Houston Symphony Orchestra percussion audition

Audition information
Position
Principal timpani percussion
Application deadline
August 18, 2017
Audition date
October 16 through November 21, 2017
Weeks in season
52
Payment
$1,805 per week
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(Posted on June 7, 2017; last updated over 6 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
A solo of the candidate’s choice
Orchestral excerpts
Barber—Medea’s Dance of Vengeance
  • 28–32
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. IV
  • Mvt. V
Bartók—Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
  • Mvt. II: 301–338
  • Mvt. IV: 26–44
Beethoven—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Beethoven—Symphony No. 1
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: C–end
  • Mvt. IV: 1–22
Beethoven—Symphony No. 8
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. IV
Britten—Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes
  • Mvt. IV, “Storm”
Britten—The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Variation M
Copland—Appalachian Spring
  • 65–67
Elgar—Enigma Variations
  • Variation VII, “Troyte”
Hindemith—Symphonic Metamorphosis
  • Turandot
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I: 14–15
  • Mvt. V: 34–end
Mahler—Symphony No. 7
  • Mvt. V
Martin—Concerto for Seven Winds, Timpani, and Strings
  • Mvt. III
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 1, “Classical”, Op. 25
  • Mvt. IV
Schuman—New England Triptych
  • Mvt. I
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 1, Op. 10
  • Mvt. IV: 35–37
Sibelius—Finlandia
Strauss—Burleske
Strauss—Der Rosenkavalier Suite
  • 6 after 62 to the end
Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring
  • Danse Sacrale
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I
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