Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra oboe audition

Audition information
Position
Associate principal oboe
Application deadline
June 6, 2014
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(Posted on May 28, 2014; last updated about 9 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Mozart—Oboe Concerto in C Major, K. 314
  • Mvt. I: Exposition
  • Mvt. II
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. II: 8–16
  • Mvt. II: 36–47
  • Mvt. III: 1–13
  • Mvt. III: 18–28
  • Mvt. III: 80–115
Berlioz—Benvenuto Cellini
  • Overture: “Allegro deciso con impeto”, 13 after 4 to 6
Brahms—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 3–32
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. III: 1–31
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. II: 17–18
  • Mvt. II: 25 for 6 measures, play first and second oboe parts
Haydn—Symphony No. 96
  • Mvt. III: 8 to the end of the trio
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. II: 1–9
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”
  • Mvt. II: pickup to A to 13 after C
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Mvt. III, “Tuileries”: 1–34
  • Mvt. V, “The Ballet of Unhatched Chicks in Their Shells”: 48–52
Ravel—Le Tombeau de Couperin
  • Mvt. I: 1–2
  • Mvt. I: 6 after 8 to 9
  • Mvt. III, Menuet: 1–4
Ravel—La Valse
  • 38–39
  • 1 before 87 to 88
Rossini—La Scala di Seta
  • Overture: opening solo
  • Overture: 2–3
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • Beginning–B
  • 4 after L to 268
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