The NY Philharmonic actually do their auditions with the candidate behind a curtain, so that the judges don't know their sex, etc.
I only point it out because that is probably the only reason this guy got a try out in the first place.
Look at any footage of symphonies from forty or fifty years ago. They were overwhelmingly male.
The trend has been reversed. I don't believe it is that there are suddenly so many better female musicians.
Yeah, but when the judges say, "Thank you" and the "Your welcome" comes back from behind the curtain, it's a dead giveaway.
Many moons ago the Detroit Symphony did the same thing. Applicants never spoke, had numbers instead of name, and auditioned behind a curtain,etc.
Despite all this the vast majority of successful applicants were still turning out to be white, and most of those male. After a few years of this the DS junked the entire idea of "fair auditions" and openly began/continues maintaining its orchestra via Affirmative Action.
With the predictable results.