About the Orchestra Academy

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The BRSO Academy is one of the most sought-after institutions of its kind internationally – with a special feature: the scholarship holders live and study together for two years under one roof in a specially equipped building in the north of Munich, with living, practice and teaching rooms. Through a selection process, highly talented musicians from all over the world receive a scholarship – and ultimately a springboard for their career.

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Training

The Orchestra Academy offers young musicians a sound, two-year training for a career in an orchestra. The comprehensive preparation for the profession is reflected in the various training contents:

Participation in rehearsals and concerts of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Individual lessons from members of the orchestra
Special emphasis is placed on the performance of chamber music. Participants form ensembles in order to study the chamber repertoire and play it in recital.
Mental and physical coaching as well as yoga for musicians

Scholarship

The academy students receive a monthly stipend of EUR 650 during their time at the academy. They live free of charge in single flats in the academy building, with access to practice, rehearsal and common rooms.

Life in the academy building

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Admission conditions

The Orchestra Academy has a total of 18 training places to offer. An audition decides on admission. The documents (CV, photo, references, certificates) are to be submitted exclusively via the application platform muvac. The maximum age at the time of admission to the academy is 26 years.

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Successes of the graduates

200 young people overall have completed the two-year postgraduate programme and look back on their time in the Academy with great enthusiasm.

They consider it to have been “a tremendous opportunity to work with the best conductors and soloists, to go on tours and to make lots of discoveries”. Others emphasise that it was “an extremely important period of musical and personal development”.

Graduates of the Academy have engagements with renowned orchestras in Germany and abroad, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. Fifteen of them won auditions at the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks.

Successes of the scholarship holders

Fabian Jüngling, violin, won a position in the BRSO.

Ayaka Uchio, violin, won a position in the BRSO.

Eliza Wong, violin, won a position in the BRSO.

Chaemun Im, double bass, won a position in the BRSO and LSO.

Stefano Farulli, violin, has won a tutti position in the BRSO.

Hyelim Yoo, viola, has won a tutti position at the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.

Benedikt Neumann, trumpet, won a position at the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.

Sören Bindemann, violin, has won a tutti position at the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg.

Roman Kupriianov, trumpet, has won a position as principal trumpet at the National Theatre Orchestra Mannheim.

Christian Traute, trombone, won a soloist´s position (time contract) at Gärtnerplatztheater Munich.

Tamara Steinmetz, clarinet, has won the position of 1st clarinet at the National Theatre Orchestra Mannheim.

Mattia Riva, double bass, won a soloist´s position at Beethoven Orchester Bonn.

Ronja Macholdt, flute, won a soloist’s position at Luzerner Sinfonieorchester.

Laura Bortolotto, violin, won a tutti position at Mozarteumorchester Salzburg.

Jesús Pinillos Rivera, oboe, won a soloist’s position in the Deutsche Symphonie-orchestra Berlin (time contract).

Berat Efe Sivritepe, horn, won a position as third horn at Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Héctor Cámara Ruiz, viola, won a tutti position at the Tonhalle Zürich orchestra.

Laura Moinian, cello, won a position in the BRSO.

Andreu Sanjuan Albado, double bass, won a tutti position in the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid.

Blai Gumí Roca, double bass, won a soloist’s position in the Bavarian State Orchestra (Munich Opera).

Felix Eckert, trombone, won the soloist´s position in the BRSO.

Anne Weber, violin, won a tutti position in the Bamberg Symphony.

Valerie Schatz, double bass, won the audition in the Vienna Symphony.

Urška Kurbos, trumpet, won the position of second trumpet in the Gothenburg Symphony.

Andrés Otín Montaner, oboe, won a soloist’s position in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

Riccardo Cellacchi, flute, won the audition for principal flutist of the Berner Symphoniker.

Jesús Villa Ordóñez, bassoon, won the audition for second bassoon in the BRSO.

Sophia Herbig, violin, became the leader of the second violins in the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra.

Teodor Rusu, cello, won the soloist’s position in the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie in Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern.

Moritz Weigert, cello, won a tutti position in the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

Alexander Weisskopf, double bass, won a tutti position in the Munich Philharmonics.

Theresa Kling, viola, won a tutti position in the Munich Philharmonics.

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