Thierry Fischer, Music Director

Announces the following vacancies:

4 VIOLIN POSTIONS

September 9, 2012 – Prelininary Round

September 10, 2012 – Semi-Final and Final Rounds

Resumes due by: June 1, 2012

PRINCIPAL TRUMPET

September 16, 2012 – Preliminary Round

September 17, 2012 – Semi-Final and Final Rounds

Resumes due by: June 1, 2012

BASS TROMBONE

September 23, 2012 – Preliminary Round

September 24, 2012 – Semi-Final and Final Rounds

Resumes due by: June 1, 2012

***52 WEEK SEASON***

Highly qualified applicants should send a one-page resume, including current mailing address, email address and telephone number to:

Eric V. Johnson, Director of Orchestra Personnel

Utah Symphony / Utah Opera

123 West South Temple

Salt Lake City, UT 84101-1496

Fax: 801-869-9026 / Email: auditioins@uso.org

NO PHONE CALLS, PLEASE

Employment to begin September 2013, or as the winning candidate’s availability and the Utah Symphony / Utah Opera schedule allow.

The Utah Symphony / Utah Opera is an equal opportunity employer. The Audition Committe of the Utah Symphony / Utah Opera reserves the right to dismiss, immediately, any candidate not meeting the highest professional standards at these auditions.

2941 Oakwood Drive

Bountiful, UT 84010

801-295-8705; Cell-801-706-4151

dabasinger@earthlink.net

March 30, 2012

The UCO announces auditions for the position of PRINCIPAL CLARINET.

The auditions are to be held on June 2, 2012 at 1 p.m.

Highly qualified candidates should email a one-page resume by  April 27, 2012, to dabasinger@earthlink.net.

The selected candidate needs to be available for the attached schedule of 67 services for the 2012-13 season, except for the Nutcracker portion, where some flexibility is allowed.

Donald Basinger

Personnel Manager

The election season is in full swing and the craziness is in full swing as well.   It seems that every cycle the longest stretch is the relatively short time between the first primary and the last one.  There seems to be something about elections that brings out the loonies on all sides.

Regardless of our personal leanings there are several questions we as union musicians should be asking of our candidates:

1.      How are you going to go to bat for me?

2.  What are you going to do to help keep my union strong?

3. What are you going to do to continue the fight to ease the restrictions on travel that I face when I carry my instrument?

4.  Are you going to help keep music and the other arts alive and funded?

5.  What commitment are you going to make to see to it that established retirement programs, public and private, are going to remain healthy and viable through my retirement?

6. Your questions here.

All of us in one way or another are dependent on the whims of politicians and policy makers to keep the coffers that support our livelihood open and flowing freely.  Without adequate funding even the most major orchestras whither and die, dance companies switch to taped music, theatres close and theatre companies disband.  That funding comes from grants and donations.  If the stock market drops, so does the amount of interest money available to big pocket donors, therefore the donation amounts dwindle.  If the party in power doesn’t respect the importance of the arts funding for them will drop.

When the economy is weak job pay suffers.  A person making less money is going to be less likely to visit a club that has live music.  Without the money from a cover charge the club won’t be able to continue to pay musicians.  So there will be fewer musicians working.  We need to insist that the slowly improving economy keep improving so we can keep working.

I hope you will be at the forefront this season.  Contact your respective political party and make your concerns known.  Ask questions.  Write letters.  Send email.  Be a loud voice for our profession.  We need you.

Fraternally yours,

Mike Palumbo