Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra cello audition

Audition information
Position
Principal cello
Application deadline
November 18, 2013
Audition date
January 6–7, 2014
Weeks in season
46
Payment
$68,694 per year
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(Posted on October 1, 2013; last updated over 10 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solos
Dvořák—Cello Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Haydn—Cello Concerto in D Major
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Solo excerpts
Brahms—Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Mvt. III
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Theme 1, theme for violoncello and harp
Haydn—Symphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
  • Mvt. II
Puccini—Tosca
  • Act III: 9–11, top line only
Rossini—William Tell Overture
  • 1–48, top line only
Suppé—Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna Overture
Tchaikovsky—Swan Lake Suite, Op. 20a
  • No. 4 Scene: 3 before 6 to the end
Tutti excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–106
Beethoven—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. III: Trio with repeat
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 1–17
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. I: 2 before 9 to 7 after 9, top line only
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I: 1 before 2 to 1 before 3
  • Mvt. V: 1 before 2 to 2 after 3
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: C–D
  • Scherzo: N–O
Smetana—The Bartered Bride
  • Overture: 1 to 5 after A
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • beginning–D
  • 7 before G to H
  • R–U
  • V to 4 after W
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II
Verdi—Requiem
  • Offertorio: 1–28
Wagner—Tannhäuser (Dresden version)
  • Overture: I–K (Beitkopf reprint), or E–F (Fürstner reprint)
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