The FIM Flint Symphony Orchestra announces auditions for the following tenure-track positions:

PRINCIPAL FLUTE 
Audition Date: Sunday, October 5 @ 2:00 pm
Location: Whiting*
Principal Flute Repertoire

PRINCIPAL HARP 
Audition Date: Sunday, October 5 @ 5:00 pm
Location: Whiting*
Principal Harp Repertoire

THIRD TRUMPET AND UTILITY 
Audition Date: Monday, October 6 @ 7:00 pm
Location: Whiting*
Third Trumpet Repertoire

SECTION VIOLIN (First and Second) 
Audition Date: Sunday, September 21 @ 2:00 pm
Location: DMC°
Section Violin Repertoire

SECTION VIOLA 
Audition Date: Sunday, September 21 @ 4:00 pm
Location: DMC°
Section Viola Repertoire
ATTN: Violists Do Not Need to Prepare Mozart #35 “Haffner”

SECTION CELLO 
Audition Date: Sunday, September 28 @ 2:00 pm
Location: DMC°
Section Cello Repertoire

SECTION BASS 
Audition Date: Sunday, September 28 @ 4:00 pm
Location: DMC°
Section Bass Repertoire

Location: Auditions will take place at the following locations:

• *FIM Whiting Auditorium “Whiting”, 1241 East Kearsley Street, Flint MI 48503.
  FIM Whiting Auditorium – Google Maps 
• °FIM Dort Music Center “DMC” 1025 East Kearsley Street, Flint MI 48503.
  FIM Dort Music Center – Google Maps 

Please complete the Survey Monkey audition application, and upload your performance resume where indicated. Watch for correspondence from auditions@thefim.org and don’t forget to check your junk folder.
Be sure to include your primary e-mail address on your resume.

The audition committee reserves the right to immediately dismiss any candidate that does not meet the desired standard of performance. Employment to begin immediately pending the winners’ availability and orchestra’s need. We may add to our supplemental musician list based on these auditions. Audition candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
No phone calls, please. 
Any questions may be emailed to: auditions@thefim.org.

About the FSO

The FIM Flint Symphony Orchestra is a professional, per-service, union orchestra made up of 76 contracted musicians performing under the baton of Maestro Enrique Diemecke, Music Director and Conductor. The FIM FSO performs 1-2 concerts per month on average. A typical FSO season includes six classical concerts, a Holiday Pops concert, Nutcracker performances with dancers from the FIM Flint School of Performing Arts, a music to picture concert and/or pops concert and more. Our main performance venue is at the James H Whiting Auditorium.

Under the existing contract, the FIM Flint Symphony Orchestra section player per-service rate is $98.15, and the principal player per-service rate is $114.00. For musicians traveling from Detroit, Ann Arbor, Lansing/East Lansing and further shall receive a travel allowance of $20.00 per service. These rates are subject to change as the FSO is currently undergoing contract negotiations. 

The Flint Institute of Music (FIM) Flint Symphony Orchestra (FSO) is a program of FIM.

The Flint Institute of Music and its programmatic entities provide equal opportunity. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.