Memphis Symphony Orchestra oboe audition

Audition information
Position
Acting principal oboe
Application deadline
September 6, 2019
Audition date
September 20, 2019
Weeks in season
34
Payment
$810.32 per week
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(Posted on July 17, 2019; last updated almost 5 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One movement of an oboe concerto of the candidate’s choice
Orchestral excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. II: 25–44
  • Mvt. II: 181–197
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. I: 50–107
Brahms—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 3–32
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. II: 17 to the end of 4 after 18
  • Mvt. II: 25–32
Haydn—Symphony No. 96
  • Mvt. III: trio
Ravel—Le Tombeau de Couperin
  • Prelude: 1–2
  • Prelude: 6 after 8 to 10 after 8
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. III: pickups to A to the end of 8 after A
Rossini—La Scala di Seta
  • Overture: 4–1
  • Overture: pickups to 2 to 3
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • Beginning–D
  • 4 after L to 2 after N
  • 5 before O to the downbeat of 5 before Q
Stravinsky—Pulcinella Suite
  • Mvt. II
  • Mvt. VI
Tchaikovsky—Swan Lake
  • No. 10, Scene: beginning–1
Possible sight-reading
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