Four winners of a contest on YouTube will get the chance to audition to perform with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Associated Press reports.
Orchestras typically find new musicians through talent agencies. (Conductor Manfred) Honeck usually holds auditions arranged in cities where the orchestra travels or, more often, by having the musicians come to the city.
But Honeck and (senior VP Robert) Mori have increasingly shared online video clips of musicians who are creating a buzz in symphony circles and figured, why not formalize the online screening process just once and see what happens?
The orchestra currently has no musicians who have auditioned by video, though Moir and Honeck said their concertmaster, or first violinist, did come to their attention through a video clip.
Original source: Associated Press
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