The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra to Hold Vocal Auditions, 1/20

The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra is holding general vocal auditions on Monday, Jan. 20 from 4 to 6 PM at Kleinhans Music Hall, 3 Symphony Circle, Buffalo 14201.

In order to request a time slot, please send your resume and headshot to: Becky Davidson, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, 499 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14202 or vocalauditionsbpo@gmail.com byJanuary 15, 2014. If you are contacted to audition, please come prepared to sing a short selection of your choice and bring along either live or recorded accompaniment.

As Buffalo's cultural ambassador, the Grammy Award-winning Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra under Music Director JoAnn Falletta presents more than 120 Classics, Pops and Youth Concerts each year and reaches more than 40,000 K-12 students per year across all eight counties of Western New York.

Since 1940, the orchestra's permanent home has been Kleinhans Music Hall, a National Historic Landmark designed by Eliel and Eero Saarinen with an international reputation as one of the finest concert halls in the United States.

The BPO has toured widely across the United States and Canada including the Florida Friends Tour with JoAnn Falletta in March 2010, the first multi-city tour since the 1988 European tour. In February 2014, the BPO will again tour Florida.

Over the decades, the BPO has matured in stature under the batons of some of the leading stars of the podium. William Steinberg, Josef Krips, Lukas Foss, Michael Tilson Thomas, Maximiano Valdez, Semyon Bychkov and Julius Rudel are among the luminaries who have served as music directors of the Buffalo Philharmonic.

During the tenure of current music director JoAnn Falletta, the BPO has rekindled its distinguished history of radio broadcasts and recordings, including the release of 27 new CDs of a highly diverse repertoire on the NAXOS and Beau Fleuve labels. The Philharmonic's Naxos recording of composer John Corigliano's "Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan," featuring soprano Hila Plitmann, won Grammys in two categories of the three for which it was nominated: Classical Vocal Performance and Classical Contemporary Composition.

2013 saw the release of several recordings, all of which garnered positive reviews and strong sales. A Tchaikovsky disc was released in January. A disc of Duke Ellington's music was released on the Naxos label in February 2013, with a disc of Gershwin music released in June. The second disc of the BPO's multi-year Marcel Tyberg recording project was released in August. The BPO's highly-anticipated release of Gliere's Symphony No. 3 is slated for February 2014.