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Are you at least 18 years old?
Do you study music at a recognised music institute of higher education?
Are you eager to gain professional experience and, at the same time, share a unique human and cultural project?
If you answered Yes! To these questions then you are qualified to apply for the Euroasia Symphony Orchestra.
In order to enhance mutual understanding between European and Asian cultures, the Member States of the European Union and several Asian countries are combining their efforts in order to establish an EU-Asia Orchestra, in which experienced master-musicians make music together with highly talented young people. In this sense, it is intended to create a common project of cooperation between preferably all countries of the European Union and Asia.
The aim of this unique cooperation is to bring together people who share an enthusiasm for making music and who are willing to bridge their cultural, linguistic and social differences through music. Each of the countries participating in the project has accepted to provide two or three musicians each, totalling around 100 musicians from 40-45 different countries.
When? Where?
The next orchestra session will take place from the 5th to the 14th of August, 2010 in Seoul (South Korea), potentially followed by a concert tour up to 8 days (in this case, the return will be on August, 23rd).
What?
The performed program will be Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony ("Resurrection") and - with regard to the Belgium presidency of the European Union in this time - the Adagio for String Orchestra by the Belgium composer Guillaume Lekeu.
Who?
The project manager is Mr. Sey-Young Chung (Korea),
Euro Culture Center Co., Ltd.
307 Daeyang Bldg. 12-17
Jamwon Dong, Seocho Gu, Seoul, Korea
Tel. +82 (0)2 545-7966
Email: chung@eurocenter.co.kr
Homepage: www.eamf.kr
Mr. Chung is the initiator of the project. He and his team will be responsible for the project's logistics (accommodation, food, rehearsal rooms, etc.) and for the local sponsoring.
The artistic director / conductor is Elahiu von Erlenbach who will be responsible for the final decision concerning selected musicians. For more details, go to www.blueorchid.de/uk/elahiu/ or to www.elahiu-von-erlenbach.com.
The Belgian Embassy in Korea will facilitate the general coordination of the project being in charge of the contact between the EU embassies in Seoul as well as with the Asian embassies.
Recruitment of musicians from EU member states will be handled by Jeunesses Musicales International.
Coaching for the strings will be provided by members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (violin, viola, violoncello) and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra (double bass), and by members of the Quartz Ensemble (Belgium) for the wind sections.
Selection criteria?
In order to apply for participation in the orchestra, young musicians (over 18) must be registered students in a recognized music institution (Conservatory, Musikhochschule, etc.).
The musicians will be selected based on their technical skills and virtuous playing. Given the short time for the selection of the musicians, the auditions will be conducted based on the overall quality, talent and educational level and skill of the applying musicians, without predefined scores of music. Interested musicians should submit three solo pieces demonstrating their ability to work and perform in an orchestra on CD or DVD. The pieces should be selected ad-libitum, by the students themselves, taking into consideration the level and the difficulty of the actual program to be performed during the rehearsals and the concerts.
A jury composed of JMI members and musicians from Belgium will audition the recordings and will submit a draft-selection of musicians to Maestro Elahiu von Erlenbach, the musical director of the orchestra who will make the final choice.
Instruments profile:
We are looking for the following instruments, bearing in mind that all sections should in principle be composed of a mix of European and Asian musicians:
Wood Winds
4 Flutes (all of them alternating on Piccolo)
4 Oboes (two players alternating on English horn)
5 Clarinets (B, A, C) (one player alternating on Bass Clarinet, one player alternating on Es-Clarinet, one player only plays Es-Clarinet)
4 Bassoons (one player alternating on Contrabassoon)
Brass
10 Horns
8 Trumpets (6 players may be enough)
4 Trombones
1 Tuba
Percussion (including three Timpani players)
7 Timpani, six (three players) onstage, one offstage
2 Pairs of Cymbals (one offstage)
2 Triangles (one offstage)
Side Drum (more than one, where possible)
Glockenspiel
3 Bells (steel rods with deep, unpitched sound)
2 Bass Drums (one offstage), with Switch
2 Tam-tams (high and low)
Organ (may imitated by Synthesizer)
Strings
16 first violins
14 second violins
12 violas
10 violoncellos
8 contrabasses (several with low C-string)
2 Harps
Cost coverage
The governments of the EU member states involved will cover the travel costs in most cases of the musicians representing their nation. The Korean organiser will cover all costs concerning accommodation and meals for the entire duration of the session.
How to apply?
Interested, talented musicians are invited to apply by sending their CV / biography and 3 quality MP3 recordings (CD or DVD) by 1st March 2010 as well as a signed form from their immediate teacher / professor and academic institution certifying the originality of the recording.
Recordings should be sent to the national Jeunesses Musicales member in their country of origin / study. Please consult www.jmi.net for the list of member organizations and their addresses. If a national JM Member section is not available, musicians should send their recordings directly to the JMI Head Office in Brussels at the following address:
ATT: AUDITIONS, EU-ASIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Jeunesses Musicales International (JMI)
Palais des Beaux-Arts
Rue Baron Horta 13
1000 Brussels
Belgium
or submit your application electronically to emilie@jmi.net. You will receive electronic confirmation of your application, once JMI has received it.
