Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra cello audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant principal cello
Application deadline
April 25, 2022
Audition date
May 3, 2022
Weeks in season
38
Payment
$1,280.98 per week
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(Posted on April 19, 2022; last updated about 2 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
The first movement from one of the following solos
Dvořák—Cello Concerto
Schumann—Cello Concerto
Shostakovich—Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 107
A dance movement from one of the solo Bach suites
Orchestral solos
Beethoven—The Creatures of Prometheus
  • Act II, No. 5: 33–72
Puccini—Tosca
  • Act III: 5 after 9 to 11
Rossini—William Tell Overture
  • 1–48
Tchaikovsky—Swan Lake
  • Act II, No. 13: 75–105
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–10
  • Mvt. II: 49–59
  • Mvt. II: 98–106
  • Mvt. II: 114–123
  • Mvt. III: 1–72
  • Mvt. III: 96–218
Beethoven—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. III: 45–77
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: 8–30
  • Mvt. IV: 38–90
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: 1–39
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Variation 1
  • Variation 5
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: C–D
  • Scherzo: N–O
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. IV: 1–37
  • Mvt. IV: 57–109
  • Mvt. IV: 134–181
Mozart—Symphony No. 40
  • Mvt. I: 114–133
  • Mvt. I: 191–210
  • Mvt. IV: 49–62
  • Mvt. IV: 153–205
  • Mvt. IV: 229–236
Prokofiev—Romeo and Juliet
  • Balcony Scene: 8 before 138 to 9 after 138
  • Romeo at Friar Lawrence’s: 208–210
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 1 to 7 after 13
  • 1 before 32 to 35
  • 4 before 44 to 4 after 49
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 1 to 5 before D
  • 3 before G to H
  • R–T
  • 5 after Z to Bb
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 21–41
The exposition from the first movement of one of the following concertos
Haydn—Cello Concerto in C Major
Haydn—Cello Concerto in D Major
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