I've heard that an additional 4 trials have been offered to people that weren't at the audition. Coincidentally, 3 of these did not audition for their current jobs, either
Pittsburgh did this type of thing for principal flute and it still took them 10 years to hire. Clearly not a fair or effective way to proceed. Hold another audition!
best to keep that info private for now, but two of them are principals in other orchestras, and one is a student. Will be interesting to see what happens!
I believe this ended in a no hire.
who?
Three trials were awarded