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Auditions.
Admissions.
Audiences.

The operating system for the performing arts — blind auditions and hiring, school and festival admissions, ticketing, donations, and a patron CRM. Built for orchestras, theaters, schools, festivals, churches, cruise lines, and military bands. Musician accounts stay free forever.

$0 to start Standard is $2,400/yr — founding members pay $990/yr, forever You keep 100% of ticket value

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Live opportunities

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14-day money-back guarantee (unused service — see Terms) No auto-renewal — we remind you Musician accounts free forever

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For Orchestras & Organizations

Orchestra & organization plans

From a single listing to full-season hiring — for orchestras, ensembles, theaters, opera & ballet companies, and cruise entertainment. Every plan includes a free profile claim and your first listing at no cost.

The founding window is open. Lock $990/yr for life before the Standard rate of $2,400/yr applies — capped at the first 50 organizations, first come, first served.

Free Claim

Free

Claim and customize your organization profile

Getting started — test the platform risk-free

  • Claim & verify your organization
  • Edit profile, logo, description
  • 1 free listing credit (any type)
  • Basic analytics (page views)
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Best Value

Founding Orchestra Pass

$2,400$990/year

Founding cohort — limited to the first 50 organizations

Every Standard feature, at a rate that never rises

Orchestras posting 4+ listings per season

Save $1,410/yr vs Standard — locked for life

  • Unlimited listings (all types)
  • Full analytics dashboard
  • Embeddable listing widget
  • Claimed/verified profile signal where applicable
  • Priority email support
  • Everything on Free, plus the distribution machinery on every plan

Buyers pay 5% + $0.99 per ticket order (vs 7% + $0.99 on Free)

Lock In Founding Rate
Most Powerful

Hiring OS Pro

$4,800/year

The complete audition operating system — applications through final round

Large orchestras running audition rounds

  • Everything in Orchestra Pass
  • In-platform applications
  • Audition prescreening (video uploads + written response)
  • Jury panel scoring & shortlisting
  • Audition Day: candidate numbers, randomized times (locked audit), check-in, rounds
  • Musician search & résumé database access
  • Applicant list, statuses & internal notes
  • CSV export of applicants
  • Team roles (admin + reviewers)
  • HMAC-signed outbound webhook events you can wire into Slate, Salesforce, Zapier, or any endpoint
  • Priority email support

Buyers pay 5% + $0.99 per ticket order (vs 7% + $0.99 on Free)

Get Hiring OS Pro

Standard Orchestra Pass

$2,400/year

The same features as Founding — this is the standard rate once the founding window closes

Organizations joining after the founding window

  • Unlimited listings (all types)
  • Full analytics dashboard
  • Embeddable listing widget
  • Claimed/verified profile signal where applicable
  • Everything on Free, plus the distribution machinery on every plan
Done For You

Full Service

from $12,000/year

Done-for-you: we post, optimize, promote, and report back

Personnel managers who want labor removed, not software added

  • Everything in Hiring OS Pro
  • We post and update your listings (bi-weekly)
  • Custom orchestra landing page (we maintain it)
  • Featured organization placement
  • Cadenza-hosted ticketing setup (first 5 events)
  • Monthly recruitment + audience reporting
  • Direct support — no platform learning curve

Sell $50,000+ in tickets a year?

A paid Cadenza plan lowers your buyers’ ticket fee from 7% to 5% — about $1,000/yr less at checkout on $50k of volume. Lower all-in prices help you sell, and you keep 100% of every ticket’s face value.

Compare every plan

Everything we offer, side by side.

For orchestras & ensembles. Start free, upgrade only when a feature pays for itself. Ticketing, season subscriptions, and the patron CRM come with every plan.

Free
$0
forever
Best value
Founding
$990
/yr · locked for life
Standard
$2,400
/yr after the window
Most Powerful
Hiring OS Pro
$4,800
/yr
Full Service
from $12,000
/yr
Listings & reach
Job & audition listings1 freeUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
Google for Jobs + weekly musician digests
Featured placement in audition search
Embeddable listings widget
Full analytics dashboard
Auditions & hiring
Per-listing view & application-count analytics
Full applicant tracking — packets, status, notes, filters, CSV
Audition prescreening (video / written)
Jury panels + scoring from anywhere
Audition Day: random draw (locked audit), check-in, rounds
Musician search & résumé database
Multi-user roles + HMAC webhooks (point at Slate, Salesforce, any endpoint)
Audience revenue — sell on every plan
Ticketing service fee (buyer-paid)7% + $0.995% + $0.995% + $0.995% + $0.995% + $0.99
Season subscription series
Patron CRM + IRS tax receipts
Donation campaigns + donor wall
Support
SupportForum supportPriority emailPriority emailPriority emailNamed team
Done-for-you setup & management
Claim freeLock in foundingGet StandardGet Hiring OS ProTalk to us

Founding is the Standard plan at a locked-in launch rate — same features, lower price during the founding window. Every paid plan is a fixed one-year term, billed once, with no auto-renewal and a 14-day money-back guarantee on unused service (Terms §6.1). Musicians are always free.

