Vancouver Symphony Orchestra trombone audition

Audition information
Position
Second trombone
Application deadline
September 3, 2019
Audition date
October 15–16, 2019
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(Posted on July 29, 2019; last updated over 5 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solos
Bach—Suite No. 2 for cello
  • Allemande: beginning to the first repeat
David—Concertino
  • Beginning through cadenza
Second trombone excerpts
Bruckner—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV: E–F
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I: 8 after 11 to 5 before 12
  • Mvt. II: 1 after 19 to 1 before 20
  • Mvt. II: 24–25
  • Mvt. III: 12 after 15 to 17
Mozart—Requiem
  • Tuba Mirum: 1–18
  • Kyrie: 5–33
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 2 after 60 to 3 before 66
  • 1 after 69 to 74
Wagner—Ride of the Valkyries
  • Pickup to 4 to 2 after 7
First trombone excerpts
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 2 after 13 to 17
  • Mvt. I: 1 before 33 to 1 after 34
  • Mvt. I: 1 before 58 to 6 before 62
Ravel—Boléro
  • 10–11
Rossini—William Tell Overture
  • C to 8 after D
Rossini—La Gazza Ladra (one trombone version)
  • Overture: 115–139
  • Overture: 275–291
  • Overture: I–end
Saint-Saëns—Symphony No. 3, “Organ”
  • Mvt. I: Q to 2 before R
Strauss—Also Sprach Zarathustra
  • 4 after 15 to 16
  • 50–51
Verdi—La Forza del Destino
  • Overture: 7 after C to 3 after E
Wagner—Lohengrin
  • Prelude to Act III: B to 3 before C
Section playing
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
Bruckner—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. IV
Possible sight-reading
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