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University Orchestra Polyphonia Zürich

For the Fall Semester 2025, we are looking for:

If you’re interested, send us an email at [kontakt@polyphonia.ch] with your name and instrument. We’ll get back to you at the end of August with detailed information about the audition, which will take place at the beginning of the semester. We look forward to hearing from you!

String Instrument Auditions

Auditions for string players take place in the format of a quartet evening. Together with the section leaders of the orchestra, you’ll play excerpts from a previous concert program. This gives you the chance to get a feel for ensemble playing within the orchestra and for us to get to know you. The quartet audition usually takes place on the first Tuesday of the semester. Further information and excerpts will be published here at a later date.

About Us

The University Orchestra Polyphonia Zürich is a symphonic student orchestra made up of students and staff from ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich. Each semester during the lecture period, we rehearse a program from the classical orchestral repertoire and perform them in concerts at the end of the semester. Since our founding, we have combined the joy of making music together with the ambition to interpret classical works at a satisfying musical level.

Our approximately 60 members come from a wide range of academic disciplines and study programs, from Bachelor’s to PhD. We also have many international students among us, so promoting exchange and interaction is especially important to us. We rehearse during the semester in English, every Wednesday from 6 to 9 p.m. You can find the exact rehearsal plan for the spring semester 2024 here.