Virginia Symphony Orchestra bassoon audition

Audition information
Position
Contra bassoon
Application deadline
May 1, 2017
Audition date
May 15, 2017
Weeks in season
42
Payment
$110.34 per service
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(Posted on March 16, 2017; last updated about 7 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Mozart—Bassoon Concerto, K. 191
  • Mvt. I: exposition
First bassoon excerpt
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 274–end
Second bassoon excerpts
Brahms—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 1–32
Mozart—The Marriage of Figaro
  • Overture: 139–171
Third bassoon excerpt
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. II: 165–181
Fourth bassoon excerpts
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. IV: 25–62
  • Mvt. V: 47–64
Contrabassoon excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. IV: 401–423
  • Mvt. IV: 445–464
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 161–197
  • Mvt. IV: 94–114
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. IV: 223–247
Ravel—Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Mvt IV
Ravel—Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
  • 2 to 2 after 1
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt II: 65–69
Possible sight-reading
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