Auditions
Youth Orchestra Flanders is holding auditions for projects in 2025. The auditions are open to any musician studying in Belgium and to Belgians from all over the world aged between 15 and 26.
Participation in the project is compulsory and must be confirmed at the time of the audition.
The auditions will take place at conservatoires in Flanders with a panel of professional musicians.
Registrations are open until Wednesday 5 October 2024 at 12:00 via this inscription form.
Open positions
- Violin I – 14 + reserve
- Violin II – 12 + reserve
- Viola – 10 + reserve
- Cello – 8 + reserve
- Double bass – 6 + reserve
- Flute – 3 + reserve
- Hobo – 3 + reserve
- Clarinet – 3 + reserve
- Saxophone – 2 + reserve
- Bassoon – 3 + reserve
- Horn – 4 + reserve
- Trumpet – 3 + reserve
- Trombone – 3 + reserve
- Tuba – 1 + reserve
- Timpani – 1 + reserve
- Percussion – 5 + reserve
- Harp – 1 + reserve
- Piano/Celesta – 1 + reserve
Dates
Changes are still applicable based on registrations and logistical needs.
October 15: Harps – Piano/Celesta
October 16: Wind Instruments
October 17: Percussion / Timpani / Saxophone
October 22: Strings / Wind instruments
October 23: Strings / Wind instruments
October 24: Strings
Musical excerpts
The excerpts can be found on our website during the inscription process. All excerpts are mandatory. Soloist and leading positions will be assigned using the same excerpts.
Audition via video
You can’t join us on those dates, please contact us. You will then receive all the necessary information on how to submit your video audition.
Orchestra Projects 2025
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February 2025 – Ravel/Berg – Hindemith – Lambert – Eldar – in collaboration with OBVFull opera production with singers from IOA – Academie Antwerpen
Program
– Maurice Ravel – The child and the spells
– Excerpts from:
Sivan Eldar – Like meat
Paul Hindemith – Hin und zurück
Constant Lambert – Horoscope
Alban Berg – Lulu
Conductor – Karel Deseure
Dates:
Feb 09 – Feb 14: Coaching + Tutti rehearsal
Feb 15 – Feb 18: Opera pit rehearsal
Feb 20: Performance #1
Feb 21: Performance #2
Feb 22: Performance #3
Feb 23: Performance #4
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August 2025 – Gershwin/Bernstein – in collaboration with Antwerp Symphony Orchestra Program– George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue
– Leonard Bernstein – West Side Story Symphonic Dances
Conductor – Wayne Marshall
Dates:
August 17 – August 22: Coaching + Tutti rehearsal
August 23: Concert De Singel
August 24: Concert De Bijloke
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Coaches
Professional musicians at the Brussels Philharmonic, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen will be selecting and coaching the musicians of Youth Orchestra Flanders.
Registration criteria
Youth Orchestra Flanders has set itself the goal of facilitating the connection between the educational world and the professional field. The auditions are meant for students of the Belgian conservatories (regardless of their nationality or level). Talented Belgian musicians who are studying elsewhere (e.g. abroad) are also welcome to the auditions (age range: 15-26 years). These criteria are valid at the moment you take the audition, i.e. you can still join us if you turn 27 during 2025.
Evaluation
The evaluation will be carried out by the coaches of Youth Orchestra Flanders. If the student will be receiving academic credit for participating in the project, these credits will be granted by the conservatory based on the individual evaluation form that is provided by the coordinators of Youth Orchestra Flanders to the direction of the conservatory in question. For credits students should apply independently at their institution of education and preferably inform the orchestra’s coordinator.
Questions?
Contact info@youthorchestraflanders.be
