About
Founded in 1976, the Salt Lake Symphony is one of the area’s most highly respected volunteer driven orchestras. The Salt Lake Symphony is a non-profit organization dedicated to performing quality classical music concerts for the Wasatch Front community. The Symphony performs around 15 concerts per year.
The approximately seventy-five hard-working musicians of the SLS volunteer roughly 10,000 hours annually to accomplish this goal. Although the members of the Salt Lake Symphony come from all walks of life and frequently work full-time in other professions, they hold one thing in common: They play for the love and passion of music. Their dedication as volunteers sets them apart and creates a unique bond.
Mission Statement
The Salt Lake Symphony strives to be the area’s best community orchestra. We are a non-profit organization dedicated to performing quality classical music concerts for the Wasatch Front community. Our mission is unique in many respects. Our concerts are inexpensive and informal, drawing an audience that might not otherwise attend a classical music event. We are an amateur orchestra in the purest sense, striving always to increase our connections with community members to keep the beauty and passion of classical music alive. In particular, we are committed to education, and will continue to initiate projects that bring music to children. We are dedicated to providing opportunities to Utah performers, conductors, and composers to display their talents to our audiences.
Conductors
SLS Board
Board of Directors

Dick Fox
Chair
Presides over SLS Board meetings. Corporate fundraising, contracts and legal issues.

MARTY MCMILLAN
Managing Director
Cello
Manages operations of the Salt Lake Symphony. Cultivates good relations with musicians, sponsors, and friends of the Salt Lake Symphony.

Mary Anne Peterson
Librarian
Principal 2nd, Violin
Responsible for ordering, distribution, inventory, and maintenance of all purchased and rented music used by the SLS.

Hilary Coon
Grant Proposals
Section Leader, Oboe
Responsible for writing grant proposals to public and private foundations which contribute a large portion of funding to the SLS budget.

Charlotte Bell
Graphics and Media Relations
Oboe
Oversees the graphic design for the symphony’s promotional materials, coordinates media relations for the SLS.

Margaret Smith
Vienna Ball Chair
Bass
Coordinates various fundraising functions including the silent auction for the Vienna Ball. Assists with public relations and the SLS mailing list.

Sean Raleigh
Treasurer
Horn
Maintains all financial records.

Marian Florence
Secretary
Violin
Manages board minutes and assists with grant writing.

Paisley Tarboton
Donor Support
Violin
Manages donations and provides donor support.
Operating Officers

Louise Mathews
Communications
Viola
Correspondence, email, and concert promotion

Jim Yehle
Webmaster, Programming Committee Chair
Horn
Author and maintainer of the orchestra’s web site, organizer of the Programming Committee.
Auditions – August 22, 2023 for all open positions
Current openings:
- Principal Viola
- Principal Percussion
- Section Percussion
- Principal Timpani
- Section Strings (violin, viola, cello, bass)
Section strings, please prepare two contrasting selections of your choice from your instrument’s solo repertoire, and prepare to sight-read. There are no excerpts for section string auditions.
Please contact Marty McMillan at saltlakesymphony@gmail.com to schedule all auditions, or with any questions.
Principal Viola Audition Repertoire:
- Solo selection of the applicant’s choice
Orchestral excerpts will be chosen from the following:
- Beethoven Symphony No. 5, 2nd and 3rd mvts.
- 2 nd mvt. measures. 1-10; 23-37; 49-60; 98-106
- 3 rd mvt. measures 146-196
- Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
- Reh. 1 to 8 measures after Reh. 3
- Grieg: Holberg Suite
- Mvt. 5, Rigaudon (solo part)
- Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 1st mvt.
- Allegro non troppo until 6m after reh. C
- Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5, 1st mvt.
- Rehearsal 15- 17
- Rehearsal 32 – 3 after 38
Percussion Audition – Principal and Section
Solo Repertoire
- Marimba: Bach solo of candidate’s choice
Orchestral Repertoire
- Snare Drum
- Delecluse Etude 1 -complete
- Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade Mvmt. 4 –
- 4 m. before reh. N to m. 19, reh. N, reh. P to reh. R, reh. T to reh. U
- Xylophone
- Kodaly Hary Janos Mvmt. 6
- beg. to reh. 1
- Stravinsky Firebird, Complete Ballet
- reh. 127 to 133
- Glockenspiel
- Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty Waltz
- complete
- Tambourine
- Dvorak Carnival Overture
- complete
- Bass Drum
- Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 Mvmt. 4 –
- m. 272 to the end
- Cymbals
- Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 Mvmt. 4
- m. 272 to the end
Principal Timpani Audition
Solo Repertoire
- Marimba
- Bach solo of candidate’s choice
Orchestral Repertoire
- Snare Drum
- Delecluse Etude 1 – complete
- Timpani
- Bartok Concerto for Orchestra Mvmt. 4
- m. 42 to m. 51
- Beethoven Symphony No. 9 Mvmt. 1
- coda to end
- Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis Mvmt. 2
- 4 m. after S to T
- 4 m. after V to X
- 2 m. before Z to end
- Mozart Symphony No. 39 Mvmt. 1
- beg. to mm. 21
- Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 Mvmt. 1
- 4 m. Before T to V