Virginia Symphony Orchestra horn audition

Audition information
Position
Third/associate principal horn
Application deadline
September 9, 2013
Audition date
September 23–24, 2013
Weeks in season
42
Payment
$29,066 per year
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(Posted on August 26, 2013; last updated over 10 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Mozart—Horn Concerto No. 4, K. 495
  • Mvt. I
First horn excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 7, Op. 92
  • Mvt. I: 86–105
Beethoven—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. III: 44–78
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Nocturne: 1–34
Ravel—Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a dead princess)
  • 1–11
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 8–28
Third horn excerpts
Berlioz—Roméo et Juliette
  • Queen Mab Scherzo: 58 to 15 after 59
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 73–79
  • Mvt. I: 168–183
  • Mvt. III: 177–196
Brahms—Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 189–199
  • Mvt. II: 163–215
Dvořák—Symphony No. 9, “New World”
  • Mvt. III: 117–140
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 25 to 6 after 26
  • Mvt. II
  • Mvt. IV: 4 after 55 to 59
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 1 before 29 to 2 after 31
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”
  • Mvt. II: 48–67
  • Mvt. II: 189–223
  • Mvt. III: 74–95
Saint-Saëns—Symphony No. 3, “Organ”
  • Mvt. I: 239–269
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 17–21
  • Mvt. I: 36–39
Strauss—Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • 13 before 29 to 15 after 29
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 46 to 1 before 49
  • 1 before 78 to 2 before 80
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 1–20
Possible ensemble repertoire, third horn parts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: Trio
Rossini—Semiramide
  • Overture: quartet
Weber—Der Freischütz
  • Overture: quartet
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