Kansas City Symphony flute audition

Audition information
Position
Piccolo / flute
Application deadline
March 1, 2019
Audition date
April 8–9, 2019
Payment
$66,749 per year
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(Posted on January 9, 2019; last updated almost 6 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solos
Liebermann—Concerto for Piccolo
  • Mvt. I
Mozart—Flute Concerto No. 1 in G, K. 313
  • Mvt. I without cadenza
Vivaldi—Piccolo Concerto in C Major, RV 443
  • Mvt. II
Piccolo excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. III: 29–33
  • Mvt. III: 107–111
  • Mvt. III: 123–end
  • Mvt. V: 418–429
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: 343–431
  • Mvt. IV: 851–end
Berlioz—The Damnation of Faust
  • Menuet des Follets: 1 to 10 after 1
  • Menuet des Follets: “Presto e leggiero” to 14 after 10
Ippolitov-Ivanov—Caucasian Sketches
  • Mvt. IV: beginning–B
Mahler—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. IV: 4 to 6 after 4
Ravel—Boléro
  • 8–9
Ravel—Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Mvt. III: 1 to 6 after 3
Rossini—Semiramide
  • Overture: 5 after G to 2 after H
  • Overture: 8 before U to U
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. I: 3 after 8 to 1 after 10
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. II: 2 before 53 to 5 after 55
  • Mvt. IV: 3 after 118 to 10 after 118
Stravinsky—Firebird Suite (1919)
  • Variation de l’oiseau de feu: 9 to 5 after 18
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. III: 162–170
  • Mvt. III: 194–203
First flute excerpts
Beethoven—Leonore Overture No. 3
  • 328–360
Bizet—Carmen
  • Entr’acte: 1 to 11 after A
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV: 89–105
Second flute excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. II: 60–87
Dvořák—Symphony No. 9, “New World”
  • Mvt. I: 9 after 10 to 17 after 10
  • Mvt. I: 12 to 9 after 12
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
  • Mvt. IV: 1–34
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