Lantern Festival Orchestra Eligibility and Selection
Lantern Festival Orchestra is geared toward high school and college age students and intermediate/advanced avocational (non-professional) adult musicians. Participants will be selected based upon their musicianship and the composition of the ensemble.
ELIGIBILITY
The Lantern Festival Orchestra application is open to any non-professional musician who meets the following criteria, regardless of race or ethnicity:
- Applicants must play a string instrument (violin, viola, cello or bass)
- Applicants must be at least 14 years of age
- Applicants should be able to play the attached repertoire sample
- Applicants must submit an application and a recording by the deadline to be considered
- Applicants must be students or avocational (non-professional) musicians; union musicians are not eligible to apply
Selection
After the deadline, submitted applications and excerpt recordings are adjudicated by Pacific Symphony musicians, and participants are selected and assigned seating order based upon their musicianship. Placement in Lantern Festival Orchestra is determined in part by the composition of the ensemble.
Applicants will be informed of their status approximately one month after the deadline.
For more information on applying to Lantern Festival Orchestra, click here.