Houston Symphony Orchestra clarinet audition

Audition information
Position
Substitute clarinet
Application deadline
October 10, 2015
Audition date
October 17, 2015
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(Posted on October 5, 2015; last updated over 9 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Soprano clarinet
Beethoven—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: F–end
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: B to 3 after C
  • Mvt. II: opening
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 1–48
Mozart—Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622
  • Mvt. I: exposition
  • Mvt. II: opening to end of cadenza
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 9, Op. 70
  • Mvt. II: solos
  • Mvt. III: solos
Stravinsky—The Firebird (1919 version)
  • Variation
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I: opening solo
E♭ clarinet
Ravel—Boléro
  • Solo
Bass clarinet
Grofé—Grand Canyon Suite
  • Mvt. III: 3 after 2 to 3
  • Mvt. III: 8 before 13 to 4 after 13
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • 14 to 5 after 16
  • 72–74
Wagner—Götterdämmerung: Siegfried’s Rheinfahrt
  • 28 after 14 to 1 after 16
Possible sight-reading
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