Vancouver Symphony Orchestra bass audition

Audition information
Position
Section bass
Application deadline
December 23, 2018
Audition date
January 20, 2019
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(Posted on October 11, 2018; last updated over 5 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
The first movement of one of the following concertos (orchestra tuning)
Bottesini—Bass Concerto No. 2
Koussevitzky—Bass Concerto
Vanhal—Bass Concerto (C or D major)
One movement from a Bach cello suite
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: Recitative to 140
  • Mvt. IV: 431–525
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. IV: 1–37
  • Mvt. IV: 244–279
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
  • Mvt. I: 41–90
  • Mvt. IV: 32–52
Mozart—Symphony No. 40
  • Mvt. I: 114–138
  • Mvt. I: 191–234
  • Mvt. IV: 49–70
  • Mvt. IV: 229–236
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Mvt. VI, “Samuel Goldenburg and Schmuÿle”: 56 to 4 after 57
Prokofiev—Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2
  • Mvt. V: 5 before 50 to 8 after 50
Schubert—Symphony No. 9, D. 944, “The Great”
  • Mvt. III: 1 to the Trio
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 22 to 4 after 26
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 9 to one after 11
  • 40–41
  • 51–70
  • 77–78
Verdi—Otello
  • Act IV: U to 7 after X
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