Grant Park Symphony Orchestra horn audition

Audition information
Position
Third horn
Application deadline
February 15, 2017
Audition date
March 6–15, 2017
Payment
$1,496.38 per week
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(Posted on January 5, 2017; last updated about 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following solos
Mozart—Horn Concerto No. 2, K. 417
  • Mvt. I
Mozart—Horn Concerto No. 4, K. 495
  • Mvt. I
Orchestral excerpts
Berlioz—Roméo et Juliette
  • Queen Mab Scherzo: 58 to 15 after 59
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 73–79
  • Mvt. II: 108–118
Brahms—Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 199–215
Brahms—Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 189–199
  • Mvt. II: 159–215
Dvořák—Symphony No. 9, “New World”
  • Mvt. I: 16–27
  • Mvt. III: 117–150
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 1 before 29 to 6 before 33
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”
  • Mvt. II: 189–223
  • Mvt. III: 74–95
Saint-Saëns—Symphony No. 3, “Organ”
  • Mvt. I: 239–269
  • Mvt. I: 366–377
Schumann—Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”
  • Mvt. II: 8 after E to 4 after F
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 17 before O to 7 after O
  • 4 before Y to 1 after Z
Strauss—Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • 13 before 29 to 16 after 31
Wagner—Götterdämmerung: Siegfried’s Rheinfahrt
  • 7 to 1 after 8
Possible ensemble pieces
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III, third horn: trio
Beethoven—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. III, first and second horn
Rossini—Semiramide
  • Overture, third horn: quartet
Rossini—William Tell Overture
  • Third horn
Weber—Der Freischütz
  • Overture, third horn: quartet
Sight-reading
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