Enterprise — from $18,000/yr

For major orchestras, opera companies, and conservatories. The full donor CRM + ticketing + hiring + admissions stack, with custom webhook integrations, custom data exports, a dedicated success manager, and tailored onboarding — replacing a Tessitura + Slate setup that runs $30,000–$100,000/yr plus five-figure implementation.

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vs Tessitura $25–150k/yr vs Slate $30k/yr floor No five-figure setup One unified platform

See it live

Run your whole hiring process on one screen.

Post the audition, receive applications, prescreen by video, score with your jury, and move every candidate from applied to hired — all inside Cadenza.

cadenza.work/org/your-orchestra/applications
Cadenza Hiring OS applications dashboard showing the applicant funnel, packets, and decisions
The applicant funnel — counts by stage, packets, recommendations, decisions, and CSV export, in one view.

Audition prescreening

Prescreen auditions by video, before anyone travels.

Musicians submit video or written rounds; your panel reviews, scores, and advances or eliminates — so the live round is only your strongest candidates.

  • Video & written submissions
  • Advance / eliminate with notes
  • Filter by round and status
cadenza.work/org/your-orchestra/prescreening
Prescreen auditions by video, before anyone travels.
Every prescreen submission in one queue, with status filters and one-click advancement.

Jury scoring

Score finalists with your panel — from anywhere.

Build a jury panel, weight your criteria, and invite reviewers by secure link. Cadenza aggregates every juror’s scores and ranks the roster for you.

  • Weighted criteria you define
  • Invite jurors by link
  • Auto-ranked, exportable results
cadenza.work/org/your-orchestra/jury
Score finalists with your panel — from anywhere.
A jury panel with your criteria, every reviewer’s scores, and the full candidate roster.

Analytics

See exactly what every listing is doing.

Views, saves, applications, and click-through for every posting — broken down by instrument and country — so you know where your candidates are coming from.

  • Per-listing performance
  • Instrument & country breakdown
  • 30-day view trend
cadenza.work/org/your-orchestra/analytics
See exactly what every listing is doing.
Real recruitment analytics: funnel counters plus per-listing and per-segment breakdowns.

Everything above is Hiring OS Pro.

Claim your organization free, then turn on the full hiring suite when you’re ready to recruit.

Pay-as-you-go

Just need a few listings?

No subscription required. The $249 Job / Audition listing is self-serve. Lower-priced Program and Sub / Extra purchases are temporarily held until dedicated credits ship.

Job / Audition Listing

$249

Permanent positions, principal chairs, section auditions

Listed for 60 days across Cadenza search, Google for Jobs, and weekly musician digests. Includes 1 featured day.

Sub / Extra Call

$99 · held

Substitute musician calls, temporary positions

Temporarily unavailable while dedicated sub-call credits are completed. This prevents a lower-priced credit from redeeming a job listing.

Program / Competition

$149 · held

Festivals, summer programs, competitions, masterclasses

Temporarily unavailable while dedicated program credits are completed. The intended listing term is 90 days with deadline tracking.

Audition Day Pass

$499

$299

one-time · 60 days

Founding-window rate — rises to $499 when the window closes

Run one full blind audition without a subscription: in-platform applications, prescreening, the auditable random draw, candidate numbering, check-in, multi-round advancement, and weighted blind jury scoring. The complete audition OS for a single cycle no annual plan, never auto-charged.

Starts on confirmed payment and ends after 60 days. The pass does not include a job or listing credit, and Cadenza charges no per-applicant fee. After expiry, paid audition actions lock but organization records are not deleted simply because the pass ends. Review what's included, support, and refund terms.

Run a blind audition

Posting 4+ job/audition listings per year? A Founding Pass at $990/yr gives you unlimited listings less than four $249 listings.

