Dallas Symphony Orchestra horn audition

Audition information
Position
Principal horn
Application deadline
June 1, 2022
Audition date
October 3–31, 2022
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(Posted on May 3, 2022; last updated almost 2 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following solos
Mozart—Horn Concerto No. 2, K. 417
  • Mvt. I without cadenza
Mozart—Horn Concerto No. 4, K. 495
  • Mvt. I without cadenza
Also this solo
Strauss—Horn Concerto No. 1
  • Mvt. I
First horn orchestral repertoire
Bach—Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
  • Mvt. IV: trio
Beethoven—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: 85–96
  • Mvt. II: 249–260
Beethoven—Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral,” Op. 68
  • Mvt. III: 132–161
  • Mvt. V: 5–9
Beethoven—Symphony No. 7, Op. 92
  • Mvt. I: 84–110
  • Mvt. I: 421–end
Bernstein—Symphony No. 2, “The Age of Anxiety”
  • Variation III: F–G
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 454–477
  • Mvt. II: 17–31
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: F–110
Bruckner—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 1–52
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 1 to 4 after 1
  • Mvt. I: 29 to 2 after 31
  • Mvt. I: 39–40
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III, obligato horn part
Mahler—Symphony No. 9
  • Mvt. I: 26 after 16 to “Nicht mer so Langsam”
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Nocturne: 1–34
Ravel—Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a dead princess)
  • 1 to 4 after A
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 17–21
  • Mvt. I: 36 to 1 after 41
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 20 after D to 2 after F
  • 19 after N to P
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 1 to 4 before 2
  • 73–83
  • 107–end
Strauss—Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • 1–1
  • 12 after 28 to 2 after 33
Stravinsky—The Fairy’s Kiss (Le baiser de la fée)
  • Mvt. II: 67–69
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–28
Wagner—Siegfried
  • Act II, Scene 2: Long call
Possible sight-reading
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