CLARINET
PRINCIPAL CLARINET
Randers Kammerorkester / The Danish Sinfonietta has a vacancy for a PRINCIPAL CLARINET – also playing bass and Eb clarinets.
Auditions will be held in the Concert Hall Værket, Randers, Denmark on 15th November, 2025.
1st round:
* W.A. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, KV 622, 1st and 2nd movements
2nd round:
* Claude Debussy: Première Rhapsodie
* Orchestral excerpts
3rd round
* Chamber music excerpts (with ensemble)
* Sight reading
Music for the orchestral and chamber music excerpts will be sent to applicants 14 days prior to the audition. Randers Kammerorkester / The Danish Sinfonietta will provide a pianist on the day of the audition, but all travelling, board, and lodging expenses are the responsibility of the applicants themselves.
Salary and terms of engagement pursuant to the current agreements between the Danish musicians’ union and the Danish regional symphony orchestras. The position also contains teaching duties.
Candidates who are not Danish citizens are asked to keep themselves informed as to the current rules and regulations concerning work permits in Denmark.
The closing date for applications is 20th October 2025 at 12 noon.
Randers Kammerorkester / The Danish Sinfonietta reserves the right to select candidates to be invited for audition.
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ABOUT THE ORCHESTRA
The Danish Sinfonietta (Randers Kammerorkester) is built around a permanent core of 14 musicians: five winds and nine strings, supplemented by 20-25 additional musicians as and when required. Its permanent home is the Arts Centre Værket, where around thirty concerts are played every season.
Other activities include numerous concerts at other venues throughout Denmark, and regular performances as opera orchestra for Aarhus Sommeropera.
Under its Scottish chief conductor, David Riddell, the orchestra occupies a unique place in Danish cultural life due to its many and varied activities: orchestral concerts with expanded forces, chamber concerts, opera and operetta performances, recordings and broadcasts, school concerts, workshops, and teaching.
In recent years the orchestra has toured extensively, visiting the UK, China, Estonia, Iceland, Greenland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Syria and Italy.