Oregon Symphony bass audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant principal bass
Application deadline
September 5, 2017
Audition date
October 24–26, 2017
Weeks in season
38
Payment
$59,342.46 per year
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(Posted on June 7, 2017; last updated over 6 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following concerto movements
Bottesini—Bass Concerto No. 2
  • Mvt. I
Koussevitzky—Bass Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Vanhal—Bass Concerto
  • Mvt. I
A dance movement from a Bach cello suite
Orchestral solos
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation XI: solo
Haydn—Symphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
  • Mvt. IV: solo
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III: solo
Prokofiev—Lieutenant Kijé
  • Solo 6 measures at 24
Stravinsky—Pulcinella
  • Mvt. VII: solo
Orchestral excerpts
Bach—Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067
  • Badinerie
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 114–124
  • Mvt. III
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: 1–107
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. IV: 57 to 2 after 58
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. IV
Mahler—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 1–2
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. I: 1–66
  • Mvt. IV
Mozart—Symphony No. 40
  • Mvt. I: 114–138
  • Mvt. I: 191–225
Prokofiev—Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2
  • Mvt. V: 3 after 49 to 51
Schubert—Symphony No. 9, D. 944, “The Great”
  • Mvt. III
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 9–11
  • 40–41
  • 49–50
  • 51–70
Wagner—Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
  • Prelude: J–N
Possible sight-reading
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