Kansas City Symphony oboe audition

Audition information
Position
English horn and utility oboe
Application deadline
August 13, 2021
Audition date
September 20–21, 2021
Weeks in season
42
Payment
$67,450 per year
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(Posted on March 14, 2020; last updated almost 3 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Mozart—Oboe Concerto in C Major, K. 314
  • Mvt. I with cadenza
  • Mvt. II with cadenza
First oboe excerpts
Ravel—Le Tombeau de Couperin
  • Mvt. I: 1–2
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. II: A–D
Rossini—La Scala di Seta
  • Overture: 1–3
Schubert—Symphony No. 9, D. 944, “The Great”
  • Mvt. II: 8–A
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 1, Op. 10
  • Mvt. III: 1–16
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • L–N
Second oboe excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. II: 25–44
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • 1–30
Dvořák—Cello Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 1–9
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 1, “Classical”, Op. 25
  • Mvt. III: 44–45
English horn excerpts
Bach—Cantata BWV 1
  • Mvt. III: 1–49
Berlioz—Roman Carnival Overture
  • “Andante sostenuto” to 3 after 1
  • 3–4
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. III: 1–37
Dvořák—Symphony No. 9, “New World”
  • Mvt. II: 1 to 2 before 1
Falla—The Three-Cornered Hat Suite No. 2
  • Miller’s Dance: 1–2
Ravel—Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Mvt. II: 1–2
  • Mvt. II: 4–5
  • Mvt. III: 5–7
Ravel—Piano Concerto in G
  • Mvt. II: 6–9
Respighi—Pines of Rome
  • Mvt. IV: 4 before 19 to 20
Rossini—William Tell Overture
  • “Andante” after E to “Allegro vivace”
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 3 before 14 to 7 after 15
  • 3 after 86 to 1 after 87
  • 98–101
Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring (1913 version)
  • Part I: 2–4
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