Colorado Springs Philharmonic percussion audition

Audition information
Position
Associate principal percussion
Application deadline
May 24, 2022
Audition date
June 8, 2022
Payment
$136.60 per service
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(Posted on April 11, 2022; last updated about 3 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Bass drum excerpts
Britten—The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Variation M
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 1–3
  • Mvt. I: 12–14
Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring
  • 72–79
  • 186–end
Bass drum and cymbal excerpts
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III
Stravinsky—Petrushka (1911 version)
Cymbal excerpts
Rachmaninoff—Piano Concerto No. 2
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV: 16 after H to the end
Tchaikovsky—Romeo and Juliet
  • E–F
  • 2 before O to P
  • R–end
Glockenspiel excerpts
Dukas—The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
  • 17–20
  • 22–24
  • 26–27
  • 52–53
Respighi—Pines of Rome
Stravinsky—Petrushka
  • 85–87
  • 122–123
Snare drum excerpts
Prokofiev—Lieutenant Kijé
Rimsky-Korsakov—Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34
  • Mvt. III: beginning–K
  • Mvt. IV: 1–M
  • Mvt. V: W to the end of the coda
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. III: D–H
  • Mvt. IV: 4 before M to R
  • Mvt. IV: W–X
Tambourine excerpts
Borodin—Polovtsian Dances
  • No. 8
  • No. 17
Dvořák—Carnival Overture
  • 1–C
  • Q–end
Stravinsky—Petrushka (1947 version)
  • 201–207
Triangle excerpts
Liszt—Piano Concerto No. 1
Rimsky-Korsakov—Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34
  • Mvt. V: V to the end of the coda
Xylophone excerpts
Bartók—Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
  • Mvt. III: 1–5
  • Mvt. III: 17–19
  • Mvt. III: 79–end
Copland—Appalachian Spring
  • 48–50
Gershwin—Porgy and Bess
  • Overture: 4–18
Khachaturian—Gayane
  • Dance of the Rose Maidens
Demonstration of various styles and chart reading on drumset
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