Chicago Symphony Orchestra bass audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant principal bass
Application deadline
March 3, 2019
Audition date
April 15–29, 2019
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(Posted on January 4, 2019; last updated about 5 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
The first movement of a standard bass concerto (Bottesini, Dragonetti, Koussevitsky, Vanhal, or similar)
One movement of any Bach cello suite (transpositions are preferred; i.e., not “at pitch”)
Excerpts
Adams—Scheherazade.2
  • Mvt. I: M–P
Bach—Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067
  • Badinerie
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II
  • Mvt. III
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: recitative and “Ode to Joy”
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. IV: 50–53
  • Mvt. V: 70–75
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. IV
Bruckner—Symphony No. 7
  • Mvt. I: T–W
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation XI: solo
Haydn—Symphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
  • Mvt. IV: solo
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III: solo
Mahler—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 1–2
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 33–end
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. IV
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. IV
Mozart—Symphony No. 40
  • Mvt. I
Prokofiev—Ivan the Terrible
  • Soli
Schubert—Symphony No. 9, D. 944, “The Great”
  • Mvt. II
  • Mvt. III
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
Stravinsky—Pulcinella
  • Vivo: solo
Verdi—Falstaff
  • Act III: opening
Verdi—Otello
  • Solo
Sight-reading
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