Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra horn audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant principal horn
Application deadline
April 17, 2020
Audition date
May 8–9, 2020
Weeks in season
40
Payment
$58,988.80 per year
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(Posted on March 12, 2020; last updated about 4 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Mozart—Horn Concerto No. 3
Second horn excerpts
Bach—Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
  • Trio
Beethoven—Fidelio
  • Overture: opening
  • Overture: first allegro
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: Trio
Beethoven—Symphony No. 7, Op. 92
  • Mvt. I: vivace
  • Mvt. I: N–end
  • Mvt. II: D–E
Beethoven—Symphony No. 8
  • Trio
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Variation 6
Dvořák—Cello Concerto
Haydn—Symphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
Humperdinck—Hänsel und Gretel
  • Overture
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: opening
  • Mvt. II: 6
  • Mvt. II: 26–31
  • Mvt. III: 13–15
  • Mvt. IV: 26–29
Mahler—Symphony No. 9
  • Mvt. I: 14–15
  • Mvt. III: 40–41
  • Mvt. IV: ff of Tempo I
Prokofiev—Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2
  • Mvt. V
  • Mvt. VII
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 17–21
  • Mvt. I: 36–39
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 3–7
  • 10–13
  • 24–31
  • 84–85
  • 89–91
  • 94–97
  • 105–109
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • First call
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • Variation 7
  • Variation 8
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 1–B
  • Mvt. I: J–K
  • Mvt. I: 12 before R
Wagner—Das Rheingold
  • Entry of the Gods into Valhalla
  • Vorspiel
  • First scene
Wagner—Lohengrin
  • Prelude to Act 3
Possible sight-reading
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