Auditions

Symphony of the Rockies (formerly Arapahoe Philharmonic) encourages all musicians, professional and amateur alike to join our ranks and our mission to engage, enrich, and inspire.

For any professional, pre-professional, student, or gifted amateur musician looking to cultivate their musical and performance skills, the Arapahoe Philharmonic provides artistic development for all of our orchestra members.

Auditions for the 24-25 season are ongoing.

Audition Instructions

For Section players (including all strings), please prepare 5-8 contrasting standard orchestral excerpts of your choice five by video or audio (Google Drive or YouTube are preferred) Each excerpt can be a different video file. Please contact us if you need guidance in choosing the excerpts.

Upload the videos to Google Drive, an email the link to the folder and your resume to personnel@arapahoe-phil.org

Video and audio should be recorded in highest quality possible.

You will be contacted with next steps

Current Openings

Concertmaster/Leader: Application Instructions

  • Pay is 170-250/service with a 50 service guarantee, more services may be offered.

  • You may, if you choose, record each solo and excerpt as a separate video and splice the videos together. However, please no editing within each selection.

  • Highly qualified candidates are encouraged to audition for our sister organization, “Boulder Symphony,” concertmaster position.

  • Finalists will be invited to perform with Symphony of the Rockies during the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons.

Section Horn

Section Violin

Section Cello

Auditions for instruments not listed above will be heard for the sub list as opportunity allows. Check back for other opportunities throughout the year.