Orchestral Experience Questionnaire
Are you experienced?
This post is to help spread the word of great project related to the orchestral experience.
My name is Bruce Richards. I am a professional horn player in the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège in Liège, Belgium. I have been working for the same orchestra for the past 19 years.
I have been reflecting about my profession and the systems that are used to join a symphony orchestra and how that experience differs from country to country, or orchestra to orchestra. I realized that there is really not a lot of information about the profession and how it functions.
Bruce Richards’ project is to collect information via a Microsoft Word questionnaire in order to document the process of joining an orchestra and on becoming a team member.
The outcome of this project could glean some very valuable information for the profession.
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