Kansas City Symphony oboe audition

Audition information
Position
English horn and utility oboe
Application deadline
December 10, 2021
Audition date
January 31 through February 1, 2022
Weeks in season
42
Payment
$68,836 per year
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(Posted on November 7, 2021; 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
  • 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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