National Arts Centre Orchestra (Canada) bass audition

Audition information
Position
Principal bass
Application deadline
December 15, 2021
Audition date
January 10, 2022
Weeks in season
46
Payment
$2,018 per week
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(Posted on November 7, 2021; last updated over 2 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Two contrasting movements from any Bach cello suite
The first movement of a standard concerto of your choice
Orchestral solos
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation XI
Haydn—Symphony No. 8, “Le soir”
  • Mvt. III: trio
Haydn—Symphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
  • Mvt. IV: variation 7
Prokofiev—Romeo and Juliet
  • 329–end
Stravinsky—Pulcinella Suite
  • Mvt. VII
Verdi—Rigoletto
  • Act I, No. 3
Orchestral excerpts
Bach—Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067
  • Overture: 34–54
  • Overture: 137–158
  • Overture: 175–end
  • Badinerie
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: 1–119
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: 1–100
Beethoven—Symphony No. 7, Op. 92
  • Mvt. I: 14–41
  • Mvt. I: 275–300
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 161–191
  • Mvt. II: 47–60
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. IV: 1–37
  • Mvt. IV: 244–279
Britten—The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Variation H
Haydn—Symphony No. 88
  • Mvt. I: 83–102
  • Mvt. I: 145–159
  • Mvt. I: 164–178
  • Mvt. I: 247–end
Lizée—Keep Driving, I’m Dreaming
  • 582–586
Mahler—Symphony No. 2
  • First page
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
  • Mvt. I: 41–90
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. I: 13–66
  • Mvt. IV: 134–end
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: 40–98
Mozart—Symphony No. 40
  • Mvt. I: 111–138
  • Mvt. I: 191–225
  • Mvt. I: 273–284
Schubert—Symphony No. 9, D. 944, “The Great”
  • Mvt. III: B to 8 after C
  • Mvt. IV: 386–407
  • Mvt. IV: 103–153
  • Mvt. IV: 710–741
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 9–11
  • 40 to 7 after 40
  • 66–70
Possible sight-reading
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