Grand Rapids Symphony bassoon audition

Audition information
Position
3rd/utility/contra bassoon
Application deadline
August 10, 2017
Audition date
September 21, 2017
Payment
$123.95 per service
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(Posted on July 12, 2017; last updated over 7 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Mozart—Bassoon Concerto, K. 191
  • Mvt. I: exposition
  • Mvt. II: exposition
First bassoon orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 20–30
Mozart—The Marriage of Figaro
  • Overture: 101–123
  • Overture: 139–171
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 274–end
Second bassoon orchestral excerpts
Brahms—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 1–32
Contrabassoon orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. IV: 374–436
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 113–120
  • Mvt. IV: 223–247
Mahler—Symphony No. 9
  • Mvt. II: 588–end
  • Mvt. IV: 28–37
Ravel—Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Mvt. IV, “Les entretiens de la belle et de la bête”
Ravel—Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
  • Beginning to 2 after 2
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. II: 65 to 9 after 68
  • Mvt. III
Third bassoon excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. II: 165–181
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. IV: 49–63
  • Mvt. V: 47–64
Possible sight-reading
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