Charlotte Symphony Orchestra bass audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant principal bass
Application deadline
February 1, 2019
Audition date
May 12–14, 2019
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(Posted on January 4, 2019; last updated about 6 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
The first movement — without cadenza — from a standard concerto
A dance movement from any Bach cello suite
Orchestral solos
Haydn—Symphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
Prokofiev—Lieutenant Kijé
Saint-Saëns—Carnival of the Animals
  • No. 5, L’éléphant
Stravinsky—Pulcinella
Orchestral excerpts
Bach—Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067
  • Double
  • Badinerie
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: 1–115
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: 1–218
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: E to the first ending before F
  • Mvt. II: 8 after B to 3 before C
Dvořák—Symphony No. 9, “New World”
  • Mvt. II: 9 after 2 to 3
Haydn—Symphony No. 88
  • Mvt. I: 25 after A to 42 after A
Mahler—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 1–20
  • Mvt. II: 1 before 6 to 7 before 8
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: 13–21
  • Mvt. I: 40–96
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 9 to 6 after 12
  • 40 to 9 after 40
  • 77–78
Possible sight-reading
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