Boston Symphony Orchestra clarinet audition

Audition information
Position
Clarinet/bass clarinet
Application deadline
November 15, 2019
Audition date
January 13–27, 2020
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(Posted on November 27, 2019; last updated over 4 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Bass clarinet solos
Bach/Boyle—Cello Suite No. 1
  • Mvt. III, Courante
Saint-Saëns/Guthrie—Carnival of the Animals
  • The Swan
Clarinet solo
Mozart—Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622
  • Mvt. I: 57–116
  • Mvt. III: 1–51
Bass clarinet excerpts
Grofé—Grand Canyon Suite
  • Mvt. III: 2 to 1 after 3
Khachaturian—Piano Concerto
  • Mvt. II
Mahler—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. I: 19 to 6 before 25
  • Mvt. IV: 104–105
Ravel—Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
Schuman—Symphony No. 3
  • Toccata
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 139–141
  • Mvt. III: 152–154
  • Mvt. IV: 191–192
Shostakovich—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 23 to 6 before 27
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • 14–19
  • 72–74
Strauss—Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • 9–24
  • 29–32
  • Epilogue
Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring
Verdi—Aida
  • Act IV: duet Amneris and Radhames
Wagner—Götterdämmerung: Siegfried’s Rheinfahrt
  • 5 before 15 to 5 after 15
  • 15 after 30 for 7 measures
Wagner—Tristan and Isolde
  • Act II, Scene 3: King Marke’s monologue
Clarinet excerpts
Bartók—The Miraculous Mandarin
  • 4 after 31 to 2 after 34
Beethoven—Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral,” Op. 68
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. II
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I
Sight-reading
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