Program Details

Orchestral Rehearsals
The SOAP orchestras rehearses daily. Repertoire is chosen to provide players with a broad experience in orchestral playing and musical interpretation. The experienced faculty lead sectional rehearsals and offer solutions to specific technical difficulties of the repertoire.

Concerts
Students will perform a concert each week in the Evergreen Theatre to an enthusiastic, sophisticated audience. Students will have the opportunity to enjoy a variety of chamber music concerts presented by the SOAP faculty. In addition there will be performances by student ensembles.

Private Lessons
During the private lessons, students will work on selected repertoire, concertos and orchestral excerpts. Faculty will assist students with their specific needs to improve their skills and techniques for orchestral playing. Students prepare 3-5 excerpts from a list of audition requirements for solo and tutti jobs in major orchestras within North America, Europe and Asia, as well as the repertoire played in the Symphony Orchestra of the Pacific.

Master Classes
SOAP students will further develop their skills in Master Classes. These classes provide an opportunity to play for and to listen to colleagues under the guidance of the faculty.

Audition Training
Preparation for an audition is a very important aspect of the SOAP program. During SOAP students will take part in four auditions. At the beginning of each week there will be auditions for placement in the orchestra. At the end of each week, students will take part in ‘live auditions’ to improve their skills and gain more experience. The faculty, consisting of musicians who have principal positions in world-renowned orchestras, will train students to become more comfortable with the process of auditioning. Students will play a first and second round of a ‘live audition’. During the first week the audition will be behind a screen, like a ‘first round’ and in the second week the audition will be open, like a ‘second round’. Students together with the faculty will also be part of the jury and discuss the audition results of others. All private lessons, master classes and forums will help students to be prepared for these auditions. The experience will be far more important than the specific result of the audition. Being a member of the jury will give students the opportunity to experience “the other side” and to improve their own presentation/performance in an audition.

Forums
Forums will be held in which students can ask questions of faculty about playing in an orchestra, the differences between orchestras in America, Europe and Asia and their mode of operation plus all aspects of the professional life of an orchestral player.

Concerto Competition
The concerto competition is open to all violinists accepted to SOAP. The competition takes place during the first week.

~ 1st prize winner will perform the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 with the Symphony Orchestra of the Pacific and be awarded the position of concertmaster, with full scholarship, for the next SOAP.

~ 2nd prize winner will be featured during the second faculty chamber music concert with a solo performance (own choice) and awarded position of leader of second violins, with full scholarship, for the next SOAP.

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