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

Robert Baldwin at Singletary Center, Sunday June 16, 2024 in Lexington, Ky. Photo by Mark Mahan Mahan Multimedia

Robert Baldwin is in his 20 th season as Music Director and Conductor for the Salt Lake Symphony. He also serves as Director of Orchestras and Professor of Conducting at the University of Utah, and is the founding conductor of Sinfonia Salt Lake, a professional chamber orchestra in the region.

Dr. Baldwin has appeared across the North America, Europe and Asia as a conductor and as a performer on viola and viola d’amore. International conducting appearances include the Hunan Symphony and Wuhan University Orchestras in China, Busan Maru International Music Festival in South Korea, Eutin Festspiele in Germany, Kuopio Academy of Music in Finland, and the Hermitage Camerata in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In demand as a guest conductor and clinician, he also has conducted performances with the Utah Arts Festival, University of Kansas Symphony, Great Falls Symphony, Lafayette Symphony, Lexington Philharmonic, Lexington Singers, Flagstaff Festival of the Arts, Tri-Collegiate Opera, and numerous All-State and educational festival orchestras across the U.S.A. His performances and ensembles have received international attention and have been featured on New York’s WQXR Classical Radio, and nationally broadcast radio programs, including Performance Today, Highway 89 and Weekend Edition. Always on the lookout for
new experiences, he recently played a program of solo Bach and recited poetry inside the large cave for Timpanogos Cave National Monument’s Centennia Celebration.


Previously, he has held faculty and conducting positions at the University of Kentucky, Lexington Philharmonic, New American Symphony, Flagstaff Symphony and Northern Arizona University. He is also a visiting faculty at the Wuhan University Center for the Arts in China. Dr. Baldwin studied conducting in the United States and in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and holds degrees in viola performance from the University of Northern Colorado and the University of Iowa, and a DMA in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Arizona. He makes his home in Salt Lake City, Utah where, in his spare time, he enjoys reading, writing, hiking, and spending time with his family and pets. In addition to published writings on music, he is also a published poet; his poems appearing in Poetry Quarterly, Utah Life, Grey
Sparrow Journal, and Haiku Journal, among others. Thirty, his first chapbook of poetry, was published in 2022. Desert Crossing, his second chapbook, will be published in 2024.
Websites:
https://music.utah.edu/faculty/robert-baldwin.php
http://www.saltlakesymphony.org/
Blog: http://beforethedownbeat.wordpress.com/

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Oswaldo L. Machado hails from the New York Metro area, where he was raised and received his primary musical education, before moving to Utah to pursue an M.M. degree in Composition from Brigham Young University. Oswaldo is currently a second-year D.M.A. student in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Utah, under the auspices of Dr. Robert Baldwin. There he serves as an assistant conductor, with University of Utah Philharmonia, University Campus Symphony Orchestra and the Salt Lake Symphony. A decorated composer and conductor, Oswaldo has been the recipient of numerous scholarships, assistantships and competition prizes acknowledging his work in both the fields of conducting and composition.These accolades includes the Chamber Orchestra of New York’s International Respighi Prize in orchestral conducting and The Barlow Composition Award: Student Edition. As an avid improviser on the piano, Oswaldo frequently performs in local venues in the Utah Valley area, where he resides with his wife and daughter.

SLS Board

Board of Directors

Dick Fox

Chair

A retired attorney, Dick presides over meetings of the Board and maintains designated fundraising contacts.

Marty McMillan

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.

Mason Lunceford

Vienna Ball

Violin
Coordinates various fundraising functions including the silent auction for the Vienna Ball.

Sean Raleigh

Treasurer

Horn
Manages all financial transactions and bookkeeping for the Salt Lake Symphony,

Marian Florence

Secretary

Violin
Marian Florence has played violin with the Salt Lake Symphony since 2005. She is the CFO of the Wasatch Front Regional Council, a local metropolitan planning organization. Marian manages board minutes and assists with grant writing.

Danielle Dillon

Donor Support, Assistant Treasurer

Violin
Manages donations and provides donor support.

Operating Officers

Louise Mathews

Communications

Viola
Correspondence, email, and concert promotion

Jim Yehle

Programming Committee Chair

Horn
Organizer of the Programming Committee.

Auditions

Please contact Marty McMillan at saltlakesymphony@gmail.com to schedule all auditions, or with any questions.

August 13, 2024 – Section Strings, Principal Viola, 2nd bassoon

SLS has open auditions for all 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. There are no excerpts for section string auditions.

Principal Viola Audition:

  • Solo selection of the applicant’s choice
Orchestral excerpts will be chosen from the following:
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, 2nd mvt. measures 1-10, 23-37, 98-106
  • Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture, Reh. 1 to 8 measures after Reh.3
  • Mozart: Symphony No. 40, 4th mvt. measures 146-205
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, 1st mvt, Allegro non troppo until 6m after Reh. C
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5, 1st mvt. Reh. 15-17, Reh 32-3 after 38

2nd Bassoon

  • Wagner – Tannhauser Overture – opening (meas. 1-16)
  • Brahms – Symphony No. 3 – Mvt 4 – Opening to letter A
  • Bartok – Concerto For Orchestra – Mvt 2 meas. 8-24
  • Mozart – Marriage of Figaro – Overture meas. 1-24
  • Sibelius – Symphony 2 – Mvt 2 meas. 40 – 55

August 20, 2024 – Trumpet, Percussion, horn, bass trombone

Trumpet – principal and section positions open

  • Two minute solo of your choice
  • Bizet: Carmen Prelude
  • Stravinsky: Petrushka Ballerina’s dance trumpet solo, 1911 version
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5, 1st mvt. excerpts, trumpet 1
  • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, Promenade
  • Copland: Outdoor Overture, solo

Percussion – Principal and Section. Candidates may audition for percussion only or percussion and timpani

Solo Repertoire
  • Marimba: Bach movement of candidate’s choice
Orchestral Repertoire

Snare Drum

  • 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.
  • Prokofiev Lieutenant Kije Suite, 1st mvt.

Tambourine

  • Dvorak Carnival Overture -complete

Cymbals

  • Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
for those also interested in timpani
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, mvt. 1, coda to the end
  • Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis Mvt. 2, 4 m. after S to T; 4 m. after V to X; 2 m. before Z to end
  • Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4, mvt. 1, 4 m. before T to V

Horn –

bass trombone

  • Two minute solo of your choice
  • Mahler Symphony No. 6, mvt. 4, reh. 140 to reh. 143
  • Brahms Symphony No. 1, mvt. 4, reh. C m. 47-61
  • Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis, mvt. 2 Turandot: Scherzo, reh. H to 9 after reh. I
  • Schumann, Symphony No. 3, mvt. 3, m. 1-18
  • Berlioz, La Damnation de Faust, 6 m. before reh. 4 to 2 m. after reh. 5