Vancouver Symphony Orchestra horn audition

Audition information
Position
Principal horn
Application deadline
March 4, 2022
Audition date
April 4–5, 2022
Weeks in season
42
Payment
$80,500 per year
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(Posted on February 25, 2022; last updated about 3 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following concerto movements
Mozart—Horn Concerto No. 4, K. 495
  • Mvt. I without cadenza
Strauss—Horn Concerto No. 1
  • Mvt. I without cadenza
First horn repertoire
Bach—Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 36–43
  • Mvt. I: 65–72
  • Mvt. IV: trio
Beethoven—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: 85–96
  • Mvt. II: 249–260
Beethoven—Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral,” Op. 68
  • Mvt. III: 132–161
  • Mvt. V: 5–9
Beethoven—Symphony No. 7, Op. 92
  • Mvt. I: 84–110
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 454–477
  • Mvt. II: 17–31
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: F–110
Bruckner—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 1–52
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: pickup to 29 to 1 after 31
  • Mvt. I: 39–40
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: 6 before 28 to the end
Mozart—Symphony No. 40
  • Mvt. III: 61–84
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Second promenade
Ravel—Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a dead princess)
  • 1 to 4 after A
Schumann—Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”
  • Mvt. II: 25–48
  • Mvt. IV: 1 to 2 after A
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 17–21
  • Mvt. I: 39 to 1 after 41
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 20 after D to 2 after F
  • 19 after N to P
  • 4 before Y to 4 after Z
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 1 to 4 before 2
  • 1 after 73 t o 83
  • 107–end
Strauss—Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • 1–1
  • 12 after 28 to 2 after 33
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–28
Wagner—Götterdämmerung: Siegfried’s Rheinfahrt
  • 8 after 30 to the downbeat at “Allegro”
Third horn repertoire
Berlioz—Roméo et Juliette
  • Queen Mab Scherzo: 3 after 58 to 10 before 60
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”
  • Mvt. II: 16 after A to B
  • Mvt. II: 4 before F to 2 before G
  • Mvt. III: 74–95
Saint-Saëns—Symphony No. 3, “Organ”
  • Mvt. I: 7 after M to 17 after N
  • Mvt. I: Q to 1 after S
Possible sight-reading
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