Houston Grand Opera trumpet audition

Audition information
Position
Principal trumpet
Application deadline
March 25, 2019
Audition date
April 29–30, 2019
Payment
$345.07 per service
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(Posted on March 19, 2019; last updated about 5 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Haydn—Trumpet Concerto in E♭ Major
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. II
Excerpts
Beethoven—Leonore Overture No. 2, Op. 72a
  • 392–397
Beethoven—Fidelio
  • No. 16: 11–32
Berg—Wozzeck
  • Act I: 117–126
  • Act I: 315–317
  • Act II: 805–808
Bernstein—West Side Story Suite
  • Dance Hall, “Mambo”: 1–6
  • Dance Hall, “Mambo”: 50–93
Donizetti—Don Pasquale
  • Act II, No. 5: 1 to 4 after 1
Gershwin—Piano Concerto in F
  • Mvt. II: 5–19
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Promenade: 1–8
Prokofiev—Cinderella, Op. 87
  • No. 19: 123 to 4 after 130
  • No. 30bis: 1 before 257 to 6 after 258
Prokofiev—Romeo and Juliet
  • No. 13: 1 before 81 to 82
Puccini—La bohème
  • Act I: 1 before 14 to 8 after 14
  • Act II: 1–1
Ravel—Piano Concerto in G
  • Mvt. I: 2–3
Strauss—Salome
  • 359–end
Stravinsky—Petrushka (1947 version)
  • 1 before 135 to 139
Tchaikovsky—The Nutcracker
  • No. 12a: A–B
Tchaikovsky—Swan Lake
  • No. 22: 54–55
Wagner—Lohengrin
  • Act I: 13 after 51 to the end
Wagner—Parsifal
  • Vorspiel: 9–33
Wagner—Die Walküre
  • Act I, Scene 3: 1 before 42 to 2 after 46
Possible sight-reading
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