Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra cello audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant principal cello
Application deadline
January 5, 2017
Audition date
February 26–27, 2017
Weeks in season
35
Payment
$1,250.40 per week
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(Posted on November 8, 2016; last updated almost 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Haydn—Cello Concerto in D Major
  • Mvt. I without cadenza
Two contrasting movements from any unaccompanied J. S. Bach cello suite
Orchestral solos
Beethoven—The Creatures of Prometheus
  • Act II, No. 5: cadenza to 8 after A
Rossini—William Tell Overture
  • 1–48, top line only
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • Variation 2
Strauss—Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
  • No. 6, Courante
  • No. 9, Das Diner: 84 to 2 before 89
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–10
  • Mvt. II: 49–60
  • Mvt. II: 98–106
  • Mvt. III: 141–218
Beethoven—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. III: 45–78
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: 1–39
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. V: 2 to 3 before 3
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: N–O
Mozart—Symphony No. 40
  • Mvt. I: 115–138
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 1 to 7 after 13
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 3 after B to 8 after C
  • Mvt. I: 4 before M to 3 after N
Verdi—Requiem
  • Offertorio: 1–29
Possible sight-reading
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