Sub-Principal Horn (No 5)

Sub-Principal Horn (No 5)

Sunday, 2 April 2017, 11.55pm

BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales is one of the UK’s most versatile orchestras, with a varied range of work as both a broadcast orchestra and the national symphony orchestra of Wales. It performs live to tens of thousands of people across the UK each year and can regularly be heard on BBC radio, television and online. The Orchestra is supported by the Arts Council of Wales, and forms part of BBC Wales.

The orchestra is proud to work with an outstanding group of conductors including Principal Thomas Søndergård, Principal Guest Xian Zhang and Laureate Tadaaki Otaka. As one of the six BBC Orchestras and Choirs, BBC NOW has a busy schedule of live concerts, broadcasts and recordings particularly for BBC Radio 3 and the BBC Proms. The orchestra is also a centre of excellence for soundtracks, regularly recording the music for many of the BBC’s highest profile TV and film productions including War & Peace, Life Story and Doctor Who. BBC National Orchestra of Wales is based at BBC Hoddinott Hall, part of the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay and is Orchestra-in-Residence at St David’s Hall, Cardiff, Wales’ National Concert Hall.

BBC NOW is a busy orchestra, touring the length and breadth of Wales, as well as to venues around the rest of the UK and abroad. Autumn 2015 saw the orchestra deliver one of its most ambitious projects to date in a three week tour of South America; including a highly impactful community residency in the Chubut Province of Patagonia. The Orchestra is invited to perform at festivals throughout Wales and the UK each year, and appears biennially at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World. The Orchestra also appears in several concerts annually as part of the BBC Proms.

Learning is central to the organisation, with a broad outreach programme, developing exciting, distinctive and memorable experiences for all ages. Recently the Orchestra has been seen by hundreds of thousands of primary schools pupils in the first film for BBC Music’s Ten Pieces project, inspiring a generation of children to get creative with classical music. Other recent projects include an innovative concert format designed for audience of deafened and hard of hearing. It is an expectation of this role that the successful candidate will contribute to the orchestra’s learning work.

Auditions will be held at BBC Hoddinott Hall, dates to be confirmed. Candidates will be required to prepare 2 pieces in advance (1 own-choice), perform Orchestral excerpts from a booklet provided in advance, and will also be issued sight-reading in the audition room.

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Published by Journal of Music on 15 February 2017

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