Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra clarinet audition

Audition information
Position
Bass/utility clarinet
Application deadline
July 10, 2014
Audition date
September 5–8, 2014
Payment
$84,365 per year
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(Posted on June 9, 2014; last updated over 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Mozart—Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622
  • Mvt. I: exposition
First clarinet orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral,” Op. 68
  • Mvt. II: 68–77
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: beginning–B
Second clarinet orchestral excerpts
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 1 after F to 7 after F
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 10
  • Mvt. I: 7 after 56 to 59
Strauss—An Alpine Symphony
  • 1 before 135 to 1 after 139
Bass clarinet orchestral excerpts
Berg—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 142–157
Dukas—The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
  • 10 before 43 to 45
Gershwin—Rhapsody in Blue
  • 5 to 8 after 5
  • 14 to 5 before 16
Khachaturian—Piano Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 220–235
Mahler—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. I: 24 to 5 before 25
Ravel—Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
  • 156 to 3 after 157
  • 167–168
  • 212–214
Ravel—La Valse
  • 9–12
  • 56 to 5 after 58
  • 63–66
Schuman—Symphony No. 3
  • Toccata: 157–171
Shostakovich—Violin Concerto No. 1
  • Mvt. II: 23 