Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra cello audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant principal cello
Application deadline
April 17, 2020
Audition date
April 24, 2020
Weeks in season
38
Payment
$47,855 per year
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(Posted on February 15, 2020; last updated about 4 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solos
Haydn—Cello Concerto in C Major
  • Mvt. I: 22–89
Schumann—Cello Concerto
  • Mvt. I: 4–96
A dance movement from one of the solo Bach suites
Orchestral solos
Mozart—Don Giovanni
  • Act I, No. 12, “Batti batti”: 1–37
Rossini—William Tell Overture
  • 1–48
Suppé—Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna Overture
  • Solo passages from the introduction
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–10
  • Mvt. II: 49–59
  • Mvt. II: 98–106
  • Mvt. III: 1–72
  • Mvt. III: 96–132
  • Mvt. III: 141–218
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: 8–30
  • Mvt. IV: 38–90
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: 1–15
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. I: 2 before 9 to 6 after 9, top part
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: C–D
  • Scherzo: N–O
Mozart—Symphony No. 40
  • Mvt. I: 114–133
  • Mvt. I: 191–210
  • Mvt. IV: 49–62
  • Mvt. IV: 153–205
  • Mvt. IV: 229–236
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. IV: 79–80, top part
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 1 to 7 after 13
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 1 to 5 before D
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