Grant Park Symphony Orchestra bass audition

Audition information
Position
Principal bass
Application deadline
February 17, 2016
Audition date
March 7–16, 2016
Payment
$1,381.28 per week
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(Posted on December 2, 2015; last updated over 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One movement from a Bach cello suite
The first movement of a concerto
Orchestral excerpts
Bach—Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067
  • Badinerie
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. IV: 1–37
  • Mvt. IV: 224–279
Britten—The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Variation H
Mahler—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 1–2
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. I: 1–B
  • Mvt. IV
Mozart—Symphony No. 40
  • Mvt. I: 115–138
  • Mvt. IV
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 22 to 4 after 26
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 9 to 6 after 12
  • 15 to 2 after 17
  • 40–41
  • 51–63
  • 77–78
Orchestral solos
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation XI
Haydn—Symphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
  • Mvt. IV: variation 7 solo
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III: solo
Prokofiev—Lieutenant Kijé
  • Mvt. II: 1–16
Stravinsky—Pulcinella Suite
  • Mvt. VII
Sight-reading
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