Colorado Symphony Orchestra cello audition

Audition information
Position
Principal cello
Application deadline
April 3, 2019
Audition date
May 6–7, 2019
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(Posted on February 19, 2019; last updated about 6 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One movement of the candidate’s choice from a Bach cello suite
Solo
Haydn—Cello Concerto in D Major
  • Mvt. I: exposition and cadenza
One of the following solos
Dvořák—Cello Concerto
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Schumann—Cello Concerto
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Tutti orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–10
  • Mvt. II: 49–59
  • Mvt. II: 98–106
  • Mvt. II: 114–123
  • Mvt. III: 1–18
  • Mvt. III: 141–196
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: 1–A
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. I: 2 before 9 for 8 measures
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: C–D
  • Scherzo: N–O
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. IV: 134–181
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 35–36
  • Mvt. IV: 79–80
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 1 to 4 after 2
Verdi—Requiem
  • Offertorio: 1–47
Solo orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—The Creatures of Prometheus
  • Act II, No. 5: cadenza plus 21 bars of “andante quasi allegretto”
Brahms—Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Mvt. III: solos
Puccini—Tosca
  • Act III: 15 before the 6/4 section to 14 bars of the 6/4 section
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • Theme
  • Variation 1
  • Variation 2
  • Variation 5
Chamber music
Mozart—String Quartet No. 21, K. 575
  • Mvt. I
Possible sight-reading
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