Virginia Symphony Orchestra oboe audition

Audition information
Position
Per-service third oboe
Application deadline
May 6, 2016
Audition date
May 20–21, 2016
Payment
$110.34 per service
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(Posted on April 10, 2016; last updated about 9 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following solos
Mozart—Oboe Concerto in C Major, K. 314
  • Mvt. I: Exposition
Strauss—Oboe Concerto
  • First two pages
First oboe excerpts
Barber—Symphony No. 1
  • 7 before 34 to 10 after 35
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. II: 7–16
Brahms—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 3–32
Rossini—La Scala di Seta
  • Overture: 2–3
Second oboe excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. II: 25–44
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Theme
Dvořák—Symphony No. 7
  • Mvt. II: 1–8
Dvořák—Cello Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 1–9
  • Mvt. II: 3 after 7 to 2 before 8
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”
  • Mvt. II: pickup to A to 13 after C
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 1, “Classical”, Op. 25
  • Mvt. II: 3 after H to 2 after J
  • Mvt. III: C–D
  • Mvt. IV: D to 5 after F
English horn excerpts
Berlioz—Roman Carnival Overture
  • “Andante sostenuto” to 3 after 1
Falla—The Three-Cornered Hat
  • Cadenza
Rossini—William Tell Overture
  • 3/8 Andante
Tchaikovsky—The Nutcracker
  • Act I, Scene 6: 63–64
  • Act II, Scene 10: 7–8
  • Act I, Scene 5: 1–47
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