English festival seeks unprofessional musicians

The Buxton Festival is putting out a call for students to form its orchestra. They previously employed the orchestra of Opera North.

This is bad practice any way you look at it. The Musicians Union will protest at this dangerous precedent.

Here’s the Buxton shoutout.

Buxton International Festival is seeking 40 emerging instrumentalists to form the inaugural Buxton International Festival Orchestra

Closing date for applications is Friday 31st January so there’s still time to apply. If you have any questions, please contact: orchestramanager@buxtonfestival.co.uk

Don’t even think about it.

Applicants are expected to:
Rehearse and perform in Festival opera productions of Mozart’s The Impresario, conducted by Dame Jane Glover, and a double bill of Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and Poulenc’s La voix humaine conducted by Iwan Davies (Head of Festival Music)
Rehearse and perform in two symphonic concerts:
Mark Wigglesworth OBE and Sir Stephen Hough in Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat, Mozart Die Zauberflöte Overture, and Beethoven Symphony No 7
Dame Jane Glover and Braimah Kanneh-Mason in Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Prokofiev Symphony No 1 “Classical”, and Mozart Symphony No 41 “Jupiter.