Audition information

Position
Principal tuba
Application deadline
March 13, 2018
Audition date
April 19–23, 2017
Weeks in season
45
Payment
$106,929 per year
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(Posted on March 28, 2017; last updated about 7 years ago)


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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Vaughan WilliamsTuba Concerto
  • Mvt. II
  • Mvt. III
Orchestral excerpts
BerliozThe Damnation of Faust
  • Hungarian March: 4 to 2 after 5
BerliozSymphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. IV: 54 to 6 after 57
  • Mvt. IV: 8 before 85 to the end
BrucknerSymphony No. 7
  • Mvt. II: 185–193
  • Mvt. IV: 191–212
GershwinAn American in Paris
  • 1517
  • 4 after 67 to 68
HindemithSymphonic Metamorphosis
  • Mvt. II
MahlerSymphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III: solo
MahlerSymphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I: 9 after 11 to 12
  • Mvt. II: solo after 33
  • Mvt. III: 13 before 16 to 17
  • Mvt. III: 2526
ProkofievSymphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I: 3 to 3 after 4
RespighiFountains of Rome
  • La fontana di Trevi al meriggio: 1114
RevueltasSensemayá
  • 211
StraussAlso Sprach Zarathustra
  • 6 to 5 after 6
  • 6 before 49 to 51
StraussAn Alpine Symphony
  • 12
  • 2728
StraussEin Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 89
  • 62 to 2 after 65
StravinskyPetrushka (1911 version)
  • Bear solo
VerdiNabucco
  • Overture: 1–7
WagnerDas Rheingold
  • Scene II, Moderato: first 20 bars
  • Scene III, “Lento e sostenuto” for 15 bars
WagnerDie Meistersinger von Nürnberg
  • Prelude
WagnerDie Walküre
  • Ride of the Valkyries
WagnerLohengrin
  • Prelude to Act III
Sight-reading
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