Auditions

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

Applications for vacant positions in the Statatsorchester and the Hermann Levi Academy - unless otherwise stated - should be uploaded to muvac with the usual documents (cover letter, curriculum vitae in tabular form and, in the case of the Orchestra Academy, please do not forget to include your date of birth, certificates if applicable).

If requested, please send copies of your documents (as they cannot 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 about 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

TUBA - HERMANN LEVI ACADEMY
Start of contract: Term 2025/2026
Date of the audition: 08. July 2025, 2pm
Application deadline: 11. May 2025
Please send applications exclusively via muvac

DOUBLE BASS - HERMANN LEVI ACADEMY 
Start of contract: 01. February 2026
Date of the audition: 02. December, 10am
Application deadline: 12. October 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.