Houston Symphony Orchestra trumpet audition

Audition information
Position
Associate principal trumpet
Application deadline
August 17, 2015
Audition date
October 12–14, 2015
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(Posted on July 6, 2015; last updated over 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Haydn—Trumpet Concerto in E♭ Major
First trumpet orchestral excerpts
Bach—Magnificat, BWV 243
  • Beginning–31
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. II: 90–147
  • Mvt. V: 211–254
  • Mvt. V: 549–572
Beethoven—Leonore Overture No. 2, Op. 72a
  • Offstage trumpet
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 29–38
Bernstein—Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
  • 508–521
Brahms—Academic Festival Overture
  • 14 after C to 13 after D
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 282–298
  • Mvt. I: 513–end
  • Mvt. IV: 397–end
Debussy—Three Nocturnes
  • Fêtes
Gershwin—An American in Paris
  • 4 before 46 to 2 before 47
  • Pickup to 57 to 61
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I: 1 to 4 after 1
  • Mvt. I: pickup to 13 to 1 before 14
  • Mvt. III: 13 to 8 after 13
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Promenade: 1–2
  • Promenade, Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle (58–62)
Rachmaninoff—Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
  • Variation 14: 36 to 5 after 38
Ravel—Piano Concerto in G
  • Mvt. I: 2–3
  • Mvt. I: 34–end
Ravel—Rapsodie Espagnole
  • Mvt. IV: 4 to 3 after 4
  • Mvt. IV: 24 to 1 after 26
Respighi—Pines of Rome
  • Mvt. I
  • Off-stage solo trumpet
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. III: G–H
  • Mvt. IV: 1 before C to D
  • Mvt. IV: Q–R
  • Mvt. IV: T–U
Schumann—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: opening
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • First E♭ Trumpet
Stravinsky—Petrushka (1947 version)
  • 1 before 134 to 139
  • 140–143
  • 149–151
  • 265–267
Stravinsky—Firebird Suite
  • Infernal Dance: 1–3
  • Infernal Dance: 8 to 1 after 13
Wagner—Parsifal
  • 1–3
Possible sight-reading
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