Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal bass audition

Audition information
Position
Associate principal bass
Application deadline
August 3, 2018
Audition date
September 15–16, 2018
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(Posted on July 10, 2018; last updated almost 7 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One movement from any suite for unaccompanied cello by Bach
One of the following solo movements
Bottesini—Bass Concerto No. 2
  • Mvt. I
Dittersdorf—Bass Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Koussevitzky—Bass Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Vanhal—Bass Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Orchestral repertoire
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: 1–215
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: 1–107
  • Mvt. IV: K–525
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. IV
Britten—The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Variation H
Mahler—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 1–2
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
  • Mvt. I: 41–90
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. IV
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Mvt. VI, “Samuel Goldenburg and Schmuÿle”: 56–58
Smetana—The Bartered Bride
  • Overture: 1 to 5 after A
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 4 after B to C
  • Mvt. I: P–Q
Orchestral solos
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
Haydn—Symphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
  • Mvt. IV: variation 7
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III
Stravinsky—Pulcinella Suite
  • Mvt. VII
Sight-reading
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