BRSO Academy: training programme
A concert of the Orchestra Academy of the BRSO with Lorin Maazel in Ingolstadt 1994.
All in 200 young people have completed the two-year postgraduate programme and look back on their time in the Academy with great excitement. 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”.
The comprehensive professional preparation is reflected in the broad range of the training programme: students participate in rehearsals and concerts of the Bavarian RSO, take lessons with its members, study works of chamber music and present them in public recitals. Mental coaching is also part of the programme.
Academy graduates have found jobs with leading orchestras in Germany and abroad, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Hamburg PO and the London Symphony. Thirteen of them have successfully landed in the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Prerequisites
The Orchestra Academy has 18 spots available for trainees. They are divided among the instrument families as follows:
4 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, 2 double basses
1 flute, 1 oboe, 1 clarinet (German system), 1 bassoon, 1 trumpet, 1 French horn, 1 trombone/tuba
1 timpani/percussion
Acceptance into the programme is decided by audition. All application materials (curriculum vitae, photograph, grade reports, certificates) must be submitted via the application platform muvac.
To the application platform muvac
The maximum age for applicants is 26 years at time of acceptance.
Scholarships
The training period lasts two years altogether. During this time Academy participants receive a monthly scholarship of EUR 650 as well as free lodging in the Academy Building.
Training
Participants receive 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.
Participants have the opportunity to take part in rehearsals and concerts of the Bavarian RSO.
The goal of the training programme is to prepare participants to audition for a spot in an orchestra. Mental and physical coaching form part of the programme.
Life in the academy building
During the training period participants live in single-room apartments in the Academy Building with access to practice and rehearsal rooms.
