Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra bass audition

Audition information
Position
Section bass
Application deadline
January 7, 2016
Audition date
March 7–15, 2016
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(Posted on January 5, 2016; last updated over 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Bach—Suite No. 3 for cello
  • Bourée I and II
The first movement of a standard concerto of your choice
Orchestral solos
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
Haydn—Symphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
  • Mvt. IV: variation 7 solo
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III
Prokofiev—Lieutenant Kijé
Stravinsky—Pulcinella
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II
  • Mvt. III
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: recitative
  • Mvt. IV: 16 bars of “Allegro assai”
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
Britten—The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Variation H
Dvořák—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. IV: B–C
  • Mvt. IV: O–P
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
  • Mvt. I
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Mvt. VI, “Samuel Goldenburg and Schmuÿle”
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 9–11
  • 15–17
  • 27–29
  • 40–41
  • 49–50
  • 51–66
  • 77–78
Sight-reading
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