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About the Role

The Youth Orchestra Administrative Apprentices support the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra (SFSYO) through project assistance and office administration. These roles involve producing materials, maintaining databases and mailing lists, covering rehearsals and concerts, assisting with auditions, and supporting other SFSYO projects. Apprentices will interact with SFSYO musicians, the SFSYO Director and Music Librarian, the SFSYO Music Director, and SFS musicians serving as faculty.

Responsibilities

Provide administrative support for the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, working primarily with the SFSYO Director.
Manage attendance tracking.
Assist with administration of entrance and seating auditions.
Administer Instrument Care Program.
Coordinate periodic YO Chamber performances throughout the season.
Run weekly ticket lottery for SF Symphony concerts.
Act as point of contact for SFSYO musicians at all services including rehearsals, concerts, auditions, etc.
Plan and proctor the annual SFSYO Concerto Competition.
Field inquiries from prospective members, alumni, parents, etc.
Assist with ad hoc projects as assigned, including supporting the YO Music Librarian if required.

Requirements

Experience with Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, etc.) and Google Drive (Sheets, Forms, etc.) is preferred.
Basic familiarity with orchestral music is essential.
Ability to work as part of a team and with a wide range of people including SFSYO members aged 11–21, SFSYO parents, professional orchestra musicians, and fellow SFS staff.
Strong organizational and time management skills.
The ability to work independently.
Meticulous attention to detail.
The ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and maintain a sliding focus as needed.
Interest in arts administration and/or education is a plus.

Location

San Francisco, CA 94102
Davies Symphony Hall San Francisco, CA

Work Type

Part Time
Hybrid

Experience Level

Entry

Salary/Compensations

$20.25 - $20.25 Hourly

About the Company

The San Francisco Symphony is among the most adventurous and innovative arts institutions in the United States, celebrated for its artistic excellence, creative performance concepts, award-winning recordings, and standard-setting education and community engagement programs.
The Symphony presents more than 200 concerts and presentations annually for an audience of nearly 350,000 in its home of Davies Symphony Hall and around the Bay Area.
A cornerstone of its mission, the San Francisco Symphony provides some of the most extensive education and community programs offered by any American orchestra.
The Symphony’s free music education experiences engage students in grades 1–12 throughout the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), serving more than 25,000 students annually.
In 2001, the SF Symphony became the first American orchestra to launch its own in-house record label SFS Media.
San Francisco Symphony radio broadcasts, the first in the nation to feature symphonic music when they began in 1926, today carry the Orchestra’s concerts across the country.
In 2004, the SF Symphony launched the groundbreaking multimedia Keeping Score series on PBS-TV and the web; the series was made available for unlimited free streaming on the Symphony’s YouTube channel in 2020.
In 2014, the San Francisco Symphony inaugurated SoundBox, an experimental and eclectic live music series, which takes place in an alternative performance space located backstage at Davies Symphony Hall.
In 2023, the San Francisco Symphony partnered with Apple for the launch of a new classical music streaming app, Apple Music Classical, and has since released 15 spatial audio recordings of live concert performances through the app.
For its adventurous programming, the Symphony has been honored 19 times by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, and the Symphony’s recordings have garnered France’s Grand Prix du Disque and Britain’s Gramophone Award, as well as 17 Grammy® Awards.

Equal Opportunity

In alignment with the values statement above, the San Francisco Symphony is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.