Kansas City Symphony clarinet audition

Audition information
Position
Associate principal clarinet
Application deadline
December 22, 2017
Audition date
January 29–30, 2018
Payment
$73,412 per year
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(Posted on October 16, 2017; last updated about 7 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Mozart—Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622
  • Mvt. I: exposition
First clarinet excerpts
Bartók—The Miraculous Mandarin Suite
  • 22–25
Beethoven—Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral,” Op. 68
  • Mvt. II: 68–77
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 36–46
  • Mvt. II: 1–22
Kodály—Dances of Galánta
  • 31–65
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”
  • Mvt. II: 8–103
  • Mvt. II: 3 before F to 3 after G
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: beginning–B
Ravel—Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
  • 1 after 155 to 3 after 157
  • 3 after 212 to the end
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 9, Op. 70
  • Mvt. II: 1–32
  • Mvt. III: 1–17
Sibelius—Symphony No. 1, Op. 39
  • Mvt. I: 1–32
  • Mvt. III: 6 after E to 4 before H
Stravinsky—Firebird Suite (1919)
  • Dance of the Firebird: 9 to 5 after 18
Second clarinet excerpts
Mendelssohn—The Hebrides
  • 25 after F to 41 after F
Ravel—Rapsodie Espagnole
  • Mvt. I: 6–7
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I: 1–37
E♭ clarinet excerpts
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. V: 63 to 5 after 64
Ravel—Boléro
  • 3 after 3 to 4
Ravel—Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
  • 160 to 3 after 160
  • 200 to 2 before 204
Strauss—Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • 1 after 30 to 32
  • 40 to 9 after 40
Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring
  • Part I: 2 after 56 to 57
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