Claim your org & post your first listing free

Claim is free. Your first listing is free. Additional self-serve job/audition listings are $249 each, or upgrade for unlimited. The lower-priced listing lanes are held until typed credits ship.

Included with every listing — on every plan

Google for Jobs distribution

Published with JobPosting JSON-LD so Google Jobs picks it up automatically.

Email digests to matching musicians

Musicians who saved your instrument, city, or organization get emailed when you post.

Instrument + city targeting

Surfaces to filtered searches and city/instrument landing pages with full SEO.

Deadline reminder system

Musicians who saved your listing get reminders before deadlines close.

iCal + RSS feeds

A public iCal feed and RSS per org — embeddable on your careers page.

View tracking on every listing

Live view counts on every listing; paid plans unlock the full dashboard.

Promote

Boosts & promotion add-ons

Surface a single listing or event without committing to a subscription. Self-serve checkout via Airwallex Payment Link. Works on top of any plan, including Free Claim.

Featured

$79/14 days

Top-of-browse placement with a ★ Featured badge

Featured

$149/30 days

Same featured placement, longer window

Featured Concert

$49/14 days

Spotlight a single concert or event on /events for 14 days

Urgent Badge

$99/72 hours

Red urgency badge for deadline-crunch postings

Spotlight

$299/60 days

Our longest, most prominent placement — top of every browse lane with a ★ Featured badge

Done-For-You Listing Setup

$299

We write, format, and publish your listing. Send us the details, we handle the rest.

Featured Digest Placement

$149

Promote your listing in our musician newsletter digest, in front of active classical & jazz musicians

Paid subscribers get priority on all add-ons.

Ticketing savings

See what a paid plan saves you

Enter your ticket price and volume. Paid plans drop Cadenza ticket fees from 7% to 5% — the math, not the marketing.

Your projected earnings

20
1100
150
102,000
$35
$5$150
On Cadenza Free

$105,000

your annual revenue, your full price

Buyer service fees$10,320
Rate7% + $0.99
With subscription
Same revenue, lower buyer fees

$105,000

unchanged — fees come off the buyer side

Buyer service fees$8,220
Rate5% + $0.99

Subscriber discount on buyer fees

$2,100per year

Your buyers pay $2,100 less in service fees when you subscribe — at zero cost to your organization. Founding Pass costs $990/yr.

See plans

Estimate assumes one ticket per order — the most the $0.99 flat fee can apply. Multi-ticket orders pay it once, so your real fees are lower and your net is higher.

Transparent by design

What you’ll never pay.

One clear annual price. No metered surprises, and no commission on the revenue that matters most to you.

No school-paid per-applicant fees

Unlike Acceptd or SlideRoom, schools do not pay Cadenza per application or submission — review as many as you like. Any official application fee is set by the school and disclosed to the applicant.

No cut of salaries or tuition

We never take a commission on a hire’s salary or a student’s tuition. What you save, you keep.

No setup or monthly fees

No onboarding charge and no monthly minimum — a single fixed annual price, billed once.

Keep 100% of ticket value

Buyers cover the service fee at checkout; your organization receives every dollar of face value.

How we compare

Built for classical music. Priced like it.

Generic platforms charge stack-on fees. Vertical platforms charge all-in. The same $30 ticket sold three different places:

Coming from

Musical Chairs

A listings board with no ticketing or donor CRM — and you already pay it $1,100/yr. Cadenza's founding rate is $990/yr — less than the board alone — with in-platform applications, ticketing, and a patron CRM included.

See the switch kit

Coming from

Tessitura / PatronManager

Enterprise donor systems run $25k–$150k/yr plus five-figure setup. Cadenza includes a patron CRM with IRS tax receipts on any annual pass — from $990/yr, no setup.

See the patron CRM

Coming from

Acceptd / SlideRoom / Slate

Acceptd & SlideRoom charge $20–$55 per applicant; Slate’s admissions CRM starts at $30k/yr. Cadenza’s School Recruitment OS has no school-paid per-applicant platform fee — from $2,400/yr.

See School OS
PlatformTicket fee on $30Annual subscriptionBuilt for
Cadenza (Founding)$2.49 (5% + $0.99)$990/yr unlimited listingsClassical & jazz musicians
Cadenza (free tier)$3.09 (7% + $0.99)$0 — pay per listingClassical & jazz musicians
Eventbrite Professional$3.77 (3.7% + $1.79 + 2.9%)No music-specific tierGeneric events
MusicalChairsNo ticketing$1,100/yr ($280 single)Audition listings

Eventbrite Professional pricing per their published rates; MusicalChairs per their publish page. Verified 2026-06-06. Cadenza ticketing service fees include payment processing; any school-set application fee shows its separate checkout service fee before payment.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Have a question not listed here? Contact us and we will get back to you within 24 hours.

