Seattle Auditions, Arts Jobs, & Announcements: January 2019

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Auditions, jobs, announcements

• Seattle Collaborative Orchestra seeks awesome violin and/or bass players to join our diverse, multigenerational performing arts organization dedicated to diversity in symphonic classical music.
• Northwest Folklife is hiring a community relations & fundraising lead and offers several internships.
• Seattle Opera is casting a 9–10 year old boy to play young Steve Jobs for the opera: “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs” to be performed in February-March 2019.
• Seattle Opera is seeking a general director, assistant production manager, box office representatives, and audience services representatives.
• Seattle Opera is now accepting audition inquiries for the next open chorus auditions for the supplemental chorus roster in March 2019.
• The Seattle Symphony is holding auditions for associate principal bassoon.
• The Seattle Symphony is hiring a discovery coordinator, office assistant, part-time ticket services associate, and sales and fundraising representatives.
• Music of Remembrance seeks a full-time administrative specialist starting immediately.
• Bremerton Youth Symphony is hiring a youth chorale director and stage assistant.
• The Seattle Philharmonic seeks strong violinists, violists, and cellists to audition: come be a part of a fun, dynamic orchestra.
• Bellevue Presbyterian Church is searching for a director of music + worship.
• Rain City Symphony, meeting in North Seattle, seeks string bass players.
• Northwest Boychoir is looking for boys ages 6–9 for January enrollment; no prior musical training required, just musical aptitude and enjoyment of music.
• The Sammamish Symphony Orchestra and Adam Stern, conductor and music director, announced openings for talented and dedicated volunteer musicians in several sections for our 2018–2019 season and are also lookingfor volunteers to help with day-of concert lobby activities.
• Gallery Concerts is seeking board members and volunteers to usher.
• KEXP offers several paid internships to provide hands-on experience in the nonprofit arts sector for interested applicants from historically under-invited communities.
• Jack Straw Foundation, in the form of KRAB radio, dropped an upright piano from a helicopter near Duvall, Washington 50 years ago. To commemorate this event, Jack Straw is soliciting compositions for what remains of the instrument — the soundboard and harp, minus the bass strings — which is currently housed in our New Media Gallery. Email arts@jackstraw.org or call (206) 634–0919 for more information.

Notable deadlines

• January 15, 2019 — Seattle Foundation: Neighbor to Neighbor application deadline
• March 4, 2019 — Artist Trust: Fellowship Awards application deadline
• April 30, 2019 — The Newcombe Foundation: Instrument Grant applications deadline
• June 24, 2019 — Artist Trust: Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) application deadline
• Ongoing — 4Culture: Buildings + Equipment Grants
• Ongoing — ArtsWA: Snap Grants pilot program pre-application window opened (budgets under $25K)
• Ongoing — Seattle Foundation: Vibrant Democracy Initiative Partnership Mobilization Grants (apply for a total of up to $30,000)
• Ongoing — 4Culture: Community grant (aims to connect with communities who have not been reached and who are currently under-supported)
• Ongoing — 4Culture: Open Arts Grant; apply at least 6 weeks prior to event date
• Ongoing — Seattle Office of Arts & Culture: smART ventures grant application deadline
• Ongoing — Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute: facility grant; apply at least two months prior to event date
• Ongoing — Live Music Project: Spontaneous Free Tickets audience-building program

Media calendar deadlines

• Seattle Magazine — submit events 3 months ahead for the print calendar
• City Arts — City Arts is currently on hiatus and is not accepting calendar submissions.
• Seattle Times — submit 14 days ahead for consideration in the curated classical listings (online & print)
• The Stranger — submit any time to the online “Things to Do” calendar; for the quarterly Seattle Art & Performance, submit at least 5 weeks before the start of the quarter in which the event will take place
• Seattle Met — submit 2–4 weeks ahead of event for the online calendar
• Live Music Project — submit 1 week prior to performance date; deadline for weekend email listings is Mondays @ 5pm

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Originally published at https://livemusicproject.org on December 28, 2018.