Vacancies

Audition: 4 March 2025

The Metropole Orkest (MO) plays pop, jazz, dance, global, and film music. Every concert is unique, and together with different (inter)national artists the orchestra plays for diverse audiences in national and international theatres. Among other things, the MO is a regular guest at festivals such as North Sea Jazz and Amsterdam Dance Event. The orchestra is highly respected internationally: since 2014 they regularly perform abroad, and they have been nominated 24 times for a Grammy, of which they won four. The MO shared the stage with greats such as Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Al Jarreau, Herbie Hancock, and Steve Vai, while it also collaborates with current leading musicians such as Michael League, Laura Mvula, Jacob Collier, Gregory Porter, Tinlicker, DOMi & JD Beck, and Tank and the Bangas. With Jules Buckley as their chief conductor, the internationally leading pop and jazz orchestra often collaborates with emerging talents and tends to love spectacles and experiments.

As the concertmaster you are responsibility for the realisation of the artistic ambitions of the orchestra, including by motivating and inspiring colleagues, and in that context you are a sparring partner for the management, chief conductor or guest conductor, producers and principals.

Obligatory work:

• 1^st part (exposition) of Mozart violin concerto no. 4 or no. 5

* The orchestral MO parts will be sent 3 weeks before the audition. We reserve the right to make a pre-selection based on the applications.

Musicians from in- and outside of the EU are invited to audition. Musicians who hold the nationality of a country from within the EU (excluding Croatia), Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, or Switzerland, can be appointed without the need of additional work and residence permits. The appointment of musicians who hold a nationality form outside of the EU (excluding Croatia), Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, or from Switzerland, takes place exclusively after showing or obtaining the necessary work and residence permits.

Employment Conditions:
Initial appointment will be for 12 months, with the prospect of a permanent appointment after interim evaluations. Salary in accordance with the collective labor agreement of the Stichting Metropole Orkest.

Is this your job? Apply before 2 February 2025 by sending your motivation through a video and your CV to vacature@mo.nl attn. Caspar Abbenhuis.

For more information you can contact us through vacature@mo.nl

Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not appreciated.