Vancouver Symphony Orchestra oboe audition

Audition information
Position
Principal oboe
Application deadline
December 17, 2021
Audition date
January 17–18, 2022
Weeks in season
42
Payment
$80,500 per year
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(Posted on April 15, 2020; last updated over 2 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Mozart—Oboe Concerto in C Major, K. 314
  • Mvt. I with cadenza
Orchestral excerpts
Bach—Cantata BWV 82, “Ich habe genug”
  • 1–34
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. II: 8–16
  • Mvt. II: 36–47
  • Mvt. III: 7–28
  • Mvt. III: 211–220
Berlioz—Roméo et Juliette
  • “Romeo Alone”: 13 before 19 to 14 after 19
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 29–33
  • Mvt. II: 17–23
  • Mvt. II: 38–43
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. III: 1–31
Brahms—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 3–32
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. I: 8–9
  • Mvt. II: 17–18
  • Mvt. II: 25–26
  • Mvt. III: 7 before 54 to 9 after 55
Ibert—Escales
  • Mvt. II
Mahler—Das Lied von der Erde
  • Mvt. II: 1–3
  • Mvt. VI: 3 after 7 to 9
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. II: 1–9
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”
  • Mvt. II: pickup to A to 13 after C
  • Mvt. IV: 22 after E to F
Ravel—Le Tombeau de Couperin
  • Mvt. I: 1–2
  • Mvt. II: 6–8
  • Mvt. III
Rossini—La Scala di Seta
  • Beginning–1
  • Overture: pickups to 2 to 3
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 1, Op. 10
  • Mvt. III: 1–16
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • A–B
  • 4 after L to 2 after N
Stravinsky—Pulcinella
  • Serenata
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 1–21
  • Mvt. III: 133–144
Tchaikovsky—Swan Lake Suite, Op. 20a
  • No. 1 Scene: Beginning–1
Possible sight-reading
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