RSNO invites applications for three-year Assistant Conductorship post

RSNO invites applications for three-year Assistant Conductorship post

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) today begins its search for a new Assistant Conductor by inviting potential candidates from across the globe to apply for the three-year post.

The Assistant Conductor role provides extensive conducting opportunities with one of the UK’s leading symphony orchestras, within the framework of a supportive mentoring environment.  In addition to concert and rehearsal opportunities, the post holder will benefit from ongoing professional evaluation and counsel from RSNO Music Director Stéphane Denève, guest conductors and player-mentors in the Orchestra, as well as being able to develop the multi-faceted leadership and communication skills required of modern conductors. The Assistant Conductor will conduct a variety of RSNO concerts, including serving as primary conductor for all educational and children’s programming. He or she will also be an active participant in engaging audiences, communities, and musicians in training throughout Scotland

30 year old Austrian David Danzmayr was the first RSNO Assistant Conductor, holding the post from 2007-2010. He took up the post in October 2007 and, during his three years with the Orchestra, has benefited from leading Scotland’s national orchestra in performances around the country, ranging from concerts for pre-school children to full Season performances in all the country’s major venues. 

Current RSNO Assistant Conductor David Danzmayr:

"My three years with the RSNO have been an exhilarating experience, a great learning opportunity and a very rewarding musical journey. Working for this organisation is very much being a part of the great RSNO family and the feeling of coherence and collegiality is apparent in every department. Together with the unique possibility to have orchestra players as mentors who really take their time and patience to help me achieve my greater goals, this is most certainly one of the best early positions a young conductor can have in Europe."

RSNO Chief Executive Simon Woods:
“Professional opportunities for talented emerging conductors are few and far between, and rarely provide the forum for ongoing learning.   The RSNO’s Assistant Conductor position has already been proven to offer valuable experience and we are proud to be able to provide that necessary experience of working with a top-level professional orchestra.”

Auditions by invitation will be held in Glasgow on 7 May 2010. Highly qualified applicants are asked to send a covering letter, curriculum vitae, repertoire list, video work sample and full contact information for three professional references by Tuesday 30 March 2010 to:  Assistant Conductor Search, The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, 73 Claremont Street, Glasgow, G3 7JB.  The RSNO regrets that it cannot return promotional materials and that no application without a video sample will be considered.

David Danzmayr

David Danzmayr, born in 1980 in Oberndorf near Salzburg, is currently Assistant Conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, a position he has held since August 2007.

He has now conducted the RSNO in over forty concerts, and has assisted, amongst others, Music Director Stéphane Denève, Neeme Järvi and Walter Weller.

David studied piano with Professor Czjcek and Jeanette deBoer, and conducting both with Dennis Russell Davies at the University Mozarteum Salzburg and Leif Segerstam at the Sibelius Academy . He completed his conducting studies in 2005 with honours. During his studies he participated in masterclasses with Zolt Nagy and Hans Zender and in 2003/04 held the conducting stipendiate of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra under Pierre Boulez and Claudio Abbado.

He was principal conductor of the Symphonic Ensemble Munich (SEM) and from June 2006 has held the position of musical director of the Ensemble Acrobat in Salzburg.

As guest conductor he has worked among others with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, and the Austrian Contemporary Music Ensemble (OENM). In addition to his guest engagements he is a regular conductor for the RSAMD, has assisted Dennis Russell Davies with the American Composers Orchestra in New York and rehearsed for Pierre Boulez his piece Memoriales.

Future engagements include concerts with the Symphonieorchester Basel, the Australian Summer Institute Orchestra performing Gustav Mahler’s 2nd symphony, as well as reinvitations to the Mozarteum Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland.

David Danzmayr is holder of the Bernhard Paumgartner Medal (which he was awarded by the Stiftung Mozarteum in December 2005) and was a prize winner in the 2005 Malko conducting competition.