Audition information

Position
Principal trumpet
Application deadline
April 15, 2016
Audition date
May 15–16, 2016
Payment
$1,359.04 per week
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(Posted on March 5, 2016; last updated about 8 years ago)


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Audition Repertoire
Solo of choice (maximum two minutes in duration)
First trumpet orchestral parts
BachB minor Mass
  • Credo
BartókConcerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. I: 39–50
  • Mvt. I: 334–396
  • Mvt. II: 90–147
  • Mvt. V: 211–245
  • Mvt. V: 550–573
BeethovenLeonore Overture No. 2, Op. 72a
  • Offstage trumpet
BeethovenLeonore Overture No. 3
  • Offstage fanfare
BernsteinSymphonic Dances from West Side Story
BrahmsAcademic Festival Overture
  • 14 after C to 10 after D
CoplandAn Outdoor Overture
  • 16–34
DebussyThree Nocturnes
  • Fêtes: 9 after 10 to 11
GershwinPiano Concerto in F
  • Mvt. II: beginning–1
MahlerSymphony No. 3
  • Posthorn solo
MahlerSymphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I
MussorgskyPictures at an Exhibition
  • Opening promenade
  • Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle
RavelPiano Concerto in G
  • Mvt. I: 23
  • Mvt. I: 34–end
RespighiPines of Rome
  • Mvt. I: offstage solo
Rimsky-KorsakovScheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. IV: 1 before C to D
  • Mvt. IV: 6 before Q to R
  • Mvt. IV: TU
StraussDon Juan, Op. 20
  • 5 after F to 5 before G
StraussEin Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • First E♭ Trumpet: 7 before 50 to 55
  • First E♭ Trumpet: 81 to 4 after 83
StravinskyL’historie du soldat
  • March
StravinskyPetrushka (1947 version)
  • 1 before 134 to 139
  • 140 to 6 after 142
WagnerParsifal
  • Prelude: beginning to 5 before 3
WagnerTannhäuser
  • Overture: pickup to M to the end
Section playing (final round only)
BartókConcerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. I: 39–50
  • Mvt. I: 334–396
  • Mvt. II: 90–147
  • Mvt. V: 211–245
  • Mvt. V: 550–573
DvořákSymphony No. 8
  • Mvt. I: 16 before L to 3 after L
  • Mvt. II: 7 before E to F
  • Mvt. II: N–end
  • Mvt. IV: beginning
MahlerSymphony No. 7
  • 4 before 224 to 4 after 228
SchumannSymphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: opening
Possible sight-reading
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