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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.
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 |
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One clear annual price. No metered surprises, and no commission on the revenue that matters most to you.
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.
We never take a commission on a hire’s salary or a student’s tuition. What you save, you keep.
No onboarding charge and no monthly minimum — a single fixed annual price, billed once.
Search for your organization, verify ownership, and customize your page with logo, description, and details. Takes under 5 minutes.
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.
Track who is viewing and applying. Upgrade to a subscription for unlimited listings, full analytics, and hiring tools.
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.
See it live
Post the audition, receive applications, prescreen by video, score with your jury, and move every candidate from applied to hired — all inside Cadenza.

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

Jury scoring
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.

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

Claim your organization free, then turn on the full hiring suite when you’re ready to recruit.
From a single listing to full-season hiring. Every plan includes a free profile claim and your first listing at no cost.
See the hiring dashboard in actionFree Claim
Claim and customize your organization profile
Getting started — test the platform risk-free
$1,743 → $1,500
7 job/audition listings ($249 each) cost more than a Founding Pass — every listing after is free
$2,400 → $1,500
your founding rate — locked in for life before Standard pricing
Unlimited
listings included in every subscription plan
Enter your ticket price and volume. Paid plans drop Cadenza ticket fees from 7% to 5% — the math, not the marketing.
$105,000
your annual revenue, your full price
$105,000
unchanged — fees come off the buyer side
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 $1,500/yr.
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.
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
Top-of-browse placement with a ★ Featured badge
Featured
Same featured placement, longer window
Featured Concert
See it live
Applications, auditions, recommendations, decisions, offers, and analytics — the entire conservatory recruitment loop, running inside Cadenza.

Applicant pipeline
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.

Audition scoring
Stand up a panel, weight your criteria, and let faculty score from anywhere. Cadenza ranks candidates automatically and keeps the whole roster in view.

Decisions & yield
Move applicants through review, shortlist, waitlist, accept, and enrolled — with decision emails, scholarship offers, and a live read on your funnel at every step.

