Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra bass audition

Audition information
Position
Section bass
Application deadline
January 9, 2017
Audition date
February 20–22, 2017
Weeks in season
40
Payment
$1,203 per week
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(Posted on November 5, 2016; last updated about 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following concertos
Bottesini—Bass Concerto No. 2
  • Mvt. I
Koussevitzky—Bass Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Vanhal—Bass Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Any movement of a Bach cello suite
Excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: C–124
  • Mvt. III: 1 to 5 after A
  • Mvt. III: 140–218 (23 after B)
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: Recitatives
  • Mvt. IV: 92–A
  • Mvt. IV: 2 before K to 18 before M
  • Mvt. IV: 2 before M to 1 before 3/2
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: E–F
  • Mvt. II: 2 before C to 2 before D
  • Mvt. IV: 1–37
  • Mvt. IV: 8 before L to 2 before M
Mahler—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 2 to 2 before 2
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: 13–21
  • Mvt. I: 40–97
  • Mvt. IV: 105–138
Mozart—Symphony No. 40
  • Mvt. I: 115 to 5 after C
  • Mvt. I: 191 to 1 after E
  • Mvt. IV: 49 to 1 before A
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 22 to 4 after 26
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • A to 2 before C
  • F to 3 before G
  • 13 after W to 1 after Y
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: P to 1 after Q
Verdi—Otello
  • Act IV: Soli
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