Auditions and Employment

Auditions

Applications for orchestra positions are now closed. We typically announce auditions in March or April. If you are interested in joining our sub list, please email Stuart McLemore, Operations Manager, at operations@fayettevillesymphony.org.

Pay Transparency: Our base pay is $90/service. Principal positions receive an additional $14/service. Musicians traveling over 60 miles receive a travel stipend of $10/service. The Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra offers double occupancy hotel rooms to musicians traveling over 75 miles for consecutive services.

There are no employment opportunities at this time.

Featured Musician

Carey Sleeman, Second Violin Section

Carey Sleeman has been playing the violin for the past 28 years. Starting when she was 7 and played throughout grade school. She attended the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam in Potsdam New York where she studied violin with Professor John Lindsey and Nancy Peschko. Carey received her Bachelors and Masters degrees in music education in 2011 and 2012 respectively. After completing her degrees, Carey moved to Kenya where she would spend the next 5 years teaching and mentoring young string players and playing with the Nairobi Orchestra. She then moved back to the United States with her Family and has been teaching in the public school system in Fairfax Virginia and now Fayetteville for the past 5 years. She is now pursing a career as a curriculum developer and is looking forward to growing her private studio and spending time with her family.

To Educate. To Entertain. To Inspire.

The Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1956 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and is a professional, regional orchestra whose mission is to educate, entertain, and inspire the citizens of the Fayetteville, North Carolina region as the leading musical resource. Praised for its artistic excellence, the Symphony leads in the cultural and educational landscape for Fayetteville and the southeastern North Carolina region.

The Fayetteville Symphony typically performs 8 concerts during any given season performing both at Methodist University and Fayetteville State University. Partnerships with other agencies include collaborative performances with Cape Fear Regional Theatre, chamber concerts at St. John’s Episcopal Church, as well as the city’s annual Independence concert with fireworks. The Symphony brings music to the schools and the community by performing educational concerts, as well as having its own Fayetteville Symphony Youth Orchestra, after school strings and summer music camps.

This organization is supported in part by a space grant from the BB&T Term Endowment of Cumberland Community Foundation, Inc.