Toronto Symphony Orchestra bass audition

Audition information
Position
Associate principal bass
Application deadline
March 7, 2017
Audition date
April 7, 2016
Weeks in season
43
Payment
$85,126.24 per year
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(Posted on March 15, 2016; last updated about 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following solos
Bottesini—Bass Concerto No. 2
  • Mvt. I
Koussevitzky—Bass Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Incidental solos
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation XI: solo
Haydn—Symphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
  • Variation 7
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III: 3–10
Prokofiev—Lieutenant Kijé Suite
  • 15–16
Stravinsky—Pulcinella
  • Solo sections
Verdi—Otello
  • Act IV, Scene III solo: U to 8 after X
Orchestral excerpts
Bach—Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067
  • Badinerie
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 114–123
  • Mvt. III: 1–100
  • Mvt. III: 141–218
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: 8–107
  • Mvt. IV: 541–610
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 335–344
  • Mvt. II: 46–61
  • Mvt. IV: 257–274
Britten—The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Variation H
Haydn—Symphony No. 88
  • Mvt. I: 83–102
  • Mvt. I: 164–175
  • Mvt. IV: 98–142
Mahler—Symphony No. 2
  • First page
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
  • Mvt. I: 41–90
  • Mvt. IV: 34–53
Mozart—Symphony No. 40
  • Mvt. I: 114–134
  • Mvt. IV: 49–62
  • Mvt. IV: 229–236
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 9–11
  • 40 to 7 after 40
  • 66–70
Possible sight-reading
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