Auditions and Employment

Auditions

Please use this form to submit your resume. In-person auditions are by invitation only and will occur on Sunday, May 5, 2024 (brass) and Sunday, May 12, 2024 (strings) in Fayetteville, NC. The deadline to submit a resume is April 19, 2024. Questions may be directed to Operations Manager, Stuart McLemore, at operations@fayettevillesymphony.org. Please click on the applicable instrument name to access the audition information packet.

Principal Violin II

Principal Cello

Principal Tuba

Second Trumpet

Bass Trombone

Cello Section

Violin I and II Section

Pay Transparency: Our base pay is $90/service. Principal positions receive an additional $14/service. Musicians traveling over 60 miles receive a travel stipend of $10/service. The Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra offers double occupancy hotel rooms to musicians traveling over 75 miles for consecutive services.

Employment

There are no employment opportunities at this time.

Featured Musician

Cory Jones – Third Bassoon/Contrabassoon

Cory Jones is the contrabassoon and third bassoonist of the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra. A native of North Carolina, he enjoys many opportunities to regularly sub with other groups such as the Durham Symphony and Durham Chorale Society, as well as the Carolina Philharmonic, Charleston (SC) Symphony, Greensboro Chorale Society, and Winston-Salem Symphony. His primary teachers have been Dr. David Kirby, Dr. Rebecca Libera, and Dr. Michael Burns. Cory recently graduated from the University of North Carolina Greensboro with a degree in Bassoon Performance. He enjoys cooking, teaching a small private studio, chamber music, and spending time with his Border Collie, Benna.

To Educate. To Entertain. To Inspire.

The Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1956 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and is a professional, regional orchestra whose mission is to educate, entertain, and inspire the citizens of the Fayetteville, North Carolina region as the leading musical resource.  Praised for its artistic excellence, the Symphony leads in the cultural and educational landscape for Fayetteville and the southeastern North Carolina region.

The Fayetteville Symphony typically performs 8 concerts during any given season performing both at Methodist University and Fayetteville State University. Partnerships with other agencies include collaborative performances with Cape Fear Regional Theatre, chamber concerts at St. John’s Episcopal Church, as well as the city’s annual Independence concert with fireworks. The Symphony brings music to the schools and the community by performing educational concerts, as well as having its own Fayetteville Symphony Youth Orchestra, after school strings and summer music camps.

This organization is supported in part by a space grant from the BB&T Term Endowment of Cumberland Community Foundation, Inc.


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