Call for instrumentalist auditions - Symphony Orchestra of the Milan Conservatory

Selections for staff expansion are announced of the Milan Conservatory Symphony Orchestra for productions academic year 2025 - 2026.

All students regularly enrolled in Saxophone courses at the Milan Conservatory for the academic year 2025 - 2026 may participate.

The instruments for which auditions are announced are as follows:

• Saxophones (all instruments in the family)

Candidates enrolled in any three-year course must already have attended (at the time of application) the first of the two compulsory semesters of Orchestral Exercises.

Auditions will be held on the following dates: Friday 13 February 2026, Puccini Hall, 2-8 p.m.

N.B. A detailed convocation schedule will follow once applications have been received.

The audition programme should be composed as follows:

• Performance of a solo saxophone piece of your choice
• Performance of orchestral passages according to the programme in the annex available at link

Applications should be submitted via jotform according to the following deadline:

• registration by Monday 09 February 2026, 12 noon:
• jotform

Students:

1. which will successfully pass the selections;
2. which will participate in at least three of the OSCoM productions scheduled for the academic year 2025 - 2026;
3. who will be awarded, at the sole discretion of a special commission appointed by the Director of the Conservatory, a positive evaluation of one's artistic growth path (consisting of rehearsals and concerts to which they will be invited);

will be the recipients of a Artistic Award (OSCoM Artistic Award) by euro 900 (nine hundred/00) disbursed in January 2027.

N.B.: Artistic prizes may be awarded at the discretion of the committee partials. These partial prizes will only be awarded to those who can participate in fewer than the three productions indicated in point 2 (see above) only for reasons pertaining to the organisation of the proposed concert programmes in the season, subject, however, to the positive final evaluation by the commission.

Participation in the orchestra's activities earns academic credits according to this criterion: