Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra bass audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant principal bass
Application deadline
March 11, 2018
Audition date
March 25, 2017
Weeks in season
40
Payment
$56,246.80 per year
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(Posted on March 23, 2017; last updated about 7 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One movement of a Bach suite for cello
The first movement of a standard bass concerto
Excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: 14–127
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: 1–100
  • Mvt. III: 140–218 (23 after B)
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 161–190
Mahler—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 1–2
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
  • Mvt. I: 41–90
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. I: 13–48
  • Mvt. IV: 134–181
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Mvt. VI, “Samuel Goldenburg and Schmuÿle”: 1–9
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 22 to 5 after 26
  • Mvt. II: 1–13
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 9 to 6 after 12
  • 40–41
Verdi—Otello
  • Act IV: Soli
Orchestral solos
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation XI
Haydn—Symphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
  • Mvt. IV
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III
Prokofiev—Lieutenant Kijé
  • 15–16
Possible sight-reading
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