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SUMMARY:WPS Auditions: Second Clarinet
DESCRIPTION:Western Piedmont Symphony announces auditions on Sunday\, August 25\, 2024\, for the following vacancies: \nSECOND CLARINET\n  \nAudition date: Sunday\, August 25\, 2024 \nApplication deadline: Friday\, August 16\, 2024 \nHow to apply: Send a one-page performance résumé (.PDF) to WPS Operations and Education Manager Avery Bumgarner: ops@wpsymphony.org \nAuditions will be held at: Western Piedmont Symphony Offices at the SALT Block \n243 Third Ave. NE\, Suite 1-N\, Hickory\, NC 28601 \n  \nAudition repertoire and information: \nWPS Audition Information-Second Clarinet Aug 2024 \n  \nNo phone calls\, please. \nOnly highly qualified candidates should apply. \nThe winning candidate must be able to provide proof of eligibility to work in the U.S.A. before an offer of contract is made. \nWestern Piedmont Symphony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. \nWestern Piedmont Symphony is a regional professional per-service orchestra.
URL:https://wpsymphony.org/event/wps-auditions-second-clarinet/
LOCATION:Western Piedmont Symphony\, 243 Third Ave NE\, Hickory\, NC\, 28601\, United States
CATEGORIES:Auditions,Western Piedmont Symphony
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SUMMARY:AppSummerFest: An Evening with Natalie Merchant with Western Piedmont Symphony --- SOLD OUT!
DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT! Tickets on sale at Appalachian Summer Festival. \nAn Evening with Natalie Merchant: Keep Your Courage Tour with live accompaniment by WESTERN PIEDMONT SYMPHONY \n\n\n\n\n\n“An artist with a singular voice and vision. Time has only amplified the power of Merchant’s music.” —Mojo \n“One of the most successful and enduring alternative artists to emerge from the eighties intact and uncompromised.” —Vogue \nIn celebration of her ninth studio album\, Keep Your Courage\, ’80s superstar singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant comes to Boone\, accompanied by Hickory\, NC’s Western Piedmont Symphony. \nMerchant writes in her album’s liner notes\, “The songs contained within this album were written and recorded during the global pandemic that began in the winter of 2019 and is in its fifth wave as I write\, in the autumn of 2022. It has been\, and continues to be\, a period of great flux and fear on every level: global\, national\, communal\, familial\, personal. But this is not an album about the coronavirus or the chaos it caused. For the most part\, this is an album about the human heart.” She continues. “The word ‘courage’ has its root in the Latin word for heart\, cor\, and we see it over and over in many languages: le coeur\, il cuore\, o coração\, el corazón. This is a song cycle that maps the journey of a courageous heart.”
URL:https://wpsymphony.org/event/appsummerfest-an-evening-with-natalie-merchant-with-western-piedmont-symphony/
LOCATION:Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts\, 733 Rivers St.\, Boone\, NC\, 28608\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events,Western Piedmont Symphony
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SUMMARY:WPS Auditions: Principal Trombone\, Third Trumpet
DESCRIPTION:Announcing the following vacancies for the 24-25 season: \nPrincipal Trombone \nThird Trumpet \n  \nAudition repertoire and more information available at wpsymphony.org/employment/#orchestra-audition \n\n\n\n\n\nAudition Date: Sunday\, June 2\, 2024 \n\n\n\n\n\nApplication Deadline: Sunday\, May 19\, 2024 \nSend a one-page performance résumé to WPS Orchestra Personnel Manager: pm@wpsymphony.org \nAuditions will be held at: Western Piedmont Symphony Offices at the SALT Block \n243 Third Ave. NE.\, Suite 1-N\, Hickory\, NC 28601
URL:https://wpsymphony.org/event/wps-auditions-principal-trombone-third-trumpet/
LOCATION:Western Piedmont Symphony\, 243 Third Ave NE\, Hickory\, NC\, 28601\, United States
CATEGORIES:Auditions
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SUMMARY:WPS Youth Orchestras Auditions for 24-25
DESCRIPTION:2024-2025 Auditions for the Western Piedmont Symphony Youth Orchestras (WPSYO)\nThe WPSYO is composed of two ensembles: \nDebut Strings is an auditioned string orchestra generally comprised of developing string players at an intermediate level of music-making. \nThe Youth Symphony is an auditioned full orchestra\, generally comprised of high school-aged students at an advance musical level. \n  \nAudition time and date is by sign-up. Find audition repertoire\, requirements\, and how to sign-up at wpsymphony.org/youthorchestras \nWhen: \nFriday\, May 31\, 2024: 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. \nSaturday\, June 1\, 2024: 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. \nWhere: \nWestern Piedmont Symphony-Community Rehearsal Room \n243 Third Ave. NE\, Suite #1-N \nHickory\, NC 28601 \n  \nWPS Office is located at the SALT Block in Hickory. Enter at the north side of the block at Third St. NE & Fourth Ave. NE
URL:https://wpsymphony.org/event/wps-youth-orchestras-auditions-for-24-25/
