Apply by: March 31, 2025, 23:55 (time zone: Lisbon)
Application instructions: The candidate must have academic qualifications (CV and certificates), experience in professional orchestras, knowledge of orchestral repertoire, good
performance skills, communication and leadership skills. Applications will only be valid if the candidate sends their CV and a solo video (made during the last year) with a piece of their choice. Video must be uploaded via the Youtube platform (as a link), listed as private. These applications will be pre-selected and the results for the next round will be announced by 5th April 2025. The Madeira Classical Orchestra reserves itself the right of not accepting any candidate whose academic profile and professional experience is understood as inadequate or insufficient.
Applications must be sent exclusively by email to: [email protected]
Other forms of application will not be valid.
The deadline date for applications is 31st march 2025.

Audition repertoire: 1) Solo parts:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Oboe Concerto in C major KV. 314
(Bärenreiter-Verlag edition)
1st movement exposition:
Bar 32 to bar 97
2nd movement exposition:
Bar 11 to bar 50
Richard Strauss - Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra
(Boosey&Hawkes edition)
1st movement exposition:
Beginning to number 5
2) Orchestral Excerpts:
(De: Ochester Probespiel, edition Peters)
L. van Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 in E flat major Op 55 ‘Eroica
- II movement
Bar 8 to bar 101
- III movement
Bar 7 to bar 93 + Bar 206 to bar 216- IV movement
Bar 75 to bar 404
L. van Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 in F Major Op. 68 ‘Pastorale’
- IIII Movement
Bar 13 to bar 122
G. Bizet - Symphony in C Major
- II movement
Bar 8 to bar 114
- III movement
Bar 204 to bar 261
J. Brahms - Violin Concerto in D Major Op. 77
- II Movement
Bar 3 to bar 32
M. Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin
Prelude
G. Rossini - Die seienne Leiter
Bar 5 to Bar 53
B. Smetana - Die verkaufte Braut
Bar 1 to bar 226
P. I. Tschaikowsky - Symphony No. 4 in F minor Op, 36
- II movement:
Bar 1 to bar 21
- III movement:
Bar 133 to bar 144
3) English horn
G. Rossini - Wilhelm Tell
Bar 176 to bar 226
Accompanist: The Orchestra doesn’t provide an accompanying pianist for the audition. If the candidate wishes to play with a piano, they must assume all the associated costs.

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