Every year, the Casting team casts its nets far and wide to find hundreds of artists to meet the needs of current shows and upcoming creations. Holding auditions all over the world allows us to discover and assess new artists. If there are no auditions in your discipline and/or region, we nevertheless invite you to apply online any time so your application can be evaluated by a talent scout. Audition for percussionists will be in April in Sweden. For more information please look: https://www.cirquedusoleil.com/en/jobs/casting/disciplines/musicians/percussion-instruments.aspx

The Tokyo Symphony orchestra announces the opening for the position of timpani & percussion. For more information please visit: http://tokyosymphony.jp/pc/aboutTSO/adoption/recruit_1.html#english

Verbier Festival Orchestra Applications 2017 The Verbier Festival Orchestra is one of the most renowned training orchestras in the world. Its participants receive a unique insight into orchestral playing of the highest level through intensive coaching from principal members of New York’s Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. The 2017 programme will run from 1 July to 6 August. Following the coaching period, the orchestra performs six concerts during the Festival, which will be conducted by Music Director Charles Dutoit, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Antonio Pappano, Gianandrea Noseda, and Mikhail Pletnev. Each place in the orchestra is fully-funded by the festival (including travel costs). Auditions will take place from mid-January until the beginning of March in the following cities: Budapest, Cologne, Geneva, Madrid, Moscow, New York, Paris, Stockholm, Zürich Application periods: – Live auditions: 13 October 2016 – 3 January 2017 – Video auditions: 13 October 2016 – 31 January 2017 For more information please visit: https://www.verbierfestival.com/en/orchestra-2017-apply/