North Carolina Symphony clarinet audition

Audition information
Position
Principal clarinet
Application deadline
December 30, 2016
Audition date
April 20–22, 2017
Weeks in season
39
Payment
$66,541 per year
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(Posted on December 5, 2016; last updated almost 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solos
Mozart—Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Nielsen—Clarinet Concerto
  • Beginning through the first cadenza ending with the fermata on measure 143
Orchestral excerpts
Bartók—The Miraculous Mandarin
  • 13–16
  • 22–25
Beethoven—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 10–17
  • Mvt. II: 81–89
  • Mvt. IV: 297–302
Beethoven—Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral,” Op. 68
  • Mvt. I: 2 before K to 17 after K
  • Mvt. II: 1 before D to 9 after D
Beethoven—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. III: 48–end
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 2 before B to 3 after C
Gershwin—Rhapsody in Blue
  • Beginning–2
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation 4: 16–29
Kodály—Dances of Galánta
  • 31–65
  • 571–579
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 1–B
  • Scherzo: 7 after D to 6 before G
Prokofiev—Peter and the Wolf
  • 20 to 1 before 21
Rachmaninoff—Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27
  • Mvt. III: 1 to 1 before 47
Ravel—Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
  • 1 after 155 to 3 after 158
  • 212–end
Respighi—Pines of Rome
  • Mvt. III: 1 before 13 to 15
  • Mvt. III: pickup to 5 after 17 to 11 after 17
Rimsky-Korsakov—Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34
  • Mvt. I: A to 1 after B
  • Mvt. I: C to 11 before the end
  • Mvt. III: 11 after K to the end
  • Mvt. IV: cadenza
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. II: F–G
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 1, Op. 10
  • Mvt. II: 1 to 9 after 1
  • Mvt. IV: 6 to 3 after 8
  • Mvt. IV: 24–33
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 9, Op. 70
  • Mvt. II: 1–32
  • Mvt. III: 1–33
Sibelius—Symphony No. 1, Op. 39
  • Mvt. I: 1–29
Smetana—The Bartered Bride
  • Overture: 1–8
  • Overture: 95–108
  • Overture: 221–228
  • Overture: 243–247
Stravinsky—Firebird Suite (1919)
  • Variation de l’oiseau de feu: 9–end
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. I: 54–67
  • Mvt. I: 153–160
Possible sight-reading
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