Audition for the National Youth Orchestra
Auditions are open for young musicians to join the National Youth Orchestra 2016.
HUNDREDS of young musicians are expected to apply to audition for a place in the prestigious South African National Youth Orchestra.
The orchestra is formed each year at the National Youth Orchestra Courses and comprises the top talent South Africa has to offer. Members include players from across the country, who are chosen on merit through anonymous audition.
This year the National Youth Orchestra will team up with the Academy of Sound Engineering in an exciting new partnership for the first round of their auditions, where students from the ASE will record the first round auditions.
This year the Foundation boasts a whole series of national courses and programmes for top young orchestral musicians under 25. To make the courses open to all musicians who win coveted places in the orchestra, bursaries, scholarships and payment plans are available. Applications are now open, and can be completed online on their website at www.sanyo.org.za. Applications close on 12 February.
Young musicians wishing to apply must play an orchestral instrument, be of at least Grade 7 music level and be resident in Southern Africa. Audition requirements include excerpts from Mahler’s Fifth Symphony and a piece and a study to demonstrate the candidate’s musical level and strengths.
