West Virginia Symphony Orchestra trumpet audition

Audition information
Position
Third trumpet
Application deadline
April 15, 2014
Audition date
May 3, 2014
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(Posted on March 12, 2014; last updated over 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Haydn—Trumpet Concerto in E♭ Major
Excerpts (first trumpet parts, to be played on rotary trumpet)
Beethoven—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. III
  • Mvt. IV
Excerpts (first trumpet parts, to be played on piston trumpet)
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I: 1 to 3 after 1
  • Mvt. I: 7–8
  • Mvt. I: 9–14
  • Mvt. I: 14 after 19 to the end
  • Mvt. III: 13 to 8 after 13
  • Mvt. III: 18 after 19 to 21
  • Mvt. V
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Promenade
  • Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle
Ravel—Piano Concerto in G
  • Mvt. I: 5 before 2 to 3
  • Mvt. I: 34–end
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. II: 1 before E to F
  • Mvt. III: G–I
  • Mvt. IV: 1 before C to F
  • Mvt. IV: Q–R
  • Mvt. IV: T–U
  • Mvt. IV: W–end
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 1, Op. 10
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. II: 21–22
  • Mvt. III: 20–21
Stravinsky—Petrushka (1947 version)
  • Dance: 134–139
  • Waltz: 149–158
  • Full ballet ending, 265–267
Excerpts (second trumpet, to be played on a piston trumpet)
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. I: 328–397
  • Mvt. II: 90–147
  • Mvt. V: 201–255
  • Mvt. V: 556–573
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. IV: 1 before C to F
  • Mvt. IV: Q–R
  • Mvt. IV: W–end
Excerpts (both first and second trumpet parts, played on a rotary trumpet)
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 13 after H to the end
  • Mvt. IV
Schumann—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 1–14
  • Mvt. IV
Excerpts (third trumpet, played on a rotary trumpet)
Brahms—Academic Festival Overture
Excerpts (third trumpet, played on a piston trumpet)
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 1, Op. 10
Excerpts (first, second, and third trumpet parts, played on a rotary trumpet)
Bruckner—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: E–L
  • Mvt. I: 6 before Q to the end
  • Mvt. IV: E–F
  • Mvt. IV: P–end
Sight-reading
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