Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra horn audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant principal horn
Application deadline
August 13, 2018
Audition date
September 24–25, 2018
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(Posted on July 6, 2018; last updated over 6 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solos
Mozart—Horn Concerto No. 2, K. 417
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Strauss—Horn Concerto No. 2 in E♭
  • Mvt. I: exposition
First horn orchestral excerpts
Bach—Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
  • Mvt. IV: trio 2
Beethoven—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: 85–96
  • Mvt. II: 249–260
Beethoven—Symphony No. 7, Op. 92
  • Mvt. I: 84–103
  • Mvt. I: 432–end
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. II: 1 before E to F
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: 1–26
  • Mvt. III: 229–307
  • Mvt. III: 344–360
  • Mvt. III: 563–579
  • Mvt. III: 783–end
Ravel—Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a dead princess)
  • 1 to 4 after A
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 36 to 4 before 39
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 1–2
  • 3 after 44 to 49
  • 1 before 78 to 83
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 1–F
Stravinsky—Firebird Suite (1919)
  • Mvt. VI, Berceuse: 11–12
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–28
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 1–20
  • Mvt. I: I–K
Second horn orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: 171–205
Schoenberg—Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9
  • Mvt. V: 112–end
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 1–20
Third horn orchestral excerpt
Berlioz—Roméo et Juliette
  • Queen Mab Scherzo: 58–60
Fourth horn orchestral excerpts
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 1–2
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 17–21
Sight-reading
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