Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal bass audition

Audition information
Position
Associate principal bass
Application deadline
March 25, 2022
Audition date
May 7, 2022
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(Posted on March 16, 2022; last updated about 2 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One movement from the third suite for unaccompanied cello by Bach — prelude excluded
One of the following solo movements
Bottesini—Bass Concerto No. 2
  • Mvt. I
Dittersdorf—Bass Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Koussevitzky—Bass Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Vanhal—Bass Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Orchestral repertoire
Bartók—Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
  • Mvt. I: 37–56
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: 1–107
  • Mvt. IV: K–525
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: 1–215
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. IV
  • Mvt. V
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. IV
Britten—The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Variation H
Mahler—Symphony No. 7
  • Mvt. II: 6 before 75 to 1 before 78
Mahler—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 1–2
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
  • Mvt. I: 41–90
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. IV
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Mvt. VI, “Samuel Goldenburg and Schmuÿle”: 56–58
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 4 after B to C
Orchestral solos
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
Haydn—Symphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
  • Mvt. IV: variation 7
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III
Prokofiev—Lieutenant Kijé Suite
  • Mvt. II: 15–16
Saint-Saëns—Carnival of the Animals
  • No. 5, L’éléphant
Stravinsky—Pulcinella Suite (1949 version)
  • Mvt. VII: Solo part
Sight-reading
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