News Release
Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra
announces auditions for 2012-13 season
Release date: January 17, 2012
The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra
performing in Severance Hall, November 20, 2011
Photo by Roger Mastroianni
CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra today announced auditions for the 2012-13 season. Auditions will be held at Severance Hall during the month of May, with late afternoon, evening, and weekend audition times available. Middle- and high-school student instrumentalists, who are studying privately and involved in their school music program, are invited to audition. Auditions will be heard for the following instruments: violin, viola, cello, double bass, harp, flute, piccolo, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, bass trombone, tuba, percussion, and keyboard instruments (alternate position). Audition applications must be received by Friday, April 6, 2012. The application fee is $25. Those interested should contact Youth Orchestra Manager Ashley Smith at 216-231-7352 or coyo@clevelandorchestra.com for information, or download audition materials on the website.
During the 2012-13 season, the Youth Orchestra will give three performances at Severance Hall as well as concerts in the greater Cleveland community.
Members of The Cleveland Orchestra serving as coaches to the Youth Orchestra and leading weekly sectional rehearsals include: William Preucil, Yoko Moore, and Emilio Llinas (violin), Lynne Ramsey, Stanley Konopka, and Mark Jackobs (viola), Richard Weiss, Bryan Dumm, and David Alan Harrell (cello), Maximilian Dimoff and Mark Atherton (bass), Marisela Sager (flute/woodwinds), Frank Rosenwein and Jeffrey Rathbun (oboe/woodwinds), Daniel McKelway and Robert Woolfrey (clarinet/woodwinds), Jonathan Sherwin (bassoon/woodwinds), Richard Stout (brass), Hans Clebsch (horn/brass), Lyle Steelman (trumpet), Thomas Klaber (low brass), and Marc Damoulakis (timpani/percussion).
The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, now in its twenty-sixth season, is a full, 100-member symphony orchestra of young musicians from 45 communities in 13 counties of Ohio and Pennsylvania. The ensemble was one of five youth orchestras chosen to participate in the National Youth Orchestra Festival at Michigan’s Interlochen Center for the Arts in June 1998. In March 2001, the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra made its debut at New York’s Carnegie Hall, as part of the Carnegie Hall Family Concert Series, and at Penn State University’s Eisenhower Auditorium. In June 2009, the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra traveled on a six-day, four-concert tour to Boston, Massachusetts and its surroundings. In June 2012, the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra will embark on their first international tour, which includes concerts in Prague, Vienna, and Salzburg. The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra is supported by generous grants from the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, and many individual donors.
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