Orchestre Symphonique de Québec horn audition

Audition information
Position
Principal horn
Application deadline
September 6, 2013
Audition date
September 15, 2013
Weeks in season
35
Payment
$1,279 per week
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(Posted on June 25, 2013; last updated over 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solos
Mozart—Horn Concerto No. 4, K. 495
  • Mvt. I
Strauss—Horn Concerto No. 1
  • First movement
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 7, Op. 92
  • Mvt. I: 89 to 2 after C
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. II: 1 before E to 1 after F
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: solo at the end (from 454)
  • Mvt. II: A–B
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: solo from F
Bruckner—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: beginning–A
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: beginning–3
  • Mvt. III: 31 after 6 to 7
  • Mvt. III: 8 after 10 to 11
  • Mvt. III: 9 after 13 to 14 after 13
  • Mvt. III: 22 after 15 to 4 after 16
  • Mvt. III: 21–22
  • Mvt. III: 4 after 28 to the end
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Nocturne: 1–34
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Promenade
Ravel—Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a dead princess)
  • Solo at the beginning
Ravel—Piano Concerto in G
  • Mvt. I: 25–26
Rossini—Il Turco in Italia
  • Overture: solo at the beginning
Schumann—Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”
  • Mvt. II: solo from 32 to 48
  • Mvt. II: 105–115
  • Mvt. IV: 1–8
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 3 after 17 to 1 after 21
  • Mvt. I: 36 to 4 after 38
  • Mvt. I: 3 after 39 to 2 after 41
  • Mvt. IV: solo from 112 to 113
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • beginning to 3 after 2
  • 107–end
Strauss—Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • beginning–1
  • 12 after 28 to 35
Stravinsky—Divertimento from “Le Baiser de la fée”
  • Mvt. II, Danses Suisses: 67–69
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: solo
Wagner—Götterdämmerung: Siegfried’s Rheinfahrt
  • 6 to 1 after 7
Sight-reading
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