Vacancies

Advance notice audition concertmaster

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 (ADE). 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, Brien Eno, Stan Getz, 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, Vince Mendoza as honorary conductor, and Miho Hazama as permanent guest conductor, the internationally leading pop and jazz orchestra often collaborates with emerging talents and tends to love spectacles and experiments.

The audition will take place on Monday 4 March, 2025 in Hilversum. The vacancy will be published in the first few weeks of December.

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.

We reserve the right to make a pre-selection based on the applications.

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

Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not appreciated.