Portland Symphony Orchestra bass audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant principal bass
Application deadline
September 14, 2018
Audition date
September 24, 2018
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(Posted on July 12, 2018; last updated almost 6 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo of choice
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: C to 10 after C
  • Mvt. II: 5 after E to 20 after E
  • Mvt. III: 1–A
  • Mvt. III: double bar to 23 after B
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: E to the first ending
  • Mvt. IV: K–L
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: 13–C
  • Mvt. IV: double bar after B to C
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 9–11
  • 15–17
  • 40 to 1 before 41
  • 51–63
  • 3 before 66 to 74
Orchestral solos
Haydn—Symphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
  • Mvt. IV: variation 7
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III
Prokofiev—Lieutenant Kijé
  • Mvt. II, Romance
Strauss—Salome
  • Finale: 8 before 305 to 1 after 306
Stravinsky—Pulcinella
  • Mvt. VII
Possible sight-reading
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