North Carolina Symphony oboe audition

Audition information
Position
Associate principal oboe
Application deadline
October 31, 2016
Audition date
February 10–12, 2017
Weeks in season
39
Payment
$59,043 per year
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(Posted on October 4, 2016; last updated about 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo repertoire
Mozart—Oboe Quartet in F major, K. 370
  • 1–63
First oboe excerpts
Bach—Cantata BWV 82, “Ich habe genug”
  • Aria: 8–34
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. II: 8–16
  • Mvt. III: 7–28
Brahms—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 3–32
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. II: 1–9
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”
  • Mvt. II: 83–100
  • Mvt. II: 205–229
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Mvt. V, “The Ballet of Unhatched Chicks in Their Shells”: 1–52
Ravel—Le Tombeau de Couperin
  • Prelude: 1–2
  • Prelude: 5 before 9 to 1 before 9
  • Forlane: 6–8
  • Forlane: 16–17
  • Menuet: 9–10
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. III: pickups to A to the end of 8 after A
Rossini—La Scala di Seta
  • Overture: 6–21
  • Overture: 38–53
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 1, Op. 10
  • Mvt. III: solo
Smetana—The Bartered Bride
  • Overture: 1–8
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 1–36
  • 235–268
Stravinsky—The Song of the Nightingale
  • 4 after 58 to 61
Stravinsky—Pulcinella Suite
  • Serenata
  • Gavotta: variation 1a
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 1–21
Second oboe excerpt
Dvořák—Symphony No. 7
  • Mvt. II: 1–8
English horn excerpts
Berlioz—Roman Carnival Overture
  • 21–37
  • 53–66
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. II: 16–17
  • Mvt. II: 34–35
Debussy—Three Nocturnes
  • No. II, “Fêtes”: 3–8
  • No. II, “Fêtes”: 3 after 3 to 7 before 4
Dvořák—Symphony No. 9, “New World”
  • Mvt. II: 7–19
Falla—Three Dances from “The Three-Cornered Hat”
  • The Miller’s Dance: 1–2
Ravel—Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Mvt. III: 5 after 5 to 5 after 6
  • Mvt. III: 5 before 8 to 8
Ravel—Piano Concerto in G
  • Mvt. II: 6–9
Ravel—Rapsodie Espagnole
  • Mvt. IV, “Feria”
Respighi—Pines of Rome
  • Mvt. IV: 11 after 18 to 20
Rossini—William Tell Overture
  • 176–226
Sibelius—The Swan of Tuonela, Op. 22, No. 2
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 1 after 33 to 35
  • 99–101
Stravinsky—Petrushka (1947 version)
  • 199 to 1 after 201
  • 209–211
Possible sight-reading
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