Houston Symphony Orchestra bassoon audition

Audition information
Position
Associate principal bassoon
Application deadline
November 8, 2019
Audition date
January 13 through February 11, 2020
Weeks in season
52
Payment
$105,300 per year
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(Posted on September 23, 2019; last updated over 5 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Mozart—Bassoon Concerto, K. 191
  • Mvt. I (no cadenza)
  • Mvt. II (no cadenza)
First bassoon excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. IV: 349–356
Beethoven—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV: 15–25
  • Mvt. IV: 184–190
  • Mvt. IV: 298–302
Beethoven—Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral,” Op. 68
  • Mvt. II: 7–13
  • Mvt. II: 103–120
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. II: 177–F
  • Mvt. III: 63–90
Beethoven—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 20–30
  • Mvt. III: 134–158
Brahms—Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Mvt. II: 1–14
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: B–46
  • Mvt. I: 61 to first ending
  • Mvt. I: pickup to F to G
  • Mvt. I: H–119
  • Mvt. II: 1–B
  • Mvt. II: pickup to C to 50
  • Mvt. IV: 1–A
  • Mvt. IV: G–131
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III: 2–5
  • Mvt. III: 6–7
  • Mvt. III: 19–end
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. IV: 147–181
Mozart—The Marriage of Figaro
  • Overture: 1–A
  • Overture: pickup to 102 to 123
  • Overture: 139–D
  • Overture: 215–220
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • 106–107
  • 109 to 1 after 110
Ravel—Piano Concerto in G
  • Mvt. I: 9–10
  • Mvt. III: 5 after 14 to 16
Ravel—Boléro
  • 2–3
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. II: 1–A
  • Mvt. II: L–M
Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring
  • 1 to 3 after 3
Stravinsky—Pulcinella
  • Variation 2a: 166–170
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 274–end
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 71–D
  • Mvt. II: E–86
  • Mvt. III: 16–72
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. I: 1–12
Third bassoon excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. II: 165–181
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. IV: 15 before 51 to 2 after 53
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