Vancouver Symphony Orchestra bass audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant principal bass
Application deadline
June 3, 2013
Audition date
June 16, 2013
Weeks in season
40
Payment
$48,600 per year
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(Posted on May 3, 2013; last updated almost 10 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
The first movement of one of the following bass concertos (orchestra tuning)
Bottesini—Bass Concerto No. 2
Koussevitzky—Bass Concerto
Vanhal—Bass Concerto (C or D major)
One of the following Bach movements (at pitch or transposed)
Bach—Suite No. 3 for cello
  • Allemande
  • Courante
  • Bourée
  • Gigue
Orchestral excerpts
Bach—Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067
  • Double
  • Badinerie
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: 14–166 (no repeat)
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: Recitative to 140
  • Mvt. IV: 431–525
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. IV: 1–37
  • Mvt. IV: 244–279
Britten—The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Variation H
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation XI: 65 to 3 after 67
Haydn—Symphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
  • Mvt. IV: variation 7 solo
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III: 3 after 1 to 2 after 2
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
  • Mvt. I: 41–90
  • Mvt. IV: 32–52
Mozart—Symphony No. 40
  • Mvt. I: 114–138
  • Mvt. I: 191–234
  • Mvt. IV: 49–70
  • Mvt. IV: 229–236
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Mvt. VI, “Samuel Goldenburg and Schmuÿle”: 56 to 4 after 57
Prokofiev—Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2
  • Mvt. V: 5 before 50 to 8 after 50
Schubert—Symphony No. 9, D. 944, “The Great”
  • Mvt. III: 1 to the Trio
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 9 to one after 11
  • 40–41
  • 51–70
  • 77–78
Stravinsky—Pulcinella Suite
  • Mvt. VII
Possible sight-reading
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