Virginia Symphony Orchestra trumpet audition

Audition information
Position
Second trumpet
Application deadline
June 25, 2013
Audition date
July 9–10, 2013
Weeks in season
42
Payment
$29,066 per year
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(Posted on April 17, 2013; last updated over 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Haydn—Trumpet Concerto in E♭ Major
  • Mvt. I
Excerpts (first trumpet parts)
Beethoven—Leonore Overture No. 3
  • Offstage call
Bizet—Carmen Suite No. 1
  • Prelude to Act 1
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I: opening
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Promenade
Respighi—Pines of Rome
  • Mvt. II: offstage
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 7 after 49 to 55, first E♭ trumpet
Stravinsky—Petrushka
  • Danse de la ballerine (no waltz)
Wagner—Tannhäuser
  • Overture: pickup to M to the end
Excerpts (second trumpet parts)
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. I: 328–396
  • Mvt. II: 90–147
  • Mvt. V: 201–255
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. IV: beginning to 3 before A
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. IV: 11 after P to the end
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. II: 9 before K to L
  • Mvt. IV: 8 after C to F
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • 3 to 4 before 4
Excerpts (third trumpet parts)
Strauss—An Alpine Symphony
  • Pickup to 83 to 84
Strauss—Symphonia Domestica, Op. 53
  • 89–90
Strauss—Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • 3 after 35 to 4 before 38
Possible sight-reading
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