Detroit Symphony Orchestra bass audition

Audition information
Position
Section bass
Application deadline
September 8, 2017
Audition date
October 16–18, 2017
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(Posted on July 10, 2017; last updated over 7 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
The first movement of a standard bass concerto
One movement from a Bach cello suite
Orchestral repertoire
Bach—Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067
  • Badinerie
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. I: 1–76
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: 1–100
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: 8–115
  • Mvt. IV: 431–525
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. I: second ending to 5 after 9
  • Mvt. II: 1–22
  • Mvt. V: 3 after 70 to 9 after 74
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 54–66
  • Mvt. I: 118–156
  • Mvt. II: 47–55
  • Mvt. II: 82–86
  • Mvt. IV: 244–279
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
  • Mvt. I: 41–90
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. I: 13–48
  • Mvt. I: 59–66
  • Mvt. IV: 134–197
Schubert—Symphony No. 9, D. 944, “The Great”
  • Mvt. III: B to 7 after C
Sibelius—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: 2–28
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 9 to 6 after 12
  • 40 to 2 before 41
  • 77 to 1 before 78
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 1 to 7 before D
  • F to 4 before G
  • 13 after P to S
Orchestral solos
Haydn—Symphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
  • Mvt. IV: variation 7
Possible sight-reading
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