Is Cadenza free for musicians?

Yes. Musicians can browse opportunities, save listings, set deadline alerts, build their profile, and track applications at no cost. There are no premium tiers or paywalls for individual musicians. If a school or organization sets its own official application fee, Cadenza shows that fee and the small checkout service fee before payment.

How does the 1 free listing work?

When you claim your organization, you get 1 free listing credit you can use for any listing type — a job, audition, sub call, competition, or program. This lets you try Cadenza risk-free before committing to a plan.

What’s the difference between pay-as-you-go and subscriptions?

Pay-as-you-go is ideal for organizations posting 1–3 listings per year at $249 each (your first listing is free; sub/extra and program rates are on request). Organization subscriptions ($990–$4,800/year) include unlimited listings and are better for organizations posting regularly; schools and military bands have their own plans. Four job/audition listings ($249 each = $996) cost more than a Founding Pass at $990/year — every listing after that is free.

What’s the Founding Pass?

A limited-time rate available to early adopters. Once you lock in the founding rate ($990/year), that price stays the same for the life of your subscription — even as standard prices increase. The founding cohort is limited to the first 50 organizations — first come, first served — and checkout closes automatically once the cohort is full.

Can I cancel my subscription?

Yes. All subscriptions are annual with no long-term contracts. Cancel anytime and your access continues through the end of your billing period. Note: cancelling a Founding Pass means losing the founding rate if you rejoin later.

Do you offer enterprise pricing?

Yes. For large organizations, multi-campus schools, or agencies we offer enterprise plans starting at $18,000/year with custom data exports, a dedicated success manager, and white-glove onboarding. Contact us to discuss your needs.

How does the practice room marketplace work?

Venues list practice rooms with pricing, photos, and amenities. Musicians search by city and book instantly. Hosts pay a 10% commission on completed bookings, deducted at payout. Musicians pay nothing beyond the room rate — no booking fee.

What are the concert ticket fees?

Standard rate is 7% + $0.99 per order, paid by the buyer at checkout. Paid Cadenza subscribers (Founding, Standard, Hiring OS Pro, or Full Service) drop to 5% + $0.99 per order. Donations added to a purchase are processed at 5%. No monthly fees, no setup costs, no minimums. Includes mobile delivery, QR check-in, promo codes, donations, merchandise add-ons, and real-time sales analytics.

What is Cadenza Executive Search & Advisory?

A professional-services practice operated by Cadenza for arts and culture institutions, covering board succession, leadership risk and executive transition. It is separate from Cadenza's software plans. Cadenza accepts non-confidential pilot inquiries through its public form. Any private introductory conversation is arranged separately, and Cadenza will not accept a paid advisory mandate until the remaining Release 1 legal, privacy, secure-workspace and delivery-capacity controls are in place.

Why does it say retained executive search is "in formation"?

Because it would not be true to say otherwise yet. Cadenza does not accept retained search mandates until its accountable search-delivery team and Release 2 controls are in place, and we do not claim placements we have not made. Board & Succession is in a controlled pilot stage while its remaining legal, privacy, workspace and capacity controls are completed. Boards planning a chief-executive transition can register non-confidential interest in future work; any private conversation is arranged separately.

What will a retained executive search cost when it opens?

Fixed professional fees from $60,000, scoped per mandate and set out in a signed fee schedule before any work begins. Cadenza does not price search as a percentage of the appointee's compensation, which avoids the incentive to push a board toward a more expensive hire. Approved expenses are separate and disclosed in advance, with no undisclosed markup.

How is candidate confidentiality handled in an executive search?

A person researched for a search is not treated as an applicant. Nobody is presented to a client without their consent, no references or background checks happen without written authorization, and nothing is published about a candidacy without permission. Candidates can correct factual records about themselves, opt out of future contact, and raise a complaint through a defined route.

Does advisory work require buying Cadenza software?

No. Search and advisory clients are never required to adopt Cadenza products, adviser compensation does not depend on any software cross-sell, and an adviser may recommend a different product where that is the right answer. Confidential advisory information is also never used to target marketplace recommendations, advertising or editorial coverage.

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