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The future of music institutions is connected.

Recruit talent. Make decisions. Run performances. Sell tickets. Build lasting relationships.

Cadenza keeps the people, decisions, performances, and relationships connected from one stage to the next.

Every season run across disconnected tools leaves more institutional knowledge behind. Cadenza turns each season into a foundation for the next.

Institutional continuity

Two relationship streams. One connected institution.

Talent relationship

01Discover & recruit
02Apply & evaluate
03Decide & engage

Program & performance

Audience relationship

01Publish & discover
02Ticket & attend
03Return & support

Flagship operating systems

A listing is the doorway. The operating system is the advantage.

Each operating system is built for the work behind the front door: intake, review, live operations, decisions, transactions, and the institutional history that makes the next season stronger.

8 operating systems · all shown below

Orchestra & ensemble

Orchestra Hiring OS

Publish the opening, receive applications, prescreen candidates, run an auditable audition, make the hire, then connect performances to patrons.

Complete workflow

  1. Publish
  2. Applications
  3. Auditions & hiring
  4. Performances
  5. Tickets & patrons

Built into this operating system

  • Publish openings and receive complete application packets
  • Prescreen video or written responses and coordinate jury review
  • Run anonymous Audition Day check-in, scoring, rounds, and advancement
  • Preserve shortlists, internal notes, decisions, analytics, and hiring history
Cadenza systems working together9
  • Listings & Publishing
  • Catalogue & Discovery
  • Applications & Tracker
  • Musician Identity
  • Audition Operations
  • Hiring & Talent
  • Events & Discovery
  • Ticketing & Box Office
  • Patron CRM & Fundraising

School & conservatory

School Recruitment & Admissions OS

Turn discovery and inquiries into applications, faculty review, decisions, offers, enrollment, and lasting institutional relationships.

Complete workflow

  1. Reach prospects
  2. Applications
  3. Review & admissions
  4. Offers
  5. Relationships

Built into this operating system

  • Capture inquiries, score leads, and manage prospective-student pipelines
  • Collect custom applications, fees, files, and recommendations
  • Assign faculty review, jury panels, notes, and decisions
  • Release offers and track accept, decline, enrollment, and withdrawal
Cadenza systems working together8
  • Catalogue & Discovery
  • Listings & Publishing
  • Applications & Tracker
  • Musician Identity
  • Admissions & Recruitment
  • Events & Discovery
  • Patron CRM & Fundraising
  • Community & Forum

Festival & competition

Festival & Competition OS

Launch the call, collect complete packets and fees, coordinate review, make decisions, then publish and sell the program.

Complete workflow

  1. Launch program
  2. Collect applications
  3. Judge & decide
  4. Present
  5. Tickets & patrons

Built into this operating system

  • Collect media, repertoire, references, fees, and waivers in one packet
  • Run blind weighted jury scoring, rounds, and advancement
  • Release embargoed decisions, e-signed offers, scholarships, and aid
  • Track deposits, participant details, passes, tickets, and donor history
Cadenza systems working together8
  • Festivals & Programs
  • Listings & Publishing
  • Applications & Tracker
  • Competitions
  • Audition Operations
  • Events & Discovery
  • Ticketing & Box Office
  • Patron CRM & Fundraising

Presenter & venue

Audience Revenue OS

Publish performances, sell single and group tickets, fulfill entry, understand patrons, and grow repeat attendance and support.

Complete workflow

  1. Build program
  2. Publish events
  3. Sell tickets & groups
  4. Serve audiences
  5. Grow patron value

Built into this operating system

  • Publish events with ticket tiers, subscriptions, and reserved seating
  • Run group sales from inquiry through quote, reservation, and order
  • Manage ticket fulfillment, door check-in, exchanges, refunds, and comps
  • Carry attendance, donations, and purchases into patron history
Cadenza systems working together5
  • Organization Workspace
  • Events & Discovery
  • Ticketing & Box Office
  • Community & Forum
  • Patron CRM & Fundraising
Actual Cadenza interfaces

This is the product—not a concept.

Inspect the workflows themselves. These are real Cadenza demonstration interfaces using clearly labeled sample data—not speculative renderings or customer claims.

Sample data · Actual Cadenza interface

cadenza.work/demo/hiring-os/applications
Hiring Operations: Applicant funnel, prescreening, jury review, shortlist status, analytics, and team decisions.

Hiring & Talent Operations

Hiring Operations

Applicant funnel, prescreening, jury review, shortlist status, analytics, and team decisions.

Sample data · Actual Cadenza interface

Open the hiring demo

Purpose-built operating systems

The same depth, built for your world.

Theater companies, cruise lines, churches, and military bands get workflows shaped around how their people actually recruit, decide, schedule, and perform—not a generic database with a music label.