LOCATION:Western Piedmont Symphony\, 243 Third Ave NE\, Hickory\, NC\, 28601\, United States
CATEGORIES:Youth Orchestras
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SUMMARY:WPS Auditions: Principal Percussion\, Section Percussion
DESCRIPTION:Announcing the following vacancies for the 24-25 season: \nPrincipal Percussion \nSection Percussion \nAudition repertoire and information available at wpsymphony.org/employment/#orchestra-audition \nAudition Date: Sunday\, May 19\, 2024 \nApplication Deadline: Sunday\, May 5\, 2024 \nSend a one-page performance résumé to WPS Orchestra Personnel Manager: pm@wpsymphony.org \nAuditions will be held at: Western Piedmont Symphony Offices at the SALT Block \n243 Third Ave. NE.\, Suite 1-N\, Hickory\, NC 28601
URL:https://wpsymphony.org/event/wps-auditions-principal-percussion-section-percussion/
LOCATION:Western Piedmont Symphony\, 243 Third Ave NE\, Hickory\, NC\, 28601\, United States
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SUMMARY:Masterworks: Landscapes
DESCRIPTION:🎟️ GET TICKETS 🎟️\nFeatured Artist: Amber Ferenz\, bassoon \nThe symphony’s flagship classical series concludes with two WORLD PREMIERES: Kachina\, by Amber Ferenz\, and a commission for orchestra of music inspired by the foothills region by American composer Daniel Perttu. Grofé’s picturesque Grand Canyon Suite closes the series. \nProgram\nPerttu                 World Premiere: Appalachian Vistas \nFerenz                World Premiere: Kachina \nAmber Ferenz\, bassoon \n— INTERMISSION — \nGrofé                  Grand Canyon Suite \n  \nAbout the Artist: \nAmber Ferenz is a nonbinary bassoonist and composer.  Profoundly inspired by more than a decade of apprenticeship in indigenous medicine ways of the Americas and the magic and mystery of the natural world\, they write lyrical\, evocative pieces that weave together melodies and healing songs gifted by Nature. \n  \nAmber has been commissioned to write for solo bassoon\, bassoon and piano\, wind quartet\, and bassoon and orchestra.  Their most recent compositions include “Tales From the Grove” and “Unfinished Conversations” for bassoon and piano\, “Wood\, Water\, and Roses: Women’s Medicine for Difficult Times” and “Yellow Poplar with Birdsong” for solo bassoon\, “Tall Tales” for bassoon quartet\, and “Bullfrog Boogie” for contrabassoon octet\, which was featured at the 2022 IDRS Convention.  Commissioned by Winston-Salem based chamber group Elektra Winds\, their first wind quartet “These Four Directions” was an official selection for performance at the 2022 Music By Women Festival in Columbus\, Mississippi.   TrevCo Music publishes their growing catalogue. \n  \nTheir composition “Songs for Wicked Children” for bassoon and piano featuring bassoonist Eric Van der Veer Varner was released as part of the album Compostela on the MSR Classics label in late 2022. \n  \nAmber received their Bachelor of Music in Bassoon Performance from the North Carolina School of the Arts\, and their Master of Fine Arts in Western Orchestral Performance from the California Institute of the Arts.  They teach bassoon at Gardner-Webb University and are a founding member of Elektra Winds and Queen City Winds\, and serve as second bassoonist with the Asheville Symphony.  Amber is also the contrabassoonist and interim orchestra librarian for the Greensboro Symphony\, a frequent sub with the Charlotte Symphony\, and the Camp Coordinator for the Glickman-Popkin Bassoon Camp since 2007 at the invitation of Mark Popkin. \n 
URL:https://wpsymphony.org/event/masterworks-landscapes/
LOCATION:P.E. Monroe Auditorium\, LRU\, 775 6th St NE\, Hickory\, NC\, 28601\, United States
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SUMMARY:Crossroads: Hank\, Pattie and The Current with WPS Maestro's Quartet
DESCRIPTION:🎟️ GET TICKETS 🎟️\nNEW LOCATION! The Premier in Hickory! \nHard-hitting bluegrass pickers who moonlight as symphonic classical musicians\, Hank\, Pattie\, and The Current\, led by banjo player Hank Smith and fiddle player and vocalist Pattie Kinlaw with Billie Feather on guitar and Stevie Martinez on bass\, take an innovative twist on traditional bluegrass music and mix it with a soulful brew flavored with classical\, Motown\, jazz\, and pop influences. With special guests the WPS Maestro’s Quartet. \nDoors open at 6:15 p.m.\, concert at 7:30 p.m. \nTickets sold through Western Piedmont Symphony: \n\nReserved Seating: $28 (theatre/row-style seating)\nGeneral Admission (standing): $20\nVIP High-Top table of Four: $200 (includes bar service) VIP Tables SOLD OUT\n\n\n \nNote From The Premier:  \n\nSeats are assigned on a first come first serve basis as people arrive.\nGroups must arrive together in order to sit together.\nFor the best chance of being seated together arrive early and arrive all together.\nWhile we do everything we can to seat groups together\, we can not guarantee that groups will be seated together.
URL:https://wpsymphony.org/event/crossroads-hank-pattie-and-the-current/
LOCATION:The Premier\, 109 11th St NW\, Hickory\, 28601\, United States
CATEGORIES:Crossroads
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