Atlanta Symphony Orchestra cello audition

Audition information
Position
Section cello
Application deadline
September 2, 2016
Audition date
November 6–9, 2016
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(Posted on August 1, 2016; last updated about 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One movement from a Bach suite
One of the following concertos
Dvořák—Cello Concerto
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Haydn—Cello Concerto in C Major
  • Mvt. I: exposition and development
Haydn—Cello Concerto in D Major
  • Mvt. I: exposition and development
Orchestral repertoire
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II
  • Mvt. III
Beethoven—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. III: 45–end
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: 1 to 2 before A
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. I: 2 before 9 to 6 after 9
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I: 1 before 2 to 1 before 3
  • Mvt. I: 4–6
  • Mvt. II: 12 after 11 to 12
  • Mvt. V: 1 before 2 to 6 after 4
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I: 9–10
  • Mvt. I: 2 before 13 to 14
  • Mvt. II: 35–36
  • Mvt. III: 60 to 2 after 61
  • Mvt. III: 7 before 75 to 77
  • Mvt. IV: 79–80
Smetana—The Bartered Bride
  • Overture: 1–A
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 1 to 7 before 14
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 9 bars of first Moderato
  • Mvt. I: 8 before F to F
  • Mvt. I: H–O
  • Mvt. II: 21 to 16 after A
  • Mvt. II: 53 from the end to 30 from the end
Possible sight-reading
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