San Francisco Symphony bass audition

Audition information
Position
Associate principal bass
Application deadline
April 18, 2016
Audition date
June 13–27, 2016
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(Posted on March 15, 2016; last updated almost 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
A movement from a Bach cello suite of the candidate’s choice
One of the following solos
Bottesini—Bass Concerto No. 2
  • Mvt. I with cadenza
Vanhal—Bass Concerto in C Major
  • Mvt. I with cadenza
Orchestral solos
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation XI: solo
Haydn—Symphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
  • Mvt. IV: variation 7 solo
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III: solo
Prokofiev—Lieutenant Kijé Suite
  • 15–16
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 15
  • Mvt. II: 77–78
Orchestral repertoire
Bach—Violin Concerto in E
  • Mvt. II
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. I: 22–58
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: 8–140
  • Mvt. IV: 431–596
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. II
  • Mvt. IV
Mahler—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 1–2
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. IV
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. IV
Mozart—Symphony No. 40
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. IV
Schoenberg—Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9
  • 1 before 29 to 34
  • 37–46
  • 1 after 71 to 1 before 74
  • 2 before 97 to 5 after 99
  • 1 before 114 to 2 before 116
Schubert—Symphony No. 9, D. 944, “The Great”
  • Mvt. III
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 11
  • Mvt. I: 16 to 7 after 17
Sibelius—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: 1 to 12 before A
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 9–11
  • 40–41
  • 2 before 61 to 5 after 73
  • 77–78
Stravinsky—Pulcinella
  • Vivo
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