Auditions form the gold standard for hiring practices in symphonic orchestras around the world. Nevertheless, research examining how auditions are evaluated by panel members remains sparse. The purpose of this brief research note is to present findings from a pilot project examining the feedback content of audition panelists during a realistic mock audition. Feedback received by 16 academy members of an internationally renowned orchestra was analyzed using inductive content analysis. A key finding of this study was that panelists tended to provide much more feedback related to improving expressivity (61.8%), compared with feedback on technique (24.5%) or other factors (e.g., tuning; 13.7%). As advancing our understanding of how orchestra auditions are evaluated may have considerable practical implications for how music educators can aid students in preparing for a successful transition to the professional circuit, we hope our pilot project might spur on future work investigating this important topic.

试镜是世界各地交响乐团招聘实践的黄金标准。然而，研究小组成员如何评估试镜的研究仍然很少。这份简短的研究报告的目的是展示一个试点项目的结果，该项目在真实的模拟试镜中检查试镜小组成员的反馈内容。使用归纳内容分析分析了国际知名乐团的 16 名学院成员收到的反馈。这项研究的一个重要发现是，与技术（24.5%）或其他因素（例如，调音；13.7%）的反馈相比，小组成员倾向于提供更多与提高表现力相关的反馈（61.8%）。