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Festival admissions: $12,000/yr Festival Admissions Pro for the real season, with private pilots by invitation
14-day money-back guarantee (unused service — see Terms)No auto-renewal — we remind youMusician accounts free forever
Transparent pricing · built for classical & jazz
Recruit musicians. Promote events. Sell tickets.
One platform for the entire performing-arts workflow — hiring, admissions, ticketing, and donor CRM. Start free, then choose the track that matches your organization: orchestras, schools, festivals, ticketing, rooms, or musician tools. Musician accounts, discovery, alerts, and dashboards stay free forever.
$0 to start Separate orchestra and school plans below
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. Schools and military bands have their own plans below.
Free
$0
forever
Best value
Founding
Org plan
locked for life
Standard
Org plan
annual
Most Powerful
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.
How it works
From sign-up to first hire in minutes
1
Claim your profile
Search for your organization, verify ownership, and customize your page with logo, description, and details. Takes under 5 minutes.
2
Post your first listing
Use your 1 free listing credit to post a job, audition, sub call, or program listing. It goes live instantly across Cadenza search, alerts, and feeds.
3
Manage applications
Track who is viewing and applying. Upgrade to a subscription for unlimited listings, full analytics, and hiring tools.
Every listing gets
Distribution machinery, included on every plan
Whether you post one $99 sub call or run the unlimited tier, every listing inherits the same reach. No upsells for the basics.
Google for Jobs distribution
Every listing is published with JobPosting JSON-LD so Google Jobs picks it up automatically — your audition appears in Google searches without extra work.
Email digests to matching musicians
Musicians who saved your instrument, city, or organization get emailed when you post. Built-in audience, not a paid blast.
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
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
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
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
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.
No subscription required. Purchase individual listings when you need them. Every listing includes automatic Google Jobs integration.
Job / Audition Listing
$249
Permanent positions, principal chairs, section auditions
Listed for 60 days. Seen by thousands of active musicians. Includes 1 featured day.
Sub / Extra Call
$99
Substitute musician calls, temporary positions
Listed for 30 days. Surfaced through per-instrument feeds and our musician digest.
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
See it live
Your admissions workflow, on one screen.
Applications, auditions, recommendations, decisions, offers, and analytics — the entire conservatory recruitment loop, running inside Cadenza.
cadenza.work/org/your-school/admissions
The Admissions OS — live counts of cycles, applicants, and inquiries, with the whole recruitment workflow one click away.
Applicant pipeline
Every applicant, in one reviewable view.
Transcripts, essays, audition video and audio, recommendation letters, and fee status — each applicant’s full packet on a single screen, with filters, search, and CSV export.
Inline audition playback
Secure, access-controlled files
Filter by instrument, status, payment
cadenza.work/org/your-school/applications
Each applicant card opens transcripts, essays, audition media, recommendations, and payment status in place.
Audition scoring
Faculty audition panels, built in.
Stand up a panel, weight your criteria, and let faculty score from anywhere. Cadenza ranks candidates automatically and keeps the whole roster in view.
Weighted criteria you define
Per-juror scores + averages
Ranked, exportable results
cadenza.work/org/your-school/jury
An audition panel with your criteria, every juror’s scores, and an auto-ranked results table.
Decisions & yield
From first inquiry to enrolled.
Move applicants through review, shortlist, waitlist, accept, and enrolled — with decision emails, scholarship offers, and a live read on your funnel at every step.
Six-stage decision lifecycle
Automated applicant emails
Scholarship & admission offers
cadenza.work/org/your-school/dashboard
Your overview: what needs attention, the recruitment launch checklist, and live inquiry and applicant counts.
Everything above runs in Cadenza today.
Claim your school, publish an admissions cycle, and start receiving applications this week.
One clean ladder for summer festivals, academies, fellowships, competitions, and intensives: Festival Admissions Pro for the full season, with private implementation pilots handled directly for selected festivals.
The full festival admissions season — applications through decisions — with automation, transition support, and guided rollout.
Festivals running the full admissions season
For Schools & Conservatories
School & conservatory plans
Every school gets a free profile in the directory with tuition, programs, and faculty info. Upgrade for recruitment tools that turn inquiries into enrolled students.
Reach musicians actively seeking military band careers through Cadenza search, alerts, and the military directory. Post auditions, manage applicants, and fill positions faster.
Band Profile
Free
Claim your band and be discoverable
Perfect for: Bands wanting basic Cadenza presence
Band profile & branding
Appear in military band directory
1 free audition listing
Marketplace
Practice rooms & concert tickets
The Cadenza Marketplace connects musicians with practice rooms where inventory is live and concert tickets worldwide. Low fees, no listing costs, no monthly charges.
Practice Room Bookings
10%
Host commission, deducted at payout. Musicians pay only the room rate.
Free for musicians — no booking fee
List your rooms at no upfront cost
Global reach across 140 countries
For Musicians
Musicians are free — forever
No premium tiers, no paywall, no “contact us for pricing.” Musicians are the heart of Cadenza and will never be charged. Here is everything you get:
Find auditions, jobs, competitions, festivals, and programs across every instrument and genre
Save & Shortlist
Bookmark opportunities and organize them into personal lists you can revisit anytime
Built for the performing arts
Cadenza is purpose-built for classical and jazz musicians, orchestras, ensembles, festivals, and music schools.
Secure & Private
Industry-standard encryption. We never sell your data — it is shared only with the processors needed to run the service.
Global Reach
Musicians and organizations across many countries. Listings reach a worldwide audience.
Fast Support
Priority email support for all subscribers. Enterprise clients get dedicated account managers.
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 adds in-platform applications, ticketing, and a patron CRM at a comparable price.
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 $1,500/yr, no setup.
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.
Ready to reach the right musicians?
Claim your profile free. Post your first listing free. Join the platform built specifically for the performing arts.
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.
vs Tessitura $25–150k/yr vs Slate $30k/yr floor No five-figure setup One unified platform
Keep 100% of ticket value
Buyers cover the service fee at checkout; your organization receives every dollar of face value.
Instrument + city targeting
Listings tagged by required instrument(s) and venue location. 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. Reduces ghosting on time-sensitive posts.
iCal + RSS feeds
Each org gets a public iCal feed and RSS for listings. Schools embed it on their careers page; musicians subscribe in their calendar app.
View tracking on every listing
Every listing shows live view counts. Paid plans unlock the full analytics dashboard — saves, apply-clicks, and conversion trends.
Paid tiers add unlimited posts, the full analytics dashboard, applicant tracking, and the claimed/verified profile signal where applicable — but the distribution above is the same on every plan.
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.
Listed for 90 days. Integrated deadline tracking alerts prospective participants.
Audition Day Pass
$299
one-time \u00b7 60 days
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.
Festival buyers use this ladder: Festival Admissions Pro for the real season. Private implementation pilots are handled directly, not as a public self-serve price.
Claimed and verified profile signals show applicants when an organization has been approved.
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.
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.
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 $99–$249 each. Organization subscriptions ($1,500–$4,800/year) include unlimited listings and are better for organizations posting regularly; schools and military bands have their own plans. Seven job/audition listings ($249 each = $1,743) cost more than a Founding Pass at $1,500/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 ($1,500/year), that price stays the same for the life of your subscription — even as standard prices increase. Limited spots, first-come first-served.
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.
