Auditions

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

Please send applications for the Staatsorchester and Orchesterakademie vacant positions, where not otherwise specified, with the usual papers (cover letter, CV in tabular form with photo, and with the Orchesterakademie please be sure to provide date of birth and certificates if any – all papers as copies only, as they will not be returned) to:

Orchesterbüro der Bayerischen Staatsoper
PO box 100148
80075 Munich
or by e-mail to: [email protected]. 

For data protection reasons, please always send applications by e-mail in the PDF format.
Please do not send us links to cloud providers, but rather direct attachments in an e-mail only.

Please note: The application deadline is always two months before the posted audition date.

All applications for a position will be deleted after a successful audition.
No applications will be saved! Please only apply again when the position is advertised again.

Payment – according to the Bayerisches Staatsorchester’s inhouse wage agreement
Please direct further questions to the e-mail address provided above or by phone to:
Sarah Sedlmeir
+49 89 21 85 13 10

The Bayerische Staatsoper is committed to employing severely disabled people. Severely disabled applicants with essentially identical technical and personal suitability will be preferentially selected.

HERMANN LEVI ACADEMY AUDITIONS

VIOLIN - HERMANN LEVI ACADEMY
Start of contract: 15. October 2025
Date of the audition: 21. May 2025
Application deadline: 23. March 2025
Please send applications exclusively via muvac

CLARINET - HERMANN LEVI ACADEMY (German System Only)
Start of contract: 15. October 2025
Date of the audition: 13. March 2025, 10am
Application deadline: 19. January 2025
Please send applications exclusively via muvac

BASSOON - HERMANN LEVI ACADEMY
Start of contract: 01. April 2025
Date of the audition: 19. February 2025, 10am
Application deadline: 19. January 2025
Please send applications exclusively via muvac

TRUMPET - HERMANN LEVI ACADEMY
Start of contract: 15. October 2025
Date of the audition: 18. March 2025, 10am
Application deadline: 09. February 2025
Please send applications exclusively via [email protected]

TROMBONE - HERMANN LEVI ACADEMY
Start of contract: 15. October 2025
Date of the audition: 23. June 2025, 10am
Application deadline: 27. April 2025
Please send applications exclusively via muvac

TUBA - HERMANN LEVI ACADEMY
Start of contract: 15. October 2025
Date of the audition: 08.07.2025, 10am
Application deadline: 25.05.2025
Please send applications exclusively via muvac

HARP- HERMANN LEVI ACADEMY
Start of contract: 01. September 2025
Date of the audition: 26.March 2025, 10am
Application deadline: 28. January 2025
Please send applications exclusively via muvac

HERMANN LEVI ACADEMY APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

With applications for the Bayerisches Staatsorchester’s Hermann Levi Academy please note:
●    Applicants must still be 25 when the scholarship begins.
●    Application requirement – completed higher education or comparable training level
●    Monthly scholarship of EUR 1,000
●    Training period – two years

Training includes:
●    Up to ten orchestral duties per month (opera, concert, ballet)
●    Weekly instrumental lessons
●    Regular workshops and one-on-one classes in “mental training” with graduate psychologist Ulrike Klees
●    Two or three chamber concerts per season
●    Baroque workshops

Please note: The application deadline is always one month before the posted audition date.

Please send applications to the following address:
Orchesterbüro des Bayerischen Staatsorchesters
Max-Joseph-Platz 2
80539 Munich
[email protected]
+49 89 21 85 13 10
+49 89 21 85 13 33 (Fax)

Bayerisches Staatsorchester

General Music Director Vladimir Jurowski
Honorary Conductors of the Musical Academy of the Bayerisches Staatsorchesters e. V., Zubin Mehta, Kirill Petrenko

You will find further information on the Bayerisches Staatsorchester at www.staatsoper.de/staatsorchester 

The Bayerische Staatsoper is committed to employing severely disabled people. Severely disabled applicants with essentially identical technical and personal suitability will be preferentially selected.