Detroit Symphony Orchestra flute audition

Audition information
Position
Second flute
Application deadline
October 16, 2015
Audition date
November 30 through December 2, 2015
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(Posted on August 4, 2015; last updated over 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo repertoire
Bach—Partita in A minor for flute
  • Corrente
  • Sarabande
Mozart—Flute Concerto No. 1 in G, K. 313
  • Mvt. I without cadenza
Vivaldi—Piccolo Concerto in C Major, RV 443
  • Mvt. II
First flute orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Leonore Overture No. 3
  • 1–36
  • 328–360
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV: 89–105
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 12 before P to the end
Prokofiev—Peter and the Wolf
  • 2–4
Second flute orchestral excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. II: 60–86
  • Mvt. II: 198–227
Britten—Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes
  • Mvt. I, “Dawn”: 1–44
Debussy—Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)
  • 4 before 3 to 3
  • 10 to 2 before 11
Dvořák—Symphony No. 9, “New World”
  • Mvt. I: 197–100
  • Mvt. I: 269–277
  • Mvt. I: 316–324
  • Mvt. I: 374–381
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
  • Mvt. II: 11–35
  • Mvt. IV: 1–34
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 1, “Classical”, Op. 25
  • Mvt. II
  • Mvt. IV
Ravel—Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
  • 155–156
  • 179–188
  • 214–end (with piccolo)
Ravel—Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Mvt. I, “Pavane de la Belle au bois dormat”
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. III: 80–81
  • Mvt. III: 85–87
Piccolo orchestral excerpts
Berlioz—The Damnation of Faust
  • Menuet des Follets, second piccolo: “presto” to 14 after 103
  • Menuet des Follets, second piccolo: 1–95
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. IV: 2 after 118 to 119
Ensemble round (second flute)
Bach—Magnificat, BWV 243
  • “Esturientes implevit bonis”
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: 21–31
  • Mvt. IV: 98–137
Smetana—The Moldau
  • 1–A
Tchaikovsky—The Nutcracker
  • Dance of the Reed Flutes
Possible sight-reading
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