Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal cello audition

Audition information
Position
Second assistant cello
Application deadline
January 25, 2019
Audition date
March 3, 2019
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(Posted on January 10, 2019; last updated over 5 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
The prelude from one of the Bach cello suites
Solo
Dvořák—Cello Concerto
  • Mvt. I: exposition
One of the following solos
Schubert—Arpeggione Sonata
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Schumann—Cello Concerto
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Orchestral solos
Beethoven—The Creatures of Prometheus
  • Act II, No. 5: solo
Brahms—Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Mvt. III: solo
Rossini—William Tell Overture
  • Beginning to “Allegro”
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 15
  • Mvt. II: solos
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • Variation 2
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: 1–B
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. I: 2 before 9 to 6 after 9
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: C–D
  • Scherzo: N–O
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. IV
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. IV: 79–80
Smetana—The Bartered Bride
  • Overture: 1 to 5 after A
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 3 before G to H
  • R–T
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 1 to 4 after 2
  • 4 before 67 to 71
Verdi—Requiem
  • Offertorio: 1–28
Sight-reading
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