Reading Symphony Orchestra oboe audition

Audition information
Position
Second oboe
Application deadline
October 23, 2017
Audition date
November 9, 2017
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(Posted on September 8, 2017; last updated over 7 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Mozart—Oboe Concerto in C Major, K. 314
  • Mvt. I: 1–76
First oboe excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. II
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. II
Ravel—Le Tombeau de Couperin
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. II: 16–17
Rossini—La Scala di Seta
  • Overture
Second oboe excerpts
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Opening
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II
Dvořák—Cello Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 1–10
  • Mvt. II: 58–68
Dvořák—Symphony No. 7
  • Mvt. II: 1–17
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”
  • Mvt. II: 32–67
  • Mvt. II: 88–100
Tchaikovsky—Capriccio Italien
  • “Pochissimo più mosso” for 18 measures
English horn excerpts
Berlioz—Roman Carnival Overture
  • Third bar of “Andante Sostenuto” to 3 after 1
Debussy—Three Nocturnes
  • No. II, “Fêtes”: 3 after 3 to 7 before 4
Dvořák—Symphony No. 9, “New World”
  • Mvt. II
Possible sight-reading
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