Toronto Symphony Orchestra cello audition

Audition information
Position
Section cello
Application deadline
December 9, 2019
Audition date
January 8–9, 2020
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(Posted on November 14, 2019; last updated over 4 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following concerto movements
Dvořák—Cello Concerto
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Haydn—Cello Concerto in D Major
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Schumann—Cello Concerto
  • 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: 53–74
  • Mvt. III: 140–218
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Variation 5
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: 1–15
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. I: 2 before 9 to 7 after 9, top line only
Mahler—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: first page
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 12 after 11 to 4 after 13
  • Mvt. V: 2 to 3 before 3
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 1–D
  • Scherzo: M–O
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. IV: 10 after D to E
Prokofiev—Romeo and Juliet
  • Balcony Scene: 8 before 138 to 10 after 138
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 35–36
  • Mvt. II: 54–56
  • Mvt. IV: 6 after 91 to 3 after 92
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 1 to 4 before D
  • R–T
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 1 to 7 before 14
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 9 bars of first Moderato
  • Mvt. I: H–O
  • Mvt. II: 21 to 16 after A
Verdi—Requiem
  • Offertorio: 1–34
One movement from a Bach suite
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