Houston Symphony Orchestra bassoon audition

Audition information
Position
Bassoon
Application deadline
July 6, 2015
Audition date
August 31 through September 21, 2015
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(Posted on June 9, 2015; last updated almost 10 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo repertoire
Mozart—Bassoon Concerto, K. 191
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Vivaldi—Bassoon Concerto in E Minor
  • Mvt. II
Contrabassoon orchestra excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. IV: 398–427
  • Mvt. IV: 445–464
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: 663–671
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 161–189
  • Mvt. I: 293–321
  • Mvt. I: 333–343
  • Mvt. IV: 94–114
  • Mvt. IV: 168–183
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 113–120
  • Mvt. IV: 231–247
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: 8 after 2 to 17 after 2
Mahler—Symphony No. 9
  • Mvt. II: 9 after 17 to 26 after 18
  • Mvt. IV: 28–37
Mahler—Das Lied von der Erde
  • Mvt VI: 3 after 6 to 2 before 7
Mozart—Serenade No. 10 in B♭, K. 361
  • Mvt. III: 1–17
  • Mvt. V: 56–72
Ravel—Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Mvt. IV, “Les entretiens de la belle et de la bête”
Ravel—Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
  • Mvt. I: 1 to 1 after 3
Ravel—La Valse
  • 36 to 1 after 38
Respighi—Pines of Rome
  • Mvt. II, “Pines Near a Catacomb”: 7 before 13 for 4 measures
Schoenberg—Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9
  • 1 before 28 to 30
  • 2 before 97 to 4 after 98
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. II: 65 to 9 after 68
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 10
  • Mvt. I: 29 to 2 after 32
Strauss—Salome
  • 6 after 151 to 2 after 153
Stravinsky—Petrushka
  • Waltz, 9 after 72 to 74
First bassoon orchestra excerpts
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 274–end
Second bassoon orchestra excerpts
Brahms—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 1–32
Mozart—The Marriage of Figaro
  • Overture: 139–171
Third bassoon orchestra excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. II: 165–181
Fourth bassoon orchestra excerpts
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. IV: 11 after 50 to 1 after 53
  • Mvt. V: 8 after 63 to 4 after 64
Possible sight-reading
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