Virginia Symphony Orchestra horn audition

Audition information
Position
Principal horn
Application deadline
May 9, 2017
Audition date
May 23–24, 2017
Weeks in season
42
Payment
$38,389.83 per year
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(Posted on March 16, 2017; last updated about 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following concertos
Mozart—Horn Concerto No. 2, K. 417
Mozart—Horn Concerto No. 4, K. 495
First horn excerpts
Bach—B minor Mass
  • 1–15
  • 47–55
  • 106–128
Beethoven—Symphony No. 7, Op. 92
  • Mvt. I: 84–102
  • Mvt. I: 430–end
Beethoven—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. III: 44–end
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 2–5
  • Mvt. I: 454–477
  • Mvt. II: A–27
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: 1 before F to 110
Bruckner—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 1–52
  • Mvt. I: 229–261
  • Mvt. III: 1–28
Haydn—Symphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
  • Mvt. II: 12–16
  • Mvt. III: 41–end
  • Mvt. IV: variation 4
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 1 to 3 before 1
  • Mvt. I: 39–41
  • Mvt. I: 46 to 3 after 46
  • Mvt. I: 75–end
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III, Obligato horn part: 1 to 14 before 2
  • Mvt. III, obligato horn part: 8 after 10 to 11
  • Mvt. III, obligato horn part: 21–22
  • Mvt. III, obligato horn part: 6 before 28 to 6 after 30
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Nocturne: first page
Ravel—Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a dead princess)
  • 1 to 4 after A
Ravel—Piano Concerto in G
  • Mvt. I: 5 before 2 to 5 after 3
  • Mvt. I: 25–26
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 17–21
  • Mvt. I: 36 to 5 before 39
  • Mvt. I: 39 to 1 after 41
  • Mvt. IV: solo from 112 to 113
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 1 to 4 before 2
  • 1 before 78 to 79
  • 81–83
  • 107 to 6 before the end
Strauss—Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • beginning–1
  • 4 before 10 to 3 before 11
  • 12 after 28 to 30
  • 37 to 4 before 38
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 8–28
  • Mvt. IV: 24–41
  • Mvt. IV: F–H
Wagner—Götterdämmerung: Siegfried’s Rheinfahrt
  • 6–7
Third horn excerpts
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”
  • Mvt. II: 48–67
  • Mvt. II: 4 before F to 3 before G
Possible sight-reading
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