Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra trumpet audition

Audition information
Position
One-year second trumpet
Application deadline
March 15, 2019
Audition date
May 7, 2019
Weeks in season
39
Payment
$2,182.87 per week
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(Posted on January 11, 2019; last updated almost 5 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
First trumpet excerpts
Gershwin—An American in Paris
  • 4 before 46 to 2 before 47
  • 57 to 1 before 58
Handel—Music for the Royal Fireworks
  • 17 after B to D
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Promenade: 1–2
Respighi—Pines of Rome
  • Mvt. II: 8 after 10 to 9 before 11
Stravinsky—Petrushka (1947 version)
  • Ballerina’s Dance: 135–139
Second trumet excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. II
  • Mvt. V: 201–254
  • Mvt. V: 549–573
Bartók—The Miraculous Mandarin
  • 51 to 2 after 53
  • 3 before 67 to 71
Beethoven—Violin Concerto
  • 16 after G to 8 before H
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: B to 15 after C
Bizet—Carmen Suite No. 1
  • Prelude: 6–end
Brahms—Academic Festival Overture
  • 63–90
Bruckner—Symphony No. 7
  • Mvt. I: 139–150
  • Mvt. IV: P–S
Dvořák—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. I: 16 before L to 3 after L
  • Mvt. II: 3 before E to F
  • Mvt. IV: 1–18
Gershwin—An American in Paris
  • 5 after 20 to 3 before 23
Mahler—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. IV: 3–22
  • Mvt. V: 8 before 11 to 5 after 13
Prokofiev—Cinderella Suite No. 1, Op. 107
  • Mvt. VIII, “Midnight”: 5 after 130 to the end
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 48 to 10 after 49
Ravel—Alborada del Grazioso
  • 26–28
Respighi—Pines of Rome
  • Mvt. I
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. II: 21 after I to L
  • Mvt. II: Q–R
Possible sight-reading
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