Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra bass audition

Audition information
Position
Principal bass
Application deadline
February 27, 2017
Audition date
March 12, 2016
Weeks in season
40
Payment
$61,198.40 per year
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(Posted on March 2, 2016; last updated about 9 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One movement of a Bach suite for cello
The first movement of a standard bass concerto (Bottesini, Dittersdorf, Koussevitsky, Vanhal)
Excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: 1–100
  • Mvt. III: 141–218
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: Recitative
Britten—The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Variation H
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
  • Mvt. I: 41–90
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. IV: 134–181
Schubert—Symphony No. 9, D. 944, “The Great”
  • Mvt. III, scherzo: 105–151
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 3 before 24 to 4 after 26
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 9 to 6 after 12
Orchestral solos
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation XI
Haydn—Symphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
  • Variation 7
Prokofiev—Lieutenant Kijé Suite
  • Mvt. II, romanza: solo only
Verdi—Otello
  • Act IV: solo
Possible sight-reading
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