Seattle Auditions, Arts Jobs, & Announcements: July 2018

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Auditions, jobs, announcements

• Music Center of the Northwest, a non-profit community music school, seeks an executive director.
• Northwest Folklife seeks a programs coordinator to work closely with many cultural communities and performers.
• Seattle Opera is accepting applications for the audience services lead representative; technical director; senior communications manager; stewardship and events associate; and direct sales & telefunding representative.
• KING FM seeks a development coordinator.
• The Seattle Symphony is accepting applications for the following positions: senior manager of creative projects & community engagement; annual fund coordinator, and part-time ticket services associate.
• Music of Remembrance seeks a full-time, paid development associate starting immediately.
• Town Hall Seattle seeks an institutional giving manager.
• Pacific Northwest Ballet is hiring for the following positions: Children’s Division teacher (part time); master carpenter; school accompanist; DCM sales representative; and certified pilates instructor.
• Bremerton Youth Symphony is hiring a music director; director; and stage assistant.
• City Arts is hiring a marketing and communications specialist
  (temporary position).
• West Seattle Community Orchestras (WSCO) is in search of its next Symphony Orchestra conductor.
• Seattle Festival Orchestra, a community orchestra of experienced musicians, announces auditions for the position of concertmaster.
• The Seattle Choral Company is holding auditions through the summer.
• Seattle Pro Musica holds auditions for all voice parts in August.
• Northwest Boychoir is looking for boys ages 6–9 for fall enrollment; no prior musical training required, just musical aptitude and enjoyment of music.
• Northwest Mahler Festival is seeking musicians: strings, winds, percussion, and harp.
• Cascade Symphony has openings for principal trombone, principal cello, and principal 2nd violin, with auditions on July 23rd.
• Ensign Symphony & Chorus is seeking to fill the following symphony personnel positions: string bass, section horn, section trumpet, all other section strings, and sub positions for all instrumental positions.
• Seattle Festival Orchestra seeks community musicians for principal oboe, principal trumpet, section trumpet, and strings for the 2018–19 season.
• Seattle Wind Symphony is holding auditions for oboe / clarinet / bari sax / string bass for regular membership (and ongoing sub-list positions).
• Bremerton Symphony Orchestra will hold auditions for local and regional musicians with experience on August 30.
• Gallery Concerts classical chamber music non-profit organization seeks board members.
• Thalia Allied Artists Music Library seeks a rental space for its large collection of scores and parts.
• 4Culture provides a financial incentive to book roster performers; sign up for the 4Culture Touring Arts Roster and check out the Presenter Incentive Program.

Notable deadlines

• July 2018 — NEA Art Works: Local Arts Agencies application window
• July 2, 2018 — Youth Arts Grants application deadline
• July 11, 2018 — Seattle Office of Arts & Culture CityArtist Projects application deadline (workshop on 7/9)
• July 19, 2018 — Cultural Facilities Fund application deadline (supporting pre-capital, capital, and post-capital project expenses that address more racially equitable access)
• August 31, 2018 — Birkenfeld Memorial Trust Fund at Seattle Foundation application deadline
• October 17, 2018–4Culture Sustained Support application deadline (assists with the day-to-day needs of arts, heritage, and preservation organizations over two-year cycles)
• Ongoing — ArtsWA Snap Grants pilot program pre-application window opened (budgets under $25K)
• Ongoing — Community 4Culture 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 — Spontaneous Free Tickets audience-building program

Media calendar deadlines

• Seattle Magazine — submit events 3 months ahead for the print calendar
• City Arts — to submit to Current or the print calendar, send event details to calendar@cityartsmagazine.com
• 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 June 28, 2018.