Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra horn audition

Audition information
Position
Third horn
Application deadline
February 15, 2019
Audition date
March 16, 2019
Weeks in season
40
Payment
$57,832 per year
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(Posted on January 2, 2019; last updated about 6 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Strauss—Horn Concerto No. 1
  • Exposition
Excerpts
Berlioz—Roméo et Juliette
  • Queen Mab Scherzo: 58 to 15 after 59
Brahms—Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 199–215
Brahms—Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 188–199
  • Mvt. II: 163–215
Dvořák—Symphony No. 9, “New World”
  • Mvt. III: 117–130
  • Mvt. III: 117–130
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 1 before 29 to 2 after 31
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”
  • Mvt. II: 48–67
  • Mvt. II: 189–223
  • Mvt. III: 74–95
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Limoges—Le Marche: 71 to 4 after 71
Saint-Saëns—Symphony No. 3, “Organ”
  • Mvt. I: 366–377
Schumann—Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”
  • Mvt. II: pickup to 9 after E to 4 after F
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 10 before 18 to 1 after 21
  • Mvt. I: 36 to 2 after 38
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 4 before Y to 1 before Z
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 1 before 78 to 1 after 79
Strauss—Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • 13 before 29 to 1 before 30
Possible ensemble repertoire, third horn parts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: Trio
Liszt—Les Préludes
Rossini—Semiramide
  • Overture: quartet
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 1–20
Weber—Der Freischütz
  • Overture: quartet
Possible sight-reading
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