Grant Park Symphony Orchestra oboe audition

Audition information
Position
Second oboe
Application deadline
March 12, 2020
Audition date
April 9–12, 2020
Weeks in season
10
Payment
$1,619.31 per week
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(Posted on January 11, 2020; last updated over 4 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Concerto
Mozart—Oboe Concerto in C Major, K. 314
  • Mvt. I
First oboe excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. II: 3–47
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 29–33
  • Mvt. II: 17–23
  • Mvt. II: 38–43
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. II: 17–18
  • Mvt. II: 25–26
  • Mvt. II: 33–34
Ravel—Le Tombeau de Couperin
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. III
Rossini—La Scala di Seta
  • Overture: beginning to “Allegro”
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • L to 2 after N
Second oboe excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. II: 25–44
  • Mvt. II: 180–197
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Opening chorale
Dvořák—Symphony No. 7
  • Mvt. II: 1–8
Dvořák—Cello Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 1–9
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”
  • Mvt. I: 1–16
  • Mvt. II: 33–100
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 1, “Classical”, Op. 25
  • Mvt. II
  • Mvt. III
  • Mvt. IV
Possible sight-reading
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