Knoxville Symphony Orchestra oboe audition

Audition information
Position
Principal oboe
Audition date
July 1–2, 2014
Weeks in season
35
Payment
$31,075 per year
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(Posted on June 3, 2014; last updated almost 9 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following solos
Mozart—Oboe Concerto in C Major, K. 314
  • Mvt. I
Strauss—Oboe Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. II: 8–A
  • Mvt. II: 37–47
Beethoven—Symphony No. 7, Op. 92
  • Mvt. II: E–F
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. II: 454–M
Bizet—Symphony No. 1 in C major
  • Mvt. II, 7–end
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 25–33
  • Mvt. II: 17–23
  • Mvt. II: 38–43
Brahms—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 3–32
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. II: 17–18
  • Mvt. III: 7 after 54 to 9 after 55
Handel—Solomon
  • Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”
  • Mvt. II: pickup to A to 13 after C
  • Mvt. II: pickup to D to 17 after E
  • Mvt. IV: 22 after E to F
Ravel—Le Tombeau de Couperin
  • Prélude: beginning–2
Ravel—La Valse
  • 38 to 1 after 39
  • 1 before 87 to 91
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. II: A–B
  • Mvt. II: 8 before D to D
Rossini—La Scala di Seta
  • Overture: pickup to 6 to 1
  • Overture: 2 to the third bar of 3
Smetana—The Bartered Bride
  • Overture
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • Beginning–B
  • 4 after L to the end of 2 after N
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 1–21
  • Mvt. III: 133–144
Possible chamber music and ensemble playing
Possible sight-reading
Discussion

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