Kansas City Symphony trumpet audition

Audition information
Position
Third/utility trumpet
Application deadline
April 29, 2022
Audition date
June 5–7, 2022
Weeks in season
42
Payment
$65,825 per year
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(Posted on March 11, 2022; last updated about 2 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Charlier—Etude No. 2
Haydn—Trumpet Concerto in E♭ Major
  • Mvt. I with cadenza
  • Mvt. II
First trumpet excerpts
Bach—Christmas Oratorio
  • No. 64: 1–12
Beethoven—Leonore Overture No. 3
  • Offstage calls
Bizet—Carmen
  • Prelude to Act I
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • First promenade: 1–2
Respighi—Pines of Rome
  • Mvt. II: 8 after 10 to the end
Stravinsky—Petrushka (1947 version)
  • 133–139
  • 140–143
  • 149–151
Second trumpet excerpts
Barber—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. III: 14 to 6 after 15
Bartók—The Miraculous Mandarin Suite
  • 3 before 67 to 71
Beethoven—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. I: 346–357
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. I: 513–end
Mahler—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: pickup to 17 to 7 before 18
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. II: 16 before K to L
  • Mvt. IV: 6 before Q to R
Schumann—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 1–13
Third trumpet excerpts
Britten—Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes
  • Mvt. II, “Sunday Morning”: 3–5
Bruckner—Symphony No. 7
  • Mvt. IV: P–S
Strauss—An Alpine Symphony
  • 1 before 69 to 5 before 71
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • 3–4
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