Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra bass audition

Audition information
Position
Section bass
Application deadline
April 10, 2020
Audition date
April 18, 2020
Weeks in season
38
Payment
$43,505 per year
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(Posted on February 15, 2020; last updated about 4 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
The first movement from one of the following concertos
Bottesini—Bass Concerto No. 2
Dittersdorf—Bass Concerto
Koussevitzky—Bass Concerto
Vanhal—Bass Concerto
One movement from any of the Bach cello suites
Orchestral solos
Britten—The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Variation H
Verdi—Otello
  • Act IV: Soli
Orchestral excerpts
Bach—Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067
  • Double
  • Badinerie
Bartók—Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
  • 3 before 35 to 2 after 55
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: 8–115
  • Mvt. IV: 431–441
  • Mvt. IV: 454–525
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 114–123
  • Mvt. III: 1–100
  • Mvt. III: 128–218
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. III: 4 before 41 to 5 before 43
  • Mvt. IV: 3 after 50 to 52
  • Mvt. V: 3 after 70 to 9 after 74
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: E to 8 before F
  • Mvt. I: 12 after K to M
  • Mvt. II: 8 after B to C
  • Mvt. IV: K–L
Mahler—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 1–42
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. I: 13–B
  • Mvt. IV: 6 before B to E
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: 13–21
  • Mvt. I: 14 before A to C
  • Mvt. IV: 26 after B to C
Schubert—Symphony No. 9, D. 944, “The Great”
  • Mvt. III: 105–151
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 9 to 1 after 11
  • 15–17
  • 51–53
  • 4 after 54 to 70
  • 77–78
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