Auditions: Monday 2 and Tuesday 3 February 2009. Candidates must be available for both whole days.
Requirements: The first and second movements of the Mozart Horn Concerto No. 4, including cadenza
PLUS the complete Strauss Horn Concerto No. 1
PLUS orchestral excerpts, available Monday 19 January 2009.
Closing date: Monday 5 January 2009


To apply for an advertised orchestral vacancy with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, please send a CV and letter of application to:

Angela Chilcott, Assistant Orchestra Manager
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
GPO BOX 9994
MELBOURNE VIC 3001

Email: chilcotta@mso.com.au (please include the Job title or Casual Audition Application in the subject line)
Tel: +61 (0)3 9626 1118
Fax: +61 (0)3 9626 1122

Taped Auditions

Applicants wishing to send tapes should contact Angela Chilcott before applying. We are only able to accept DATs or CDs (not minidisks). Tapes must be unedited and recorded by a professional recording engineer in a professional recording studio.

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New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Bumper/Utility Horn

Applications close:6 March 2009
Audition: 24 March 2009
Excerpts available: 26 January 2009
Contact: auditions@nzso.co.nz

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Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

PRINCIPAL THIRD HORN

Salary starting from $66 834 (inclusive of superannuation and base allowances).

Audition date: Monday and Tuesday 19 and 20 October 2009 in Hobart.
Applications close: Monday 5 October 2009.

Audition Requirements:
1st movement of Mozart horn concerto No. 2
PLUS 1st and 2nd movement of Strauss horn concerto No. 1
PLUS orchestral excerpts, available from Monday 21 September 2009.
Set repertoire must be performed with piano accompaniment.

Applicants must plan to be available for both whole days.
Applications are open to international applicants.

Recorded Auditions:
Candidates wishing to submit a recorded audition should contact the Orchestra Manager for further information and recording guidelines.

Applications, including a completed application form and a CV detailing relevant experience and training should be directed to:

Kate Salvatore
Orchestra Manager
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
GPO Box 1450
Hobart Tas 7000
Enquiries: +61 3 6232 4415
Mobile: 0409 955 340
Email: salvatorek@tso.com.au

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Full Time French Horn Position - minimum service requirement, 3 years
Auditions - Open now
Requirements - 3 contrasting pieces.  Level of standard required is AMUS-A
Remuneration - $50,000 +

The Royal Australian Navy Band is a prestigious ceremonial unit of the Australian Defence Force, and is one of Australia's premier military ensembles.

The RAN Band is led by its Director of Music, Lieutenant Commander Phillip Anderson. The permanent detachments are stationed at the naval establishments HMAS Kuttabul, Potts Point, New South Wales and HMAS Cerberus, Western Port, Victoria.

To assist in fulfilling its mission, 'promote the Royal Australian Navy', the band incorporates a fleet of ensembles. All members of the band perform in a ceremonial capacity. However, to ensure versatility and to continue its public relations support for the Royal Australian Navy, each detachment maintains other capabilities including wind orchestra, wind chamber ensembles, popular music combinations as well as a sea deployment group which operates on a rotational basis.

Please contact the Public Relations Manager for audition requirements and bookings.

Visit our website at www.navy.gov.au/ranband for more information on the Royal Australian Navy Band.

Esa Douglas
Leading Seaman Musician
Public Relations Manager
Royal Australian Navy Band
Ph:          02 9359 2618
e-mail:      esa.douglas@defence.gov.au

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NEW LISTING. The Kelvin Grove Wind Orchestra
The Kelvin Grove Wind Orchestra in Brisbane www.kgwo.org.au are running low on horn players. They are looking for players who are at least grade 5 or 6 standard.
They practice every Thursday night from 6:30 to 9:30 pm at the Old Museum Concert Hall, Cnr Bowen Bridge Rd and Gregory Tce, Bowen Hills. They perform at least 4 or 5 times a year.

North Sydney Symphony Orchestra
The NSSO needs  horn players of AMEB Grade 6 or equivalent. We perform concerts four times a year and rehearse at Crows Nest on Monday nights from 7.30pm. Our conductor is Steven Hillinger and our concertmaster, Shuti Huang (SSO). Please contact Graham Ball on 9427 2404 or grahamball@bigair.com.au. Further information: www.nsso.org.au.
 
Amateur Chamber Music Society
The ACMS is an Australian mailing list of people who are interested in playing chamber music. We are currently looking for more horns to join. Our current membership is about 300 people from mainly Sydney but also around Australia. It includes string, wind and piano players of varying ability levels and ages.
Involvement in the group at a minimum is to pay the membership fee and receive the membership directory and the regular newsletters in the mail. At a maximum you can get involved in ad hoc chamber music playing at people's houses, attend the organized playing days (5 per year. Held on Sundays), go to the 3 day Wollongong camp on the Australia day long weekend. Perform in a Sunday sunset concert (held about every 2 months at Kirribilli neighbourhood centre), get involved in the much smaller Blue Mountains playing days. All involvement is entirely optional.
We have a committee which runs things and another committee which does the Wollongong camp. The group has been going for over 20 years.
We also have a library which currently has around 500 items, many only recently purchased. In this listing are around 50 pieces for wind quintet. We also have many other pieces involving horn including 4 quintets for horn and strings.
For more info visit our website
www.acms-sydney.org
where you will find details of how to join.

Inner West Concert Band is looking for players of all ages, skills and abilities to join. We really need flutes, clarinets, bassoons, trombones and clarinets but trumpets, saxophones, tubas, percussion and french horns are also very welcome. Rehearsal is on Thursday evenings, 7:30 at Burwood Girls High School, Queen St, Croydon. Conducted by Glenn Armitage the band was only formed in February this year. For more information call the school on 9747 3355.

Lane Cove Concert Band needs Horn players as well as other instrumentalists. They rehearse Thursday nights. Instruments are free to hire if they become a member of the band. Contact the Band Secretary, Elana Traurig, on 0419 614323 or 02 9416 6888

Ku Ring Gai Philharmonic Orchestra need some horn players. Grade 7 AMEB minimum standard. Please contact Deb Dietz on 9489 6940 www.kpo.org.au

Strathfield Symphony Orchestra need some horn players, they rehearse Monday nights at 7.45pm at the Strathfield Town Hall. Their Chief Conductor is Sarah-Grace Williams. Contact Bruce Lane or check  www.strathfieldsymphony.org.au

The Mosman Orchestra is looking for brass players, especially horns. As a community orchestra, TMO performs a variety of programmes each year, including a chamber music concert in a friendly, yet musically challenging atmosphere. For more information, contact the secretary