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Auditions take place in front of orchestra general manager Keith Lau and AYO founder and artistic director, Richard Pontzious, who has a reputation of being as impatient as you-know-who.
FORBES: Idol's Asian Disciples
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Martin Hoffmann, the orchestra's general manager said it was "very sad news" for the orchestra and the city of Berlin.
BBC: Sir Simon Rattle
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Boston Symphony Orchestra trombonist (and later personnel manager) Bill Moyer says he remembers when Hobson Pilot joined the BSO.
NPR: Going Out On A Glissando: BSO Harpist Retires
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In the spring of 1999, when Lang was sixteen, he went to New York and in a single afternoon auditioned for the Cleveland Orchestra, at Carnegie Hall, and for a manager of the Chicago Symphony.
NEWYORKER: The Olympian