Kansas City Symphony bassoon audition

Audition information
Position
Contrabassoon and associate principal utility bassoon
Application deadline
April 11, 2014
Audition date
May 19–20, 2014
Payment
$63,365 per year
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(Posted on March 5, 2014; last updated about 10 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
Bach—Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C, BWV 1066
  • Overture: pickup to 48 to 71 (6 before C to D)
Beethoven—Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral,” Op. 68
  • Mvt. II: 7–18
Beethoven—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 6 after A to C
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. IV: 2 before 52 to 53
Mozart—The Marriage of Figaro
  • Overture: 1–A
Prokofiev—Peter and the Wolf
  • Pickup to 15 to 5 before 17
Ravel—Boléro
  • 3 after 2 to 3
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 9, Op. 70
  • Mvt. IV: beginning to 7 after 71 in mvt. V
Stravinsky—Firebird Suite (1919)
  • Berceuse: 1 to 5 after 2
  • Berceuse: 6–8
Stravinsky—Pulcinella Suite
  • Toccata: 1 before 69 to 71
  • Gavotta: variation 2A 81 to the end, with repeats
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: 4 after A to 9 before E
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. I: 1–12
Contrabassoon excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. IV: 3 after A to 16 before C
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 2 after H to 9 after H
  • Mvt. IV: 13 before N to N
Mahler—Symphony No. 9
  • Mvt. IV: 28–30
Ravel—Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
  • Beginning to 2 after 2
Ravel—Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Mvt IV
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt II: 65–69
  • Mvt. III: 87–89
Strauss—Salome
  • 6 after 151 to 4 after 153
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