YAKIMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Brooke Creswell, Helen N. Jewett Music Director

PRINCIPAL TROMBONE VACANCY

The Yakima Symphony Orchestra will perform up to 30 services in the 08-09 season involving trombone from October through April. Compensation is on a per-service basis. This is a tenure track position. The process of selecting principal positions as prescribed in the YSO Players’ Handbook is printed on the back of this announcement.

Auditions will be held in Yakima, WA on Monday, June 30, 2008. Recorded auditions may be accepted only under exceptional circumstances.

Audition Requirements

I. Required Solo: Unaccompanied solo of player’s choice between 3 and 5 minutes duration

II. Excerpts: Mozart Requiem (2^nd trombone)

Ravel Bolero

Stravinsky The Firebird

Rossini Overture to William Tell

Brahms Symphony No. 4

Interested parties, please submit a résumé with references by post, email, or fax to

Lisa Rushton Smith, Personnel Manager

Yakima Symphony Orchestra

32 North Third Street, Suite 333

Yakima, WA 98901

lisa@yakimasymphony.org

509-457-0980 (FAX)

For further information: 509-945-5590

Deadline for receipt of résumés is June 20, 2008.
Recruitment and audition procedures for principal positions

1.1. Announcements of vacancies for principal positions will be publicized at least 45 days before the audition date through normal professional channels.

1.2. An audition committee for the process of filling principal player vacancies will consist of the music director, four tenured principals appointed by the music director to include at least two from the same family as the applicant (string, woodwind, brass, percussion/keyboard). If only one tenured principal from the same family is available, the auditions and hiring may proceed with only one tenured principal player from that family serving on the audition committee. In the case of principal string positions one section player from the section for which the vacancy exists may replace a non-string principal at the discretion of the music director.

1.3. Candidates for principal positions will submit, to the personnel manager, resumes including three professional references. The music director or audition committee must also request a recorded performance or audition.

1.4. Auditions to screen candidates for principal positions will be conducted in the same manner as auditions for section positions except that the committee who screened applications will serve as audition committee.

1.5. Candidates qualified by majority vote of the audition committee will be invited to play a complete rehearsal/performance series for a subscription concert.

1.6. Acting in advisory capacity to the audition committee the section will rate each candidate by a uniform questionnaire approved by the audition committee.

1.7. The audition committee will meet and record its impressions immediately following each performance.

1.8. Any player may submit observations regarding candidates to the audition committee.

1.9. If fewer than five candidates are invited to perform with the orchestra, the process may be shortened.

1.10. After all finalist candidates have completed their audition performances with the orchestra, the audition committee will select the player to be offered the position. The final decision of the committee will be taken by majority vote in secret ballot.

1.11. Decisions will be announced no later than one month following the final subscription performance of this process.

1.12. If, for any reason, the successful candidate does not accept the position, the audition committee, by majority vote, may choose to offer the position to another of the candidates auditioned or to open the position to new applicants under the process outlined above.

1.13. The music director may make a probationary appointment to a principal position. However, the granting of tenure for this appointment is subject to the provisions of paragraph 3.1.2.