Grant Park Symphony Orchestra trumpet audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant principal trumpet
Application deadline
March 15, 2017
Audition date
April 3–5, 2017
Payment
$1,496.38 per week
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(Posted on January 5, 2017; last updated over 7 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following solos
Haydn—Trumpet Concerto in E♭ Major
  • Mvt. I
Hummel—Trumpet Concerto
  • Mvt. I
AND this concerto movement
Haydn—Trumpet Concerto in E♭ Major
  • Mvt. II
First trumpet excerpts
Bach—Christmas Oratorio
  • No. 64: opening
Beethoven—Leonore Overture No. 3
  • Offstage call
Bizet—Carmen
  • Prelude
Brahms—Academic Festival Overture
  • Chorale
Copland—Billy the Kid
  • 31 to 6 after 32
Debussy—Three Nocturnes
  • Fêtes
Donizetti—Don Pasquale
  • Act II prelude
Gershwin—An American in Paris
  • 4 before 46 to 47
  • 1 before 57 to 58
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Promenade
  • Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle
Ravel—Piano Concerto in G
  • Mvt. I
Respighi—Pines of Rome
  • Mvt. I
  • Off-stage solo
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. IV: 1 before C to D
  • Mvt. IV: Q–R
  • Mvt. IV: T–U
Schumann—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 1–13
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • First E♭ Trumpet
Stravinsky—Petrushka
  • Ballerina’s Dance and Waltz
Wagner—Tannhäuser
  • Overture
Second trumpet excerpts
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
Schumann—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 1–13
Third trumpet excerpts
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 1, Op. 10
  • Mvt. IV: 3 before 28 to 11 after 29
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 27 to 1 after 32
Strauss—Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
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