Nashville Symphony Orchestra clarinet audition

Audition information
Position
Second clarinet
Application deadline
February 6, 2017
Audition date
May 8–9, 2017
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(Posted on December 5, 2016; last updated over 7 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Mozart—Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622
  • Mvt. I: 57–127
First clarinet excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 81–89
  • Mvt. IV: 297–302
Beethoven—Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral,” Op. 68
  • Mvt. I: 474–492
  • Mvt. II: 68–77
  • Mvt. III: 122–133
Beethoven—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. III: 45–78, with repeat
Bernstein—Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
  • 584–665
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 36–46
  • Mvt. II: 1–22
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 1–48
  • Scherzo: 99–157
Prokofiev—Peter and the Wolf
  • 20–21
Respighi—Pines of Rome
  • Mvt. III: 1 before 13 to 5 before 14
  • Mvt. III: 4 before 15 to 1 after 15
Rimsky-Korsakov—Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34
  • Mvt. I: A–B
  • Mvt. I: C to 12 before the end
  • Mvt. III: 11 after K to the end
Schubert—Symphony No. 8, D. 759, “Unfinished”
  • Mvt. II: 66–83
Stravinsky—Firebird Suite (1919)
  • Dance of the Firebird: 9 to 5 after 18
Second clarinet excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. I: 174–187
  • Mvt. II: 45–57
  • Mvt. II: 188–211
Mendelssohn—The Hebrides
  • 206–217
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 10
  • Mvt. I: 56–59
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I: 1–37
E♭ clarinet excerpts
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. V: 40–65
Bernstein—On the Town
  • Mvt. III: 1–15
Ravel—Boléro
  • 3 after 3 to 4
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. II: 49 to 1 after 54
Strauss—Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • 1 after 30 to 32
  • 40 to 9 after 40
Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring (Nieweg edition)
  • 1–12
  • 48–49
  • 2 after 56 to 57
Possible sight-reading
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