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Info for musicians interested in joining Polyphonia

If you are interested in joining Polyphonia, you might first want to take a look at the programme of the upcoming project and the rehearsal plan. It’s best if you take a little time to read through this. This is the best way to get an idea of our spirit.

Open Positions for the Autumn Semester 2024

Open Positions for the Spring Semester 2025

The recruitment process for the current autumn project has been completed. For the upcoming spring project, we are looking for the following instruments:

The admission process

If you play a string instrument, we will invite you to a quartet evening where you will play excerpts from a former program with the section leaders of the orchestra. This will allow you to get a feel for playing together in the orchestra and get to know us. This quartet evening for strings generally takes place on the first Tuesday of the semester. You can find the excerpts here:

You may look at the excerpts without any obligation and can then decide if you want to play the first or second violin part.

For the wind instruments, the type of admission process depends on the instrument we are looking for - just contact us if you are interested!

Why an audition?

The fact is that we have to decide whether to accept you into the orchestra based on your quartet playing. But don’t worry: we all know that such an audition is generally an unpleasant situation. So that you don’t have to audition all by yourself, we do it in a quartet for the strings, as stated above. Everyone has sometimes a bad day - but we are all very benevolent and try to make this quartet evening as pleasant as possible for you. Music is a universal language and connects people - that’s another reason why we, as a symphony orchestra, take this approach to get to know you for the first time. Have we piqued your interest? Then we look forward to hearing from you by e-mail (see below).

Rehearsal mode

During the semester, we rehearse every Wednesday from 6pm to 9pm. Not all instruments need to be present during all rehearsals. This applies to you if you play e.g. a brass instrument or percussion. Check the rehearsal plan for details (it may not be very detailed right now, but it will be updated as the project progresses).

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us!

Email

coendtradintact@polyphonia.ch

Postal address

Universitätsorchester Polyphonia Zürich
c/o VSUZH
Rämistrasse 62
8001 Zürich