The Philharmonic Orchestra of the Universitat de València opens call to the entrance exam for the course 25-26
- UV General Foundation
- May 28th, 2025
The Philharmonic Orchestra of the Universitat de València (OFUV) opens the registration period for new musicians for the specialities of flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, bassoon, high horn, low horn, trumpet, tenor trombone, bass trombone, violin, viola, violoncello and contrabass. In order to join the Philharmonic Orchestra, you must pass the auditions, which start on 22 October. Pre-registration is free and must be completed by 13 October.
October. Pre-registration is free and must be completed by 13 October.
The pre-inscription will be done filling this form and the auditions will take place in the Charles Darwin Hall at the Burjassot Campus (camí del cementeri, 20, Burjassot). The regular rehearsal season is from September to June each Monday, from 19 to 22h, and each Thursday, from 20 to 22h, in the same hall. If you have any doubt about the audition, you have to contact the organisation through the email orquestra@uv.es.
Candidates must be under 23 years old and have to course at least the last years of professional music studies. It will be positively valued the fact of being coursing university studies.
From the Philharmonic Orchestra grants are offered for musical training, as well as pedagogic training. Students of the Universitat de València will have an academic recognition of 2 ECTS credits per year; and, at the same time, an academic recognition as musical external internship for the students of the Joaquín Rodrigo Music Conservatory in Valencia and the Salvador Seguí Music Conservatory in Castellón, also with 2 ECTS Credits per year.
Excellence, professionalisation and international projection training
Since its creation in 1995, thePhilharmonic Orchestra of the Universitat de València has turned into one of the most relevant orchestras in the Spanish university scene , giving opportunities for the promotion of soloist in chamber and orchestral concerts, as well as chamber ensembles.
With vocation to promote an instrumental training of quality, with specialist professors for each instrumental family, throughout its 30 years of history, more than a thousand young musicians have come through the OFUV, many of which are now developing their interpretative activity in Spanish and European orchestras or work as teachers in different professional and superior conservatories.
In terms of its repertoire, the aim is that musicians have variety and diversity to develop all their instrumental technique adding it to each of the pieces they work with. In this sense, the director of the university musical group, Hilari Garcia Gázquez, highlights “the high level of formation, that is acquired with regular and intense work of a very strict repertoire. A functioning, definitely, that evokes the professional orchestra and that chases the artistic excellence and personal growth”. For the course 2025/2026 the central work of the programme will be Symphony No. 1 in D major, Titán, by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911).
Among the renowned directors that have acted with the OFUV include José Collado, Laszlo Heltay, Carlos Riazuelo, Carles Santos, Juan Luis Martínez and José M. Rodilla. There have also been many prestigious soloists who have collaborated: Montserrat Caballé, Stephan Schilli, Luis Michal, Marta Carfi, Michele Marasco, Duncan Guifford, Maria de Mar Bonet, etc.
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