New York Philharmonic horn audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant principal horn
Application deadline
February 20, 2016
Audition date
March 8–16, 2016
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(Posted on December 2, 2015; last updated about 9 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solos
Mozart—Horn Concerto No. 1
  • Mvt. I
Strauss—Horn Concerto No. 2 in E♭
  • Mvt. II
First horn excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 7, Op. 92
  • Mvt. I: 89–102
Beethoven—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. III: 44–end
Beethoven—Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral,” Op. 68
  • Mvt. III: 132–161
  • Mvt. V: 5–9
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. IV: B to 8 after B
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: M–309
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 454–477
  • Mvt. II: A–B
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: F to 12 before G
Mahler—Symphony No. 7
  • Mvt. II: 72–74
  • Mvt. I: 6–10
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 1 to 3 before 2
  • Mvt. I: 39–40
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 1–3
Mahler—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. III: 11 before 4 to 4
Schubert—Symphony No. 9, D. 944, “The Great”
  • Andante: 1–9
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 17 before O to P
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 1 to 4 before 2
  • 107 to 6 before the end
Strauss—Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • beginning–1
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 8–28
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 1 to 6 after A
Third horn excerpts
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 1–5
Fourth horn excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. III: 82–99
Possible sight-reading
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