Houston Symphony Orchestra clarinet audition

Audition information
Position
Principal clarinet
Application deadline
September 3, 2013
Audition date
October 13–16, 2013
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(Posted on August 26, 2013; last updated over 11 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo Repertoire
Mozart—Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. III: 48–78
Beethoven—Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral,” Op. 68
  • Mvt. II: 1 before D to E
  • Mvt. I: 2 before K to 17 after K
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. III: 3 after 43 to 44
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 21–47
  • Mvt. II: 1–23
Mahler—Symphony No. 7
  • Mvt. II: 1 before 69 to 72
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: beginning to 4 before F
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”
  • Mvt. II: beginning to 24 after A
  • Mvt. II: 18 after B to 15 after C
  • Mvt. II: 3 before F to 4 after G
Puccini—Tosca
  • Act III: 11–12
Rachmaninoff—Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27
  • Mvt. III: 1–47
Ravel—Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
  • 155 to 3 after 157
  • 2 before 211 to 216
Rimsky-Korsakov—Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34
  • Mvt. I: A–B
  • Mvt. I: C–end
  • Mvt. III: 10 after K to the end
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. III: D to 4 after F
Schubert—Symphony No. 8, D. 759, “Unfinished”
  • Mvt. II: 66–84
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 1, Op. 10
  • Mvt. I: 1 before 1 to 2
  • Mvt. I: 8–9
  • Mvt. I: 14–15
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 9, Op. 70
  • Mvt. III: 1–39
  • Mvt. II: 1–32
Sibelius—Symphony No. 1, Op. 39
  • Mvt. I: beginning to 10 before A
  • Mvt. III: 3 after F to 12 after G
Stravinsky—The Firebird
  • Variation of the Firebird: 9 before 9 to 5 after 18
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. I: 3 before E to 4 after F
  • Mvt. I: 8 after G to 16 after G
  • Mvt. I: T to 11 after T
Tchaikovsky—Francesca da Rimini
  • 40 after M to 28 before N
Tchaikovsky—Orchestral Suite No. 4
  • Mozartiana: cadenza
Weber—Der Freischütz
  • Overture: 16 after B to D
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