Young Musicians’ Academy of the Athens State Orchestra, new academic year 2019-2020

It is with remarkable success that the third year of the ‘Young Musicians Academy of the Athens State Orchestra’, has come to an end. We fair well seventeen more talented young musicians, confident that we contributed to their formation to participate in auditions and competitions all over the world and to enroll in professional orchestras.

Eminent musicians of the Athens State Orchestra, distinguished soloists and conductors assumed this inspiring work.

All students have proven themselves worthy of the particularly demanding conditions, participating in regular concerts of the Orchestra, in Athens and in other cities, as well in chamber music concerts; they were embraced with the best comments by the audience and by musicians of the Orchestra, soloists and conductors.

Thanks are due to the foundation granter of the Academy, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, as well as to Athens Concert Hall Organization, which eagerly embraced this initiative since its beginning, offering the necessary additional venues for the programme.

For the year 2019-2020, we are in the pleasant position to invite six (6) more new musicians to enroll the Young Musicians’ Academy of the Athens State Orchestra, while the until lately freshmen of the Young Musicians’ Academy of the Athens State Orchestra in the classes of strings, percussion and harp, will continue in the second year of their studies.

Obligations of the second-year students (in Greek).

More specifically, the new members for the period 2019-2020 will be:

• 1 flute musician
• 1 oboe musician
• 1 clarinet musician
• 1 bassoon musician
• 1 horn musician
• 1 trumpet musician

Applications for this year will be accepted until Friday, 13/9/2019.

The auditions will take place in Thursday 19/9/2019 and in Friday 20/9/2019.

Application form (in Greek)

The application and the documents required may be sent either by post at the Athens State Orchestra (Vas. Sofias & Kokkali 1, 11521, Athens) or by email to the address academy@koa.gr

Obligations of first-year students and conditions for admission (in Greek)

AUDITIONS – REPERTOIRE

The procedure of the auditions will be held identically to the official auditions of the Athens State Orchestra for hiring its permanent artistic personnel.

For the audition of the soloist parts, each applicant should provide for his or her piano accompaniment.

Following you may find the repertoire for each instrument:

FLUTE
To download the soloist and orchestral excerpts for the flute (in Greek), click here.

OBOE
To download the soloist and orchestral excerpts for the oboe (in Greek), click here.

CLARINET
To download the soloist excerpts for the clarinet (in Greek), click here.
To download the orchestral excerpts for the clarinet (in Greek), click here.

BASSOON
Candidates for the bassoon will not be auditioned in orchestral excerpts.
To download the soloist excerpts for the bassoon (in Greek), click here.

TRUMPET
To download the soloist excerpts for the trumpet (in Greek), click here.
To download the orchestral excerpts for the trumpet (in Greek), click here.

HORN
To download the excerpts for the horn (in Greek), click here.