So I'm currently in the LA area and playing in a few pit orchestras for community theater...doing "My Fair Lady" (oboe/eh) and starting West Side Story on the 25th playing the infamous Reed III doubling nightmare.
HOWEVER, i'm moving to Chicago in a few months to go to graduate school and I was hoping to get a little bit of extra dough on the side playing in pits. I don't expect to get paid at first, obviously, but i figured that i might as well try to get just a little extra money for something that i'd basically do for free.
My primary instruments are oboe and english horn...and I can play (and have played) at a professional level (in orchestras, pit orchestras, chamber music, bands, etc) all the saxes, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, piccolo, oboe, english horn, and bassoon. I own most of those instruments and i'm proficient on all of them.
how do i even begin to start looking for jobs in pits? In the past i've gotten jobs because i knew this person or that person or because I was just known around by word of mouth...where do i begin to look for audition announcements? should i call around and try to make connections? Should i join a union?
I really don't know how this works, because people have always come to me...and I'm not familiar at all with the Chicago area.
Any advice would be appreciated
HOWEVER, i'm moving to Chicago in a few months to go to graduate school and I was hoping to get a little bit of extra dough on the side playing in pits. I don't expect to get paid at first, obviously, but i figured that i might as well try to get just a little extra money for something that i'd basically do for free.
My primary instruments are oboe and english horn...and I can play (and have played) at a professional level (in orchestras, pit orchestras, chamber music, bands, etc) all the saxes, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, piccolo, oboe, english horn, and bassoon. I own most of those instruments and i'm proficient on all of them.
how do i even begin to start looking for jobs in pits? In the past i've gotten jobs because i knew this person or that person or because I was just known around by word of mouth...where do i begin to look for audition announcements? should i call around and try to make connections? Should i join a union?
I really don't know how this works, because people have always come to me...and I'm not familiar at all with the Chicago area.
Any advice would be appreciated
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