New York Philharmonic clarinet audition

Audition information
Position
Bass clarinet
Application deadline
December 13, 2015
Audition date
January 4–12, 2016
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(Posted on August 4, 2015; last updated over 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Saint-Saëns—The Swan
  • Cello solo, played on bass clarinet
Orchestral repertoire
Dukas—The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
  • 22–25
  • 12 before 50 to 53
Grofé—Grand Canyon Suite
  • Mvt. III: first solo
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III: 7 after 3 to 6 before 5
Mahler—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. I: 19 to 6 before 25
Ravel—Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 7, Op. 60
  • Mvt. I: 1 to 3 before 5
  • Mvt. II: 2 after 97 to 100
Shostakovich—Violin Concerto No. 1
  • Mvt. II: 23 to 6 before 27
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • 14–19
  • 23 to 7 after 23
  • 25–30
  • 46 to 4 after 47
  • Variation 8
  • 72–74
Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring (1947 version)
  • 11–12
  • 48–49
  • 1 before 141 to 142
Stravinsky—Symphony in Three Movements
  • Mvt. III: 157–159
Tchaikovsky—The Nutcracker
  • No. 4, “Scène dansante”: 33 to 9 after 33
  • No. 14, “Pas de deux”: solo
Tchaikovsky—Manfred Symphony, Op. 58
  • K to 8 after K
Wagner—Götterdämmerung: Siegfried’s Rheinfahrt
  • 5 before 15 to 5 after 15
  • 15 after 30 for 7 measures
Wagner—Tristan and Isolde
  • Act II, Scene 3: “Mässig langsam” to 10 after Ii
  • Act II, Scene 3: second “Wieder langsam” for 6 measures
  • Act II, Scene 3: “Wieder bewegter” to 11 after Kk
First clarinet parts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral,” Op. 68
  • Mvt. I: solo at end
  • Mvt. II
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: first solo
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo
Second clarinet parts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. II
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo
Ravel—Rapsodie Espagnole
  • Cadenza
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 10
  • Mvt. I: duet at end
Possible sight-reading
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