Audition information

Position
Piano
Application deadline
August 17, 2016
Audition date
August 26–27, 2016
Payment
$5,000 per year
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(Posted on June 15, 2016; last updated almost 8 years ago)


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Audition Repertoire
The exposition of the first movement of a Beethoven sonata
Your choice of a pops or jazz work written for piano solo that would demonstrate knowledge of that style
Piano orchestra excerpts
CoplandHoedown
  • 1 before 3 to 5
CoplandAppalachian Spring (original version for 13 instruments)
  • 810
  • 6263
ShostakovichSymphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 1722
  • Mvt. IV: 2 before 127 to 10 after 130
ShostakovichSymphony No. 1, Op. 10
  • Mvt. II: 2 before 18 to 3 after 22
  • Mvt. IV: 3 after 9 to 15
StravinskyFirebird Suite (1919)
  • Variation of the Firebird
  • Infernal Dance: 35
  • Infernal Dance: 1012
StravinskyPetrushka
  • 3339
  • 4142
  • 4345
Celeste orchestra excerpts
TchaikovskyThe Nutcracker
  • Sugar Plum Fairy: 5–end
Orchestra ensemble excerpts, to be played with concertmaster
RachmaninoffSymphonic Dances, Op. 45
  • Mvt. I: 1417
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