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.
See the festival workflowFestival Admissions Pro
The full festival admissions season — applications through decisions — with automation, transition support, and guided rollout.
Festivals running the full admissions season
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.
See the admissions dashboard in actionFree Profile
Be discoverable in the school directory
Schools wanting visibility at no cost
Reach musicians actively seeking military band careers through Cadenza search, alerts, and the military directory. Post auditions, manage applicants, and fill positions faster.
Claim your band and be discoverable
Perfect for: Bands wanting basic Cadenza presence
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.
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:
See the applicant experience in actionFind auditions, jobs, competitions, festivals, and programs across every instrument and genre
Bookmark opportunities and organize them into personal lists you can revisit anytime
Cadenza is purpose-built for classical and jazz musicians, orchestras, ensembles, festivals, and music schools.
Industry-standard encryption. We never sell your data — it is shared only with the processors needed to run the service.
Musicians and organizations across many countries. Listings reach a worldwide audience.
Priority email support for all subscribers. Enterprise clients get dedicated account managers.
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.
See the switch kitComing 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 $1,500/yr, no setup.
See the patron CRMComing from
Acceptd / SlideRoom / Slate
Have a question not listed here? Contact us and we will get back to you within 24 hours.
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.
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.
Claim your profile free. Post your first listing free. Join the platform built specifically for the performing arts.
Questions? Email hello@cadenza.work
Covering 3,832+ performing-arts organizations across 140 countries · no auto-renewal, ever
Full Service Custom annual |
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| Listings & reach | |||||
| Job & audition listings | 1 free | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| 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% + $0.99 | 5% + $0.99 | 5% + $0.99 | 5% + $0.99 | 5% + $0.99 |
| Season subscription series | |||||
| Patron CRM + IRS tax receipts | — | ||||
| Donation campaigns + donor wall | |||||
| Support | |||||
| Support | Forum support | Priority email | Priority email | Priority email | Named team |
| Done-for-you setup & management | — | — | — | — | |
| Claim free | See org lane | See org lane | See org lane | Talk 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.
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.
Any paid plan
2 pts lower ticket fee (~$1,000/yr on $50k)
Founding Orchestra Pass
Limited-time founding rate — locks in for life
Orchestras posting 7+ listings per season
Locked for life at the founding rate — Standard is $2,400/yr
Plus: buyers pay just 5% + $0.99 per order (vs 7% + $0.99 on Free)
Standard Orchestra Pass
Everything in Founding — standard pricing
Organizations joining after the founding window closes
Plus: buyers pay just 5% + $0.99 per order (vs 7% + $0.99 on Free)
Hiring OS Pro
Full hiring suite with application management
Large orchestras running audition rounds
Plus: buyers pay just 5% + $0.99 per order (vs 7% + $0.99 on Free)
Full Service
Done-for-you: we post, optimize, promote, and report back
Personnel managers who want labor removed, not software added
Plus: buyers pay just 5% + $0.99 per order (vs 7% + $0.99 on Free)
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.
Program / Competition
$149
Festivals, summer programs, competitions, masterclasses
Listed for 90 days. Integrated deadline tracking alerts prospective participants.
Audition Day Pass
$299
one-time \u00b7 60 daysRun 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.
Posting 7+ job/audition listings per year? A Founding Pass at $1,500/yr gives you unlimited listings — less than seven $249 listings.
Claim is free. Your first listing is free. Additional listings $99–$249 each, or upgrade for unlimited.
Spotlight a single concert or event on /events for 14 days
Urgent Badge
Red urgency badge for deadline-crunch postings
Spotlight
Our longest, most prominent placement — top of every browse lane with a ★ Featured badge
Newsletter Placement
Sponsored slot in the next weekly digest to opted-in musicians
Done-For-You Listing Setup
$199
We write, format, and publish your listing. Send us the details, we handle the rest.
Featured Digest Placement
from $99
Promote your listing in our musician newsletter digest, in front of active classical & jazz musicians
Paid subscribers get priority on all add-ons.
Private implementation pilot
Configure the buyer’s real admissions workflow before the season; any setup fee can apply toward the annual plan.
Festivals that need proof with their real programs before full rollout
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.
Founding School Pass
Limited-time founding rate — locks in for life
Schools actively recruiting students
Founding price — locked for life
Recruitment Standard
Active recruitment pipeline tools
Schools running an active recruitment cycle
Recruitment Pro
Mid-size schools with ongoing auditions, programs, and admissions visibility — set up with a guided demo
Conservatories & universities with year-round audition flow
Enterprise Recruitment OS
Full admissions/recruitment OS at scale — the in-house alternative to Slate, at a fraction of its $30k+ floor and setup
Large conservatories & multi-program universities running high-volume admissions
School Recruitment Full Service
Cadenza helps manage recruitment visibility, audition postings, program pages, and reporting
Serious schools, conservatories, and university music programs
Unlimited listings & full visibility
Perfect for: Bands posting auditions regularly
Complete recruitment & applicant management
Perfect for: Active bands recruiting musicians year-round
Done-for-you Cadenza recruitment presence — we handle posting, updates, and visibility
Perfect for: Premier U.S. service bands
Concert Ticket Sales
7% + $0.99/order
Drops to 5% + $0.99/order for paid Cadenza subscribers.
Set reminders for application deadlines so you never miss a submission window
Build a professional profile with your bio, training, experience, and instrument specializations
Track where you have applied, what is pending, and manage your audition pipeline
Access opportunities worldwide across orchestras, schools, and programs in many countries
Find and book practice rooms at concert halls and studios worldwide — no booking fee for musicians
Discover and purchase tickets to concerts, recitals, and performances from venues globally
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.
| Platform | Ticket fee on $30 | Annual subscription | Built for |
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| Cadenza (Founding) | $2.49 (5% + $0.99) | $1,500/yr unlimited listings | Classical & jazz musicians |
| Cadenza (free tier) | $3.09 (7% + $0.99) | $0 — pay per listing | Classical & jazz musicians |
| Eventbrite Professional | $3.77 (3.7% + $1.79 + 2.9%) | No music-specific tier | Generic events |
| MusicalChairs | No 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.