Theater & pit

Theater & Pit Hiring OS

Post the call, collect applications, run the audition, keep a permissioned substitute roster, and sell the production from the same institutional workspace.

Complete workflow

  1. Publish the call
  2. Applications
  3. Audition & cast
  4. Run the production
  5. Tickets & patrons

Built into this operating system

  • Publish pit, touring, local-hire, and substitute calls
  • Collect résumés, media, doubling, and availability in one packet
  • Run prescreening, panel review, live audition day, and offers
  • Keep opted-in substitute rosters connected to productions and ticket sales
Cadenza systems working together10
  • Listings & Publishing
  • Catalogue & Discovery
  • Applications & Tracker
  • Musician Identity
  • Audition Operations
  • Hiring & Talent
  • Events & Discovery
  • Organization Workspace
  • Ticketing & Box Office
  • Patron CRM & Fundraising

Cruise & shipboard

Cruise Entertainment Recruitment OS

Publish shipboard roles, collect media-rich applications, run rolling video auditions, and preserve a fleet-wide talent pipeline across contract windows.

Complete workflow

  1. Publish contracts
  2. Applications & media
  3. Screen & decide
  4. Coordinate shipboard
  5. Retain talent

Built into this operating system

  • Publish show-band, orchestra, soloist, vocalist, and music-director roles
  • Collect résumés, video, doubling, availability, and contract readiness
  • Run rolling prescreening, remote panel scoring, shortlists, and decisions
  • Carry qualified talent forward across ships, agencies, and crew-change windows
Cadenza systems working together8
  • Listings & Publishing
  • Catalogue & Discovery
  • Applications & Tracker
  • Musician Identity
  • Audition Operations
  • Hiring & Talent
  • Organization Workspace
  • Events & Discovery

Church & worship

Church Music OS

Recruit music staff, run auditions and ensembles, sell concerts, fund the program, and preserve community relationships.

Complete workflow

  1. Reach musicians
  2. Applications
  3. Audition & select
  4. Run ensembles
  5. Grow community

Built into this operating system

  • Recruit organists, directors, section leaders, scholars, and choir members
  • Run blind auditions with prescreening, jury scoring, candidate numbers, and a fairness export
  • Manage ensembles, sections, rehearsal notes, open seats, and join requests
  • Operate sub rosters, concert ticketing, music-fund campaigns, and donor history
Cadenza systems working together8
  • Listings & Publishing
  • Catalogue & Discovery
  • Applications & Tracker
  • Audition Operations
  • Hiring & Talent
  • Church & Worship
  • Community & Forum
  • Patron CRM & Fundraising

Military band

Military Band Recruitment OS

Publish openings, receive complete applications, prescreen musicians, run controlled audition day, and keep recruiting teams accountable.

Complete workflow

  1. Publish openings
  2. Applications
  3. Prescreen & shortlist
  4. Audition day
  5. Recruit & report

Built into this operating system

  • Publish verified band profiles and openings across discovery and alerts
  • Collect applications, résumés, video, and written prescreen materials
  • Run anonymous candidate numbers, locked schedules, check-in, rounds, and jury scoring
  • Coordinate team roles, internal notes, exports, analytics, and webhook handoff
Cadenza systems working together7
  • Listings & Publishing
  • Catalogue & Discovery
  • Applications & Tracker
  • Musician Identity
  • Audition Operations
  • Hiring & Talent
  • Organization Workspace

Choose your institution

See the whole journey.

Select the institution closest to yours. Every path names the work, the Cadenza systems involved, and the context that moves forward instead of being recreated.

More institutional paths

Orchestra & ensemble

From the first opportunity to the next patron relationship, keep the season connected.

Explore Cadenza for orchestras
01

Publish

Listings & PublishingCatalogue & Discovery

Context carried forward

Create, publish, renew, govern, and measure opportunities with source and route truth built in.

Institutional outcome

Reach qualified people

02

Applications

Applications & TrackerMusician Identity

Context carried forward

Prepare reusable materials, submit durable packets, receive immutable receipts, review candidates, and track outcomes.

Institutional outcome

Move from interest to decision

03

Auditions & hiring

Audition OperationsHiring & Talent

Context carried forward

Run blind, multi-round auditions with seeded draws, check-in, lobby display, jury scoring, advancement, and fairness evidence.

Institutional outcome

Run audition day end to end

04

Performances

Events & Discovery

Context carried forward

Create, enrich, publish, discover, save, and calendar performances with venues, artists, works, and programs connected.

Institutional outcome

Turn programming into an audience

05

Tickets & patrons

Ticketing & Box OfficePatron CRM & Fundraising

Context carried forward

Sell and fulfill tickets with seats, holds, orders, check-in, waitlists, group sales, refunds, and exchanges.

Institutional outcome

Own the audience transaction

Connected records carry context forward, so the next team starts informed instead of starting over.

Disconnected → connected

Connected systems carry context forward.

Talent and audience are different relationships. Cadenza keeps both coherent around the institution's programs and performances without pretending they are the same record.

Talent

Across disconnected tools

A résumé is re-entered, review notes live in a spreadsheet, and the final engagement loses the history behind the decision.

Connected with Cadenza

Listing
Application
Review
Decision
Engagement

Admissions

Across disconnected tools

Inquiry, packet, faculty review, offer, and enrollment live in separate tools with separate versions of the applicant.

Connected with Cadenza

Inquiry
Application
Faculty review
Offer
Enrollment

Audience

Across disconnected tools

Program details are recreated for the event, the ticket order, the door, and the patron database.

Connected with Cadenza

Program
Event
Ticket
Attendance
Patron

Revenue

Across disconnected tools

Tickets, donations, memberships, and inventory produce isolated transactions instead of usable relationship history.

Connected with Cadenza

Transaction
Fulfillment
Relationship
CRM
Reporting

All 19 connected systems

Explore every system.

See the problem each system solves, who it serves, what becomes possible, and how it connects to the rest of Cadenza.

Availability truth

Available nowAvailable now · expandingGuided implementationPrivate pilot
01

Establish & reach

06 / 19

Build a trusted presence and reach the right people.

Workspace, publishing, discovery, identity, knowledge, and community create the institutional front door.

01Available nowCatalogue & DiscoveryMusicians · PublicSearch, filter, understand, save, and revisit active opportunities across the classical and jazz world.Find the right next moveSee how it works

Works directly with

Listings & PublishingMusician IdentityApplications & Tracker

Available now as a working product flow.

Explore this system
02Available nowListings & PublishingOrganizationsCreate, publish, renew, govern, and measure opportunities with source and route truth built in.Reach qualified peopleSee how it works

Works directly with

Catalogue & DiscoveryApplications & TrackerEvents & Discovery

Available now as a working product flow.

Explore this system
03Available nowMusician IdentityMusiciansKeep one professional profile, resume, repertoire, media library, and document vault ready for every opportunity.Be ready to applySee how it works

Works directly with

Applications & TrackerAudition OperationsCommunity & Forum

Available now as a working product flow.

Explore this system
04Available nowOrganization WorkspaceOrganizations · AdminsClaim and operate a secure tenant with teams, roles, settings, billing, webhooks, analytics, and compliance controls.Run from one workspaceSee how it works

Works directly with

Listings & PublishingHiring & TalentTicketing & Box Office

Available now as a working product flow.

Explore this system
15Available nowCommunity & ForumMusicians · OrganizationsCreate durable conversations with boards, topics, replies, reactions, watches, reporting, and moderation controls.Keep the field connectedSee how it works

Works directly with

Musician IdentityNewsroom & KnowledgeEvents & Discovery

Available now as a working product flow.

Explore this system
16Available nowNewsroom & KnowledgePublic · EditorsPublish and govern news, analysis, editions, tips, history, repertoire, salary intelligence, and reference content.Turn information into authoritySee how it works

Works directly with

Catalogue & DiscoveryCommunity & ForumEvents & Discovery

Available now as a working product flow.

Explore this system
02

Recruit & decide

05 / 19

Move from interest to an accountable decision.

Applications, auditions, hiring, admissions, and leadership search preserve the evidence behind every selection.

05Available nowApplications & TrackerApplicants · ReviewersPrepare reusable materials, submit durable packets, receive immutable receipts, review candidates, and track outcomes.Move from interest to decisionSee how it works

Works directly with

Musician IdentityAudition OperationsAdmissions & Recruitment

Available now as a working product flow.

Explore this system
06Available nowAudition OperationsCandidates · Juries · AdminsRun blind, multi-round auditions with seeded draws, check-in, lobby display, jury scoring, advancement, and fairness evidence.Run audition day end to endSee how it works

Works directly with

Applications & TrackerHiring & TalentEvents & Discovery

Available now as a working product flow.

Explore this system
07Available nowHiring & TalentOrchestras · EmployersTake a role from posting through prescreening, selection, offer, placement, talent pool, and continuing roster operations.Hire without spreadsheet driftSee how it works

Works directly with

Listings & PublishingApplications & TrackerAudition Operations

Available now as a working product flow.

Explore this system
08Available nowAdmissions & RecruitmentSchools · ApplicantsConnect inquiries, applications, recommendations, interviews, aid, decisions, waitlists, and enrollment deposits.Recruit and enroll the right cohortSee how it works

Works directly with

Applications & TrackerEvents & DiscoveryPatron CRM & Fundraising

Available now as a working product flow.

Explore this system
18Guided implementationExecutive Search & AdvisoryBoards · Search committeesGovern confidential retained search from mandate and research through consent, committee work, diligence, appointment, and guarantee.Make consequential leadership decisionsSee how it works

Works directly with

Organization WorkspaceApplications & TrackerHiring & Talent

Built and operated through a private implementation process.

Explore this system
03

Run programs & performances

04 / 19

Operate the work people experience.

Festival, competition, worship, and performance workflows connect internal delivery to the public moment.

09Available now · expandingFestivals & ProgramsFestivals · ProgramsRecruit participants and connect applications, dated programs, faculty, passes, events, and ticketing in one flow.Fill and operate a programSee how it works

Works directly with

Applications & TrackerEvents & DiscoveryTicketing & Box Office

The core workflow is live; product depth is still expanding.

Explore this system
10Available now · expandingCompetitionsCompetitors · OrganizersHandle eligibility, applications, blind jury work, tracks, rounds, ranking, prizes, and public results.Run a credible competitionSee how it works

Works directly with

Applications & TrackerAudition OperationsEvents & Discovery

The core workflow is live; product depth is still expanding.

Explore this system
11Available nowEvents & DiscoveryPresenters · AudiencesCreate, enrich, publish, discover, save, and calendar performances with venues, artists, works, and programs connected.Turn programming into an audienceSee how it works

Works directly with

Listings & PublishingTicketing & Box OfficePatron CRM & Fundraising

Available now as a working product flow.

Explore this system
17Available nowChurch & WorshipChurches · MusiciansConnect music-staff hiring, blind auditions, ensembles, memberships, openings, and join requests for sacred-music teams.Build and sustain the music programSee how it works

Works directly with

Listings & PublishingAudition OperationsEvents & Discovery

Available now as a working product flow.

Explore this system
04

Grow revenue & relationships

04 / 19

Turn transactions into lasting institutional value.

Ticketing, patrons, inventory, and intelligence keep revenue connected to the relationships that created it.

12Available nowTicketing & Box OfficePresenters · Box officeSell and fulfill tickets with seats, holds, orders, check-in, waitlists, group sales, refunds, and exchanges.Own the audience transactionSee how it works

Works directly with

Events & DiscoveryPatron CRM & FundraisingMarketplace

Available now as a working product flow.

Explore this system
13Available nowPatron CRM & FundraisingDevelopment · Audience teamsConnect patrons, households, gifts, campaigns, pledges, grants, donor segments, communications, and impact reporting.Build durable supporter valueSee how it works

Works directly with

Ticketing & Box OfficeEvents & DiscoveryMarketplace

Available now as a working product flow.

Explore this system
14Available now · expandingMarketplaceHosts · Buyers · OrganizationsPublish and transact practice rooms, memberships, merchandise, and other bookable inventory on shared checkout rails.Monetize more than ticketsSee how it works

Works directly with

Events & DiscoveryTicketing & Box OfficePatron CRM & Fundraising

The core workflow is live; product depth is still expanding.

Explore this system
19Private pilotForecastsMusicians · ResearchersCreate, participate in, resolve, score, and audit source-governed forecasts about orchestra hiring outcomes.Measure judgment, not noiseSee how it works

Works directly with

Catalogue & DiscoveryNewsroom & KnowledgeHiring & Talent

Working product access limited to approved pilot users.

Explore this system

Why the systems connect

19 connected systems.8 shared capabilities.

The products do not merely coexist. They share the capabilities that should be shared, so identity, applications, transactions, communications, discovery, and reporting carry context forward.

Shared identity

People, teams, roles, and permissions remain recognizable across workflows.

Universal applications

Reusable materials and durable receipts reduce repeated applicant work.

Payments & transactions

Orders, fees, billing, and entitlements use governed transaction rails.

Communications

Messages, notifications, and schedules stay attached to the work they concern.

Search & discovery

People can find relevant opportunities, programs, events, and inventory.

Analytics

Teams see operational progress, outcomes, revenue, and relationship history.

Verified catalogue data

Source and route truth keep public information dependable and recoverable.

Integrations

Imports, webhooks, recovery, and external handoffs keep the platform open.

Trust and operations

Built to operate seriously.

Administration & support
Privacy & governance
Monitoring & controlled releases

Choose how to start

Start with the handoff that hurts most. Keep the future open.

Explore the path for your institution, inspect the live demos, or compare plans. Adopt the workflow you need now and preserve the context the next one will need later.

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