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.
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.
Dimitis Toufexis soloist at the concert 'Tribute to Skalkottas's Year'
Our beloved, internationally acknowledged Greek pianist, Dimitris Toufexis, has been extraordinarily invited to replace the eminent Nelson Freire who, due to health reasons, canceled his participation at the concert 'Tribute to Skalkottas's Υear', which will be held οn Friday, February 15th, at 20:30 in Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall.
Dimitris Toufexis will interpret Sergei Rachmaninoff`s Piano Concerto no. 2, one of the most popular pieces of all times, distinguished for its melodic richness, the honesty of its feelings but also for its brilliant demanding score.
To replace or refund tickets, you are kindly requested to contact the Box Office of Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall (210-7282 333).
A commitment that remains valid
The Athens State Orchestra is in the particularly unpleasant position to postpone the benefit concert for the victims of recent wildfires, scheduled to be held on Thursday, November 8th, 2018. Unfortunately, the virus that troubles hundreds of us, also affected the conductor of the soiree, Stefanos Tsialis.
We will soon let you know how the undeviating commitment of the Orchestra to support our fellow citizens, victims of the devastating wildfire in Eastern Attica, will be fulfilled.
Ticket holders are kindly requested to contact the Box Office of Megaron - the Athens Concert Hall (tel.: 2107282333) for information about the refund of their tickets.
Ten new students for the Young Musicians’ Academy of the Athens State Orchestra
After two years of an extraordinary successful presence and having already bid farewell to the first fourteen students of the Young Musicians’ Academy of the Athens State Orchestra, we are in the very pleasant position to welcome ten more students, who passed with success the auditions that took place on Monday, September 8th and on Tuesday October 10th, 2018.
Very warm congratulations to:
Bourgiotis Platon-Nikolaos (violin)
Revithis Evangelos (violin)
Rousochatzaki Phivi (violin)
Papapanagiotou Vasilios (viola)
Kostourou Semeli-Sophia (cello)
Sidiropoulos-Vellidis Errikos (double bass)
Karatsolis Petros (trombone)
Brendanos Eleftherios (tuba)
Madikas Georgios (percussion)
Peleki Ilektra (harp)
New date for the Audition for Principal A' in Cellos
Athens State Orchestra announces that the date of the audition in order to cover the position of a Principal A’ in the family of Cellos, with a service contract for each concert, has been rescheduled and the audition will take place on Friday, November 9th, 2018.
Audition for a Principal A' in Cellos, November 2018
The Athens State Orchestra is proclaiming an audition in order to cover the position of a Principal A’ in the family of Cellos, with a service contract for each concert.
These service contract comply with the regulations of the current Greek legislation
The audition will take place in the rehearsal hall of the Athens State Orchestra (Megaron – the Athens Concert Hall) on Friday, November 9th, 2018 at 10:00 am. A detailed program of the audition will be announced after the end of application submission.
Candidates will be examined in the following programme:
B. F.J.Haydn, Concerto in D major, the first movement (with cadenza)
Γ. J.S.Bach, Sarabande (with the first repetition) from one of Bach's cello suites, except the first one.
They will also be examined in chosen fragments from orchestral pieces, copies of which will be available for the candidates at the administration offices of the Athens State Orchestra from Friday, October 19th, 2018. You may also download the orchestral excerpts here.The Committee maintains the right, also depending on the number of candidates, to hold the audition in two phases, in its own judgment.
Each candidate should provide his or her piano accompaniment. Applications, accompanied by a brief CV, must be submitted until Friday November 2nd, 2018, either at the administration offices of the Athens State Orchestra (Vassilissis Sofias & Kokkali 1, 11521, Athens) or by email to the address (papostolidis@koa.gr).
You can download an application form in Greek here.
David Geringas in the concert of October 5th, 2018
Due to health reasons, the great cellist Natalia Gutman will not be able to participate as a soloist in the opening concert of the Athens State Orchestra’s cycle “Skalkottas and his contemporaries” on Friday, October 5th, 2018. We wish her a prompt recovery and we hope for a future renewal of our collaboration.
We therefore wish to inform you that Antonín Dvořák’s “Concerto for cello and orchestra in B minor, opus 104” will be interpreted by the internationally acknowledged cellist David Geringas, in his first appearance in our country.
To replace your tickets or get a refund, please contact the box office of Megaron - The Athens Concert Hall (210-7282 333), until Wednesday, October 3rd. For further information or clarification, we remain at your disposal.
Cancellation of the concert 'Dancing' in the National Archeological Museum
The Athens State Orchestra has to cancel the concert scheduled for today, Monday, April the 23d, "Musical Promenades in the Museums - Dancing", in the National Archeological Museum. The concert will not be held, due to reasons beyond our capability.
We will soon inform you about the new date of Quintarco's concert.
New schedule of auditions
The Athens State Orchestra, due to the amount of applications submitted for the competition of permanent artistic personnel, defined a new schedule of examination as following:
MARCH 2018
17 / 3 / 2018 Oboe, 2nd Principal (with obligation to cor anglais)
18 / 3 / 2018 Bassoon, 2nd Principal (with obligation to contrabassoon)
26 and 27 / 3 / 2018 2nd Violin, tutti
29 / 3 / 2018 2nd Violin, 2nd Principal
30 / 3 / 2018 Cello, 2nd Principal
MAY 2018
17 / 5 / 2018 Double Bass, tutti
18 / 5 / 2018 Double Bass, 2nd Principal
19 / 5 / 2018 Double Bass, 1st Principal
JUNE 2018
4 / 6 / 2018 Percussion, 2nd Principal (with obligation to timpani)
5 / 6 / 2018 Viola, tutti
6 / 6 / 2018 Viola, 2nd Principal
7 / 6 / 2018 Viola, 1st Principal
Competition of permanent Musicians: clarification
We call the prospective candidates’ attention to the fact that the above statement is valid for all Musicians, regardless of the category and the instrument in which they intend to be examined.
For instance, a Musician who is willing to participate to the competition of 2nd Prinicpal in percussion with obligation to timpani, and thus will be examined by the Committee in June 6th, must submit his / her application until March 9th, 2018, i.e. within the same lead time with Musicians who are willing to participate to the competition of 2nd Principal in oboe and who will be examined by the Committee in March 17th.