Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra cello audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant principal cello
Application deadline
April 8, 2022
Audition date
May 1–2, 2022
Weeks in season
38
Payment
$46,092.48 per year
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(Posted on March 21, 2022; last updated about 3 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following Haydn concertos
Haydn—Cello Concerto in C Major
  • Mvt. I: exposition and cadenza
Haydn—Cello Concerto in D Major
  • Mvt. I: exposition and cadenza
One of the following concerto movements
Dvořák—Cello Concerto
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Schumann—Cello Concerto
  • Mvt. I: exposition
One movement from a Bach cello suite
Orchestral solo excerpts
Brahms—Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Mvt. III: 1–25
  • Mvt. III: D–end
Rossini—William Tell Overture
  • 1–48
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • Theme
  • Variation 1
  • Variation 5
Tchaikovsky—Swan Lake Suite, Op. 20a
  • No. 4 Scene: solo
Orchestral tutti excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–10
  • Mvt. II: 49–59
  • Mvt. II: 98–106
  • Mvt. III: 1–18
  • Mvt. III: 140–218
Beethoven—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. III: Trio
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: 1–15
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. I: 2 before 9 to 6 after 9
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: C–D
  • Scherzo: N–O
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. IV: 134–211
Smetana—The Bartered Bride
  • Overture: 1 to 5 after A
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • beginning–D
  • R to 11 after W
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • Beginning to 7 after 13
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 21–A
Verdi—Requiem
  • Offertorio: 1–34
Possible sight-reading
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