Years ago you could audition for an orchestra position and it was almost a job for life - just in the same way you could get an administrative job in a company and you would have a job for life. Well it's only fair that orchestra musicians should now face the same job security pressures that their highly skilled white collar bretheren have faced for years now.Title chair players are paid over scale, so yes, the principal second would earn more than a section first. I have heard that some of the regional orchestras rotate between the first and second violin sections as well, so that violinists don't always play just first or second - perhaps some one else can provide details, if that is indeed the case. Other orchestras use revolving seating, meaning that players (other than the title chair players) rotate within the section from week to week, so that no one is stuck sitting in a particular stand all the time. If you audition for last stand and win, that is what you play. Some orchestras have fixed seating, and the chair you win is the chair you play. Seating within the section varies depending on the orchestra. (Orchestra members are often permitted to skip the prelimary round, but they audition in the finals along with any other finalists.) If another position opens up - let's say, an assistant concertmaster retires or moves to another orchestra - the position is advertised and any members of the orchestra who are interested in that position must audition along with everyone else. If you audition and win a section first opening, that will be your seat. If you audition for principal second and win the audition, you play principal second. So if you audition for a section second violin position and win the audition, you play section second violin. In a professional orchestra, players are not placed by the music director - the seat you audition for and win is the seat you play unless you choose to audition for another.does the 2nd violin principle have a higher salary than the last chair of 1st violin section? could you tell me how those auditions and the seating work in violin sections? Furthermore, if im rite. I was thinking that the good half of violins goto 1st violin section and the rest get placed in the 2nd violin section.Īm i wrong? and if any of you are part of great orchestras. Not generalizing in any kind of way here, but to me the 2nd violin's principle seemed like a better player than the last chair of 1st violin. my observations while watching the two violin sections was that the last 5ppl in the 1st violin seemed to have less energy and worse posture than the 1st few seats of the 2nd violin section. esply for the 1st and second violin section. When professional or most high level orchestras do their seatings. hello, i dont know if i am the only person now knowing about this topic, but i am so curious.is better than last chair of 1st vln section?
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