Seattle Symphony Orchestra trumpet audition


Audition information

Position
Second trumpet
Application deadline
April 9, 2017
Audition date
May 18–21, 2017
Weeks in season
47
Payment
$98,100 per year
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(Posted on March 28, 2017; last updated almost 7 years ago)


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Audition Repertoire
One of the following solos
HaydnTrumpet Concerto in E♭ Major
  • Mvt. I: exposition
HummelTrumpet Concerto
  • Mvt. I: exposition
First trumpet orchestral excerpts
BachChristmas Oratorio
  • No. 64: 1–12
BeethovenLeonore Overture No. 3
  • Offstage call
BizetCarmen
  • Prelude
MahlerSymphony No. 5
  • Opening
MussorgskyPictures at an Exhibition
  • Promenade
RespighiPines of Rome
  • Off-stage solo
StraussEin Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 6566
  • 8183
StravinskyPetrushka (1947 version)
  • Ballerina’s Dance and Waltz
WagnerTannhäuser
  • Overture
Second trumpet orchestral excerpts
BartókConcerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. II
  • Mvt. V: 201–254
  • Mvt. V: 549–572
BartókThe Miraculous Mandarin Suite
  • 3 before 67 to 71
BrahmsSymphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 282–298
  • Mvt. I: 513–end
  • Mvt. IV: 397–end
DvořákSymphony No. 8
  • Mvt. I: 219–237
  • Mvt. II: 7 before E to F
  • Mvt. IV: 1–18
MahlerSymphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 17 to 12 after 17
Rimsky-KorsakovScheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. II: 4 before K to L
  • Mvt. IV
SchumannSymphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 1–13
ShostakovichSymphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 1820
Third trumpet orchestral excerpts
BrucknerSymphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV: 221–237
BrucknerSymphony No. 7
  • Mvt. I: 139–148
  • Mvt. I: 234–247
ShostakovichSymphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 27 to 1 after 32
StraussTill Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • 3538
WagnerGötterdämmerung
  • Act II, Scene 1: 1 to 8 after 1
Fourth trumpet orchestral excerpts
MahlerSymphony No. 3
  • Mvt. VI: 1 before 27 to 28
Possible sight-reading
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