Auditions are by appointment only:
Contact our personnel director at personnel@abqphil.org
or call our message line
(505)433-7445
to schedule an appointment
If you are interested in playing 1st violin, please include high position passages in your solo. You may also contact our concertmaster, Wendy Cieslak, for a warm welcome and friendly guidance. You can reach Wendy at librarian@abqphil.org
Auditions will be scheduled for a 15-minute time slot August 14, 2023,
between 7:00 PM and 9:30 PM
For all auditions, we ask for a short solo, 2-3 minutes, from a piece of your choosing. The solo should display both musicality and technique. Applicants will play their chosen solo first, and then the excerpts, which are listed with each instrument below.
Rehearsals are on
Monday evenings
7:30 PM - 9:45 PM
Rehearsals resume on
August 21, 2023
St. Andrew Presbyterian Church
5301 Ponderosa Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110
We ask for a short solo, from a piece of your choosing. The solo should display both musicality and technique. Applicants will play their chosen solo first, and then the excerpts.
We ask for a short solo, from a piece of your choosing. The solo should display both musicality and technique. Applicants will play their chosen solo first, and then the excerpts.
We also ask that you prepare clarinet excerpts for the position of bass clarinet/3rd clarinet
We ask for a short solo, from a piece of your choosing. The solo should display both musicality and technique. Applicants will play their chosen solo first, and then the excerpts.
(Disregard the Tuba excerpts )
Also prepare violin section excerpts
also prepare viola section excerpts
also prepare cello section excerpts
also prepare bass section excerpts
1) Only pages 7-12 of Tchaikovsky Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies
2) Saint Saens Carnival of the Animals, Movement 3 complete, and Movement 7 from 3 before rehearsal 3 to the end.
1. Williams - Harry Potter Suite = I. m. 43-74 2. Chabrier - España = m. 45-61 3. Enesco Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1 = rehearsal figures "25"- "26" We ask for a short solo, from a piece of your choosing. The solo should display both musicality and technique. Applicants will play their chosen solo first, and then the excerpts.
Join us!
Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra
email: albuquerquephilharmonic@gmail.com
P.O. Box 36893
Albuquerque, NM 87176
(505)433-7445