Houston Symphony Orchestra cello audition

Audition information
Position
Section cello
Application deadline
August 15, 2019
Audition date
September 23–25, 2019
Weeks in season
52
Payment
$105,300 per year
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(Posted on July 24, 2019; last updated almost 5 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Concerti
Dvořák—Cello Concerto
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Haydn—Cello Concerto in D Major
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–10
  • Mvt. II: 49–59
  • Mvt. II: 98–106
  • Mvt. III: 1–18
  • Mvt. III: 140–213
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: 1–39
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. I: 2 before 9 to 6 after 9
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I: 4–6
  • Mvt. II: 12 after 11 to 4 after 13
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: N–O
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. IV: 134–181
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: 7 before 75 to 77
  • Mvt. IV: 79–80
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 1 to 7 after 13
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 21 to 16 after A
Verdi—Requiem
  • Offertorio: 1–34
Chamber music
Mozart—String Quartet No. 23 in F, K. 590
  • Mvt. I
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