Grand Rapids Symphony trumpet audition

Audition information
Position
Third/utility trumpet
Application deadline
October 1, 2016
Audition date
October 28–29, 2016
Payment
$122.12 per service
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(Posted on September 8, 2016; last updated over 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Haydn—Trumpet Concerto in E♭ Major
  • Mvt. II
First trumpet excerpts
Bach—Magnificat, BWV 243
  • Beginning–31
Beethoven—Leonore Overture No. 3
  • Offstage calls
Bernstein—Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
  • 508–541
  • 685–705
Bizet—Carmen Suite No. 1
  • Prelude: low passage
Gershwin—An American in Paris
  • 4 before 46 to 47
  • 57–59
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I: 1 to 5 after 1
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Promenade
Respighi—Pines of Rome
  • Off-stage solo
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 7 after 49 to the end
Stravinsky—Petrushka (1947 version)
  • Ballerina Solo
  • Waltz
Wagner—Tannhäuser
  • Overture
Second trumpet excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
Mozart—The Marriage of Figaro
  • Act I: No. 9
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. II: 4 before K to L
  • Mvt. IV: 9 before Q to R
Third trumpet excerpts
Brahms—Academic Festival Overture
Britten—Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes
  • Mvt. II, “Sunday Morning”
Rimsky-Korsakov—Suite from the Opera-Ballet Mlada
  • Cortège (Procession of the Nobles)
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 1, Op. 10
  • Mvt. IV: 6 before 30 to 4 after 30
Strauss—Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • 3 after 36 to 4 before 38
Possible sight-reading
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