Los Angeles Philharmonic bassoon audition


Audition information

Position
Contra bassoon
Application deadline
May 28, 2018
Audition date
August 13–16, 2018
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(Posted on May 8, 2018; last updated over 5 years ago)


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Audition Repertoire
Solo
MozartBassoon Concerto, K. 191
  • Mvt. I: exposition
First bassoon parts
MozartThe Marriage of Figaro
  • Overture: 139–171
RavelBoléro
  • 3 after 2 to 3
TchaikovskySymphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 274–end
Second bassoon parts
BrahmsViolin Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 1–32
Third bassoon parts
BartókConcerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. II: 165–181
Fourth bassoon parts
BerliozSymphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. IV: 47–63
  • Mvt. V: 47–64
Contrabassoon parts
BeethovenSymphony No. 5
  • Mvt. IV: 28–50
  • Mvt. IV: 72–91
BrahmsSymphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: EF
  • Mvt. IV: C–51
  • Mvt. IV: D to 4 after E
MahlerDas Lied von der Erde
  • Mvt VI: 3 after 6 to 2 before 7
MahlerSymphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 1 before 1 to 7 after 1
  • Mvt. I: 1 after 2 to 7 after 2
MahlerSymphony No. 9
  • Mvt. IV: 28–46
  • Mvt. IV: 99–100
RavelMa mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Mvt IV: 25
RavelPiano Concerto for the Left Hand
  • 2 to 2 after 1
SchoenbergChamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9
  • 1114
  • 1 before 29 to 30
  • 9699
ShostakovichSymphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt II: 6569
ShostakovichSymphony No. 8
  • Mvt. II: 78–86
  • Mvt. II: 96–102
ShostakovichSymphony No. 10
  • Mvt. I: 29 to 2 after 35
StraussSalome
  • 6 after 151 to 153
StravinskyPetrushka
  • 144 to 5 after 147
Possible sight-reading
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