Grant Park Symphony Orchestra bassoon audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant principal bassoon
Application deadline
March 9, 2018
Audition date
March 26–28, 2018
Weeks in season
10
Payment
$1,533.79 per week
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(Posted on December 19, 2017; last updated about 7 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Mozart—Bassoon Concerto, K. 191
  • Mvt. I (no cadenza)
First bassoon orchestral excerpts
Mozart—The Marriage of Figaro
  • Overture
Ravel—Boléro
  • Solo
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 10
  • Mvt. IV: 192–194
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II
Second bassoon orchestral excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. II
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. IV: 2 before 52 to 53
  • Mvt. V: 63 to 4 after 64
Brahms—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. II
Ravel—Piano Concerto in G
  • Mvt. III: sixteenth-note passage, first and second bassoon parts combined
Wagner—Tannhäuser
  • Overture
Sight-reading
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