YouTube announced a collaboration with Sydney Opera House, Grammy Award-winning conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, the London Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, and many other leading institutions and figures of the classical music world, to launch the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011 (youtube.com/symphony).
The orcgestra uses the video sharing website as a platform for auditions leading up to a performance in the Sydeney Opera House next March.
Musicians selected for the orchestra will be invited to a week-long summit of rehearsals, concerts, and master classes, culminating in a performance conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas.
The online audition period for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011 opens October 12, 2010, and auditions extend through November 28, 2010.
To be considered, musicians from around the world are invited to upload audition videos of designated pieces to demonstrate their musical and technical abilities. New this year, a second search for solo improvisers extends the audition process beyond traditional classical instruments and invites further online collaboration.
For the solo improviser audition, musicians of any instrument may submit an original improvisation based on the new composition “Mothership” from composer Mason Bates for the opportunity to play their own solo during the final performance.
Conductor and artistic advisor Tilson Thomas said: “We’re exploring how classical music’s 1,200-year-long tradition can enter the realm of high technology and what that will mean for its mission and legacy.
“The YouTube Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall [in 2009] was a first step in that process. The YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011 at Sydney Opera House will be the next step as we seek to expand beyond the rehearsal room, beyond the concert hall and connect with a global audience.”
The YouTube Symphony Orchestra has further support in some countries by local music institutions, including the San Francisco Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.
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