Job of the Week: Travelling Mahler
OrchestrasProject Manager at the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, based in Berlin, 20-30 hours a week:
Do you love working in an international classical music environment? Is keeping several balls in the air at once a challenge that you actually enjoy? If you are also team-spirited, well-organized, and a hands-on personality, this could be the job for you:
Join the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, one of the world’s leading chamber orchestras, as a Project and Tour Manager in our Berlin office. (But don’t be mistaken: regular travel is one of the many exciting aspects of this position.)
Apply here.
I wish I was younger….
Admin and logistics – very little to do with the actual music
But nevertheless essential to having the music!
Sure – except you get to hang out with musicians and attend concerts all over the world. If you’re a music fan, there are far worse jobs.
And by that standard, apart from the musicians themselves, the MD (not at the MCO), and the programming director, there are very few jobs in an orchestra that have anything to do with “the actual music.”
I have always believed that ‘Mahler Chamber Orchestra’ is an oxymoron! A bit like having a ‘Scott Joplin Symphony Orchestra’ or a ‘Wagner String Quartet’…
A Pierre Boulez Dance Band.
Just as an f.y.i. Mahler did use a smaller, chamber sized orchestra for presenting a series of songs that were mostly centered around those from his “Des Knaben Wunderhorn” collection. They were performed with different singers in a smaller room within the Musikverein in Vienna. Thomas Hampson has attempted to copy that with his own recording of the “Wunderhorn” songs on DG.