Summer Academy 2026 Application

Application 2026

Applications and participation are open to young musicians of all nationalities. 

Age limit: 16 - 26 years

Application deadline: until March 9, 2026

Applications for all instruments should be made via live-audition. Musicians who are NOT able to travel to Vienna for the audition can apply via video recording. Only one of the two application forms is to be chosen, whereby the live-audition is to be preferred! Experience has shown that a live presentation is always an advantage! 

ATTENTION: Application via Video is NOT possible for Viennese oboe, Viennese horn, and Viennese timpani!

We also ask for an up-to-date CV with contact details and a photo.

You can apply via the corresponding link on this page.

In case you want to apply by video, please enter the links directly in the application form. For an application for the live audition, please leave the corresponding fields blank. 

If your application is successful, you will receive an automatic confirmation email and will be admitted to the video application or invited to the audition. If we are unable to consider your registration, we will inform you as soon as possible.
You will receive further information on the location and meeting point for the selection match by email a few days before the date.

We ask for your understanding that travel expenses cannot be reimbursed.
The dates and the programme for the auditions can be found under the respective instruments.

The candidates will be informed about the jury's decisions by mid of April and will receive individual invitations to the modules of the course. Before the end of June, the chamber music works and the division of the ensembles as well as the section division for the orchestra will also be announced. Subsequently, the scores for the chamber music and orchestra modules will be made available. 

Upon successful completion of the selection process, applicants agree to participate in the academy and to pay a deposit of € 100,- (non-refundable).

 

Please note a few important points for the recording of your video application:

  • The videos should consist of a continuous recording without cuts for the compulsory piece and for the orchestra excerpts and should be accompanied by piano. Please record all required orchestra excerpts (in maximum 2 video files).
  • For optimal evaluation (dynamics etc.), the recording should be made in high quality (formats mp4, avi, wmv, mpg or mov).
  • Please ensure a frontal full-body shot
  • The following platforms can be used at your discretion: Youtube, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive
  • Please refrain from long piano introductions as well as interludes
  • Please insert the links for your uncut, unedited videos in the fields provided
  • Please make sure that the videos have been approved for viewing!

Your entered data and documents will of course only be used for processing within the framework of the selection procedure for the Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic and will under no circumstances be used for other purposes or passed on to third parties. 

More about Summer Academy 2026

Auditions 2026

Registration deadline: March 9, 2026
The auditions will take place between March 16th and 27th, 2026.

ATTENTION: The information below is not yet updated! 

  • Violin

    Audition:

    March 20, 2025, time: 9 am, place: Vienna State Opera

    Works to be performed:

    • W.A. Mozart: From the Concerto in D major KV 218 or A major KV 219, 1st movement to reprise (no cadenza)
    • Orchestra excerpts: 
      Wiener Blut Op. 354 Coda 255 to end 1st violin
      Prokofieff Symphonie classique op. 25 Finale beginning to 2 bars before number 52 1st violin
      Mozart Symphony No. 39 in E flat major KV 543 Finale beginning up to bar 40 1st violin
      Don Juan Beginning up to bar 38 1st violin 
      Fledermaus 2nd violin Overture Tempo di Valse up to 15 bars before line 6, 5 bars after line 6 up to 21 bars after line 6, 5 bars after line 7 up to end
  • Viola

    Audition:

    March 25, 2025, time: 1.30 pm, place: Vienna State Opera

    Works to be performed:

    • Concerto Karl Stamitz or Anton Hoffmeister: 1st movement to reprise in each case (no cadenza). 
    • Orchestra excerpts: 
      Don Juan (beginning to 5 bars before "D"), Heldenleben (number 77 to 79), Bruckner 4th Symphony 2nd movement (the 1st place), Rosenkavalier Prelude 3rd act, Mahler 10th (beginning).
  • Violoncello

    Audition:

    March 17, 2025, time: 3 pm, place: Konzerthaus Vienna

    Works to be performed:

    • J. Haydn Concerto in D major 1st movement exposition and development (no cadenza)
    • Orchestra excerpts:
      P.Tchaikovsky Symphony no. 6 2nd movement: from the beginning 24 bars (with repeat)
      A.Bruckner Symphony no. 7 1st movement: from the beginning 23 bars
      R.Wagner Rheingold: from 4 bars before "35": 38 bars
      G.Verdi Requiem no. 3 Offertorio: from the beginning 38 bars
      R.Strauss Heldenleben: form the beginning 25 bars

    Highly qualified participants may also be invited to substitute in the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera / Vienna Philharmonic.

  • Double bass (German bow hold)

    Audition:

    March 19, 2025, time: 4.30 pm, place: Musikverein Vienna

    Works to be performed:

    • Dittersdorf, Bottesini, or Vanhal in each case 1st movement to reprise 
    • Orchestra excerpts: 
      Otello, Beethoven 9th recitative, Mozart G minor Symphony KV550 1st movement
  • Harp

    Audition:

    March 19, 2025, time: 4.30 pm, place: Musikverein Vienna

    Works to be performed:

    • tba
  • Flute

    Audition:

    March 24, 2025, time: 2 pm, place: Vienna State Opera

    Works to be performed:

    • Mozart Concerto in G major or D major, 1st movement exposition (no cadenza)

    • Orchestra excerpts: Ravel Daphnis et Chloé, Brahms 4th Symphony, Bizet Carmen, Beethoven Ouverture Leonore, Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream

  • Viennese Oboe

    Audition: (application via video NOT possible!)

    March 17, 2025, time: 3 pm, place: Vienna State Opera

    The audition takes place together with the audition for the position of the Orchestra Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic. To apply for the Summer Academy, it is absolutely necessary to register on this page.

    Works to be performed:

    • Mozart Concerto KV 314 C major, 1st movement to reprise (no cadenza)

    • Orchestra excerpts: Brahms: Violin concerto 2nd mvt, Schubert: The Great C Major 2nd mvt, Rossini: La scala di seta Ouverture, Dvorák: symphony N°9 2nd mvt, M. de Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat - The Miller's Dance, Beethoven: Fidelio Florestan Arie Oboensolo

  • Clarinet (German system)

    Audition:

    May 5, 2025, time: 9.30 am, place: University for Music and performing Arts Vienna

    The audition takes place together with the audition for the position of the Orchestra Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic. To apply for the Summer Academy, it is absolutely necessary to register on this page.

    Works to be performed:

    • Mozart Clarinet Concerto KV 622, 1st movement exposition and beginning 2nd mouvement
    • Orchestra excerpts:
      Puccini Tosca, Shostakovich 9th 3rd movement
  • Bassoon

    Audition:

    March 18, 2025, time: 2 pm, place: Musikverein Vienna

    Works to be performed:

    • Mozart Concerto in B flat major KV 191, 1st movement to reprise (no cadenza)
    • Orchestra excerpts: 
      Figaro Overture, Tchaikovsky 4 (2nd movement), Scheherazade, Bolero, Beethoven 4 (4th movement)
  • Viennese Horn

    Audition: (application via video NOT possible!)

    March 31, 2025, time: 10 am, place: Musikverein Vienna

    Works to be performed: 

    • R. Strauss Horn Concerto No. 1 op. 11 1st movement (piano accompaniment will be provided)
    • Orchestra excerpts: Siegfriedruf, Tchaikovsky 5, Till Eulenspiegel, Carmen, Italian in Algiers, Ariadne, Götterdämmerung 
  • Trumpet (German Trumpet)

    Audition: 

    March 24, 2025, time: 10 am, place: Musikverein Vienna

    Works to be performed (live audition):

    J. Haydn: Concerto 1st movement up to the end of the development + cadenza

    Orchestra excerpts:
    Leonore 2 Signals, Carmen Signal, Valkyrie Sword Motif, Petroushka (Tanz, Walzer und Schluss), Ravel: piano concerto, Zarathustra, Don Pasquale

    Works to be performed (video application):

    J. Haydn: Concerto 1st movement up to the end of the development + cadenza

    Orchestra excerpts:
    Leonore 2 Signals, Carmen Signal, Valkyrie Sword Motif

  • Trombone

    We will have no trombones in 2026.

  • Viennese timpani and percussion

    Audition: (video application NOT possible!)

    March 20, 2025, time: 1.30 pm, place: Vienna State Opera

    Works to be performed:

    The list of works to be performed will be sent by e-mail by beginning of March.

Contact

Do you have any questions?

Britta Malpricht-Varga
Summer Academy Organisation