Phoenix Symphony bassoon audition

Audition information
Position
Principal bassoon
Application deadline
May 13, 2018
Audition date
May 28, 2018
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(Posted on April 6, 2018; last updated about 7 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Mozart—Bassoon Concerto, K. 191
  • Mvt. I (no cadenza)
  • Mvt. II (no cadenza)
First bassoon orchestral repertoire
Beethoven—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt II: 59–72
  • Mvt. IV: 184–190
  • Mvt. IV: 298–302
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Variation V
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. II: 82–115
  • Mvt. III: 110–end
  • Mvt. IV: 1–36
  • Mvt. IV: 233–267
Mozart—The Marriage of Figaro
  • Overture: 101–123
  • Overture: 139–171
Ravel—Alborada del Grazioso
  • 9–12
Ravel—Boléro
  • 2–3
  • 4 to 10 after 4
Ravel—Piano Concerto in G
  • Mvt. I: 9–10
  • Mvt. III: 5 after 14 to 16, both parts
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. II: 5–A
  • Mvt. II: 1 after L to M
Saint-Saëns—Symphony No. 3, “Organ”
  • Mvt. I: 6 before E to E
  • Mvt. II: 5 after A to 14 after A
  • Mvt. II: 10 before D to 4 after F
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 9, Op. 70
  • Mvt. IV: beginning to A in Mvt. V
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 10
  • Mvt. I: 29 to 2 after 32
  • Mvt. III: 111 to 3 after 113
  • Mvt. IV: 1 before 192 to 2 before 196
Stravinsky—Octet
  • 1–4
  • 51–55
  • 57–61
Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring
  • 1 to 6 after 3
  • 12 to 4 after 12
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 274–end
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. I: 1–12
  • Mvt. IV: 2–36
Possible sight-reading
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