The Utah Symphony Chorus will be holding auditions for the new season on April 23-24.

Upcoming repertoire for the 2013-14 season includes Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust, Sept. 28-29, and Mozart’s Mass in C (Trinity), K. 167, Feb. 7-8, 2014, both under the baton of music director Thierry Fischer.

Interested singers should be excellent musicians with significant choral and vocal performance experience. Applicants should contact Shaun Ricks at 801-869-9050 or by email at sricks@usuo.org to request an appointment. Each audition consists of vocal exercises, sight reading and singing a simple, well known tune.

A limited number of paid section leader positions are also available for all sections. Section leaders receive an honorarium for participation in each concert. Applicants for section leader should prepare an aria or art song for the audition.

The Utah Opera Chorus will be holding auditions for the new season on April 16 and 18.

The repertoire involving the chorus for the 2013-14 season includes Verdi’s La traviata, Puccini’s Turandot and Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio. In addition, the men of the chorus will perform Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust in concert with the Utah Symphony under music director Thierry Fischer.

Auditions will be held at the Utah Opera Production Studios, 336 N. 400 West, by appointment only. Applicants should be trained singers living in Utah with significant stage experience. They must have one aria or art song prepared from memory and will be asked to sight sing. Applicants should contact Shaun Ricks at sricks@usuo.org to request an audition.

Further information can be found at www.utahopera.org/about/UtahOperaChorus.