NBSO
Auditions and open positions
THE NEW BEDFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
announces auditions for the following vacancies:
SECTION CELLO (rotating)
October 11, 2026
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SECOND HORN
October 12, 2026
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SECTION VIOLIN II (rotating)
November 22, 2026
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SECTION BASS (rotating)
November 23, 2026
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All auditions to be held at Somerville Music Spaces
1060 Broadway Suite C101B, Somerville, MA, 02144
Qualified applicants should send résumé at least 14 days in advance to:
Personnel Manager Wes Hopper, personnel@nbsymphony.org
If accepted for a position with the orchestra, candidates must provide proof of their affiliation with the Boston Musicians’ Association (Local 9-535), or the Professional Musicians of the Southcoast (Local 216) if they live within their jurisdiction.
The New Bedford Symphony Orchestra is a per-service ensemble with a season consisting of approximately 30 regular services and a varying number of educational and outreach services. Base scale for the 2026-27 season is $147.17 (+ 5% pension contribution) per service with travel, cartage, per diem, doubling, etc., added when applicable. Applicants are required by federal law to demonstrate eligibility to accept employment if offered a position with the NBSO. The New Bedford Symphony Orchestra is an Equal Opportunity Employer whose members benefit from a collective bargaining agreement with Locals 216 and 9-535 of the American Federation of Musicians.
The New Bedford Symphony Orchestra is a member of the National Alliance for Audition Support (NAAS). If you are a Black and/or Latino orchestral musician in need of financial assistance in order to participate in this audition, please contact NAAS to apply for funding aid: https://www.sphinxmusic.org/national-alliance-for-audition-support/
SING TO ME
October 12 &13, 2024, 3 PM
Special Additional Performance: Friday, October 11, 7 PM, New Bedford Whaling Museum
On October 11, join us in the Harbor View Gallery and stay for an after-concert reception to mingle with guests and musicians while enjoying hors D'oeuvres and spirits.
A dazzling vocal journey
Featuring Philip Lima, baritone
Many thanks to Patty Plum Wylde, whose generous Gift of Music has made this concert possible. She dedicates her gift to all teachers of music for their devotion to the art of making music eternal.
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Selections from Songs of Travel (arr. John Greer)
The Vagabond
Youth and Love
Whither Must I Wander?
Bright is the Ring of Words
I have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope
Samuel Barber: Dover Beach, Op. 3
Charles Ives: Songs
The Children's Hour
Tom Sails Away
The Circus Band
Three Spirituals
Wade in the Water (arr. Anthony Green)
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (arr. H. T. Burleigh/Green)
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho (arr. Cynthia Jackson/Green)
Joly Braga Santos: Piano Quartet in D Major, Op. 26
Joaquín Turina: The Toreador's Prayer, Op. 34
Jesse Holstein, violin
EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks, violin
Anna Griffis, viola
Leo Eguchi, cello
Janice Weber, piano
Lustrous baritone Philip Lima joins NBSO core musicians in an eclectic potpourri ranging from Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel and Samuel Barber’s Dover Beach to the earthy songs of Charles Ives and three spirituals. A piano quartet by Portuguese master Joly Braga Santos and The Toreador’s Prayer by Joaquín Turina offer interludes of instrumental poetry and brilliance.
Tickets are not available at the door.
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