New York Philharmonic horn audition

Audition information
Position
Principal horn
Application deadline
March 21, 2022
Audition date
April 24 through June 7, 2022
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(Posted on February 24, 2022; last updated about 2 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solos
Mozart—Horn Concerto No. 4, K. 495
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Strauss—Horn Concerto No. 2 in E♭
Orchestral repertoire
Bach—Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
  • Trio II
Beethoven—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: 85–97
  • Mvt. II: 249–261
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: Trio–202
Beethoven—Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral,” Op. 68
  • Mvt. III: 132–161
Beethoven—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. III: 45–78
Beethoven—Symphony No. 7, Op. 92
  • Mvt. I: 84–103
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 454–477
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: 1 before F for 14 measures
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: B for 9 measures
Bruckner—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 3 to 2 after A
Haydn—Symphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
  • Mvt. IV: variation 4
Haydn—Symphony No. 48
  • Mvt. I: 1–4
  • Mvt. II: 8–11
  • Mvt. III: 24–40
Hindemith—Symphonic Metamorphosis
  • Mvt. IV: D to 6 before F
  • Mvt. IV: 5 after I to the end
Mahler—Symphony No. 9
  • Mvt. I: pickup to 8 for 8 measures
  • Mvt. I: 26 after 16 for 15 measures
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 4 before 2 to 3
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 29–31
  • Mvt. I: 39–41
Mahler—Symphony No. 7
  • Mvt. I: 6 to 2 after 8
  • Mvt. II: 1 before 108 to 110
  • Mvt. V: 3 to 3 after 226
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III, obligato horn part
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Nocturne: 1 to 4 before A
Mozart—Two duets, K. 487
  • 1 and 3
Ravel—Daphnis and Chloé
  • 43 for 3 measures
  • 44 for 3 measures
  • 48 for 3 measures
Ravel—Pavane
  • 1–11
Ravel—Piano Concerto in G
  • Mvt. I: 25–26
Reicha—Two trios
  • 19 and 23
Rossini—Semiramide
  • Overture: “Andantino” to 2 after A
Schumann—Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”
  • Mvt. I: L to 8 before M
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 3 after 39 to 2 after 41
Strauss—Symphonia Domestica, Op. 53
  • 1 before 29 to 9 after 31
  • 144–145
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 1 to 3 before 2
Strauss—Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • 6 for 15 measures
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 8–28
Wagner—Götterdämmerung: Siegfried’s Rheinfahrt
  • Short call
Wagner—Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
  • Act III: prelude
Wagner—Siegfried Idyll
  • 259–274
Wagner—Siegfried
  • Act II, Scene 2: Long call
Weber—Der Freischütz
  • Overture: 9 for 17 measures
Possible sight-reading
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