Instrument or role: Clarinet
Job category: Performance
Number of positions: 1 open position
Additional information: The audition will be held on 23 September 2025 at the "Great Amber" Concert Hall (8 Radio Street, Liepaja).

Requirements for the Contestants:

Professional higher musical education in the clarinet specialty, or the Contestant may apply in the capacity of a student of a higher education establishment in the required specialty;
The Contestant’s working experience in an orchestra shall be preferred;
The Contestant’s ability to have his/her primary job at the LSO.

Main job duties:

To prepare and play the orchestral pieces of the clarinet section at high artistic quality;
To adhere to the work plans and structure, as well as other internal regulations of the LSO;
To maintain and to improve his/her individual mastery throughout duration of the contract.

Place of work: Radio iela 8, Liepāja, Latvija.

For more information go on www.lso.lv/en/orchestra/vakances

Apply by: September 15, 2025, 23:59 (time zone: Riga)
Application instructions: Deadline for sending the applications: 15 September 2025, by 23:59. The application and documents shall be submitted electronically to the LSO electronic mail address [email protected] with the reference "For Audition":

CV (Curriculum vitae);
copies of documents supporting educational qualifications and further training; for students – a statement issued by the higher educational establishment.
Application link: https://www.lso.lv

Audition repertoire: The 1st round program:

A. Mozart – Clarinet Concerto, 1st movement K.622, Allegro (K.622, A Major)

The Contestant shall perform the first-round program from his/her sheet music material.

The 2nd round program:

Clarinet:
L. van Beethoven – Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, 1st movement (bars 418–438 and 474–492)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – “Scheherazade”
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5, 1st movement
Felix Mendelssohn – “Hebrides” Overture”
Felix Mendelssohn – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
B. Bartók – Concerto for Orchestra, 2nd movement
Bass Clarinet:
Richard Strauss – three excerpts from the symphonic poem "Don Quixote"
Dmitri Shostakovich – Violin Concerto No. 1, 2nd movement

The sheet music material for the second round shall be downloaded from the LSO website: lso.lv/orkestris/vakances

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