Boston Symphony Orchestra cello audition

Audition information
Position
Principal cello
Application deadline
January 2, 2017
Audition date
March 20 through May 1, 2017
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(Posted on September 4, 2016; last updated about 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
The prelude and one other movement from a Bach suite
Haydn concerto
Haydn—Cello Concerto in D Major
  • Mvt. I with cadenza
One of the following concertos
Dvořák—Cello Concerto
Schumann—Cello Concerto
Orchestra passages and solos
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 1–C
Brahms—Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Mvt. III: all solos
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II, “Adagio non troppo”
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. I: 2 before 9 to 6 after 9, top part
Haydn—Symphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
  • Mvt. IV: Variation 2 solo
Holst—The Planets
  • Mvt. II (Venus): 10 after 4 solo
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 1 to 15 after E
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. IV
Puccini—Tosca
  • Act III solo
Ravel—Alborada del Grazioso
  • 5 after 29, solo
Saint-Saëns—Carnival of the Animals
  • The Swan
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 1, Op. 10
  • Mvt. IV: solo
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 15
  • Mvt. II: solos
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • Theme
  • Variation 1
  • Variation 5
  • Finale
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 1 to 5 after 5
  • 1 before 46 to 5 after 49
Stravinsky—Firebird Suite (1911)
  • 4 after 81, solo
Tchaikovsky—Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Mvt. II: solo at 42
Tchaikovsky—Swan Lake
  • Solo
Verdi—Requiem
  • Offertorio
Chamber music
Beethoven—Septet in E♭ Major, Op. 20
  • Mvt. V: trio
  • Mvt. VI: 1–32
Beethoven—String Trio in C Minor, Op. 9, No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 1–75
  • Mvt. II: 1–11
Brahms—Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op. 60
  • Mvt. I: 1–70
  • Mvt. II: 1–34
Schubert—Octet in F, D. 803
  • Mvt. I: 1–132
Sight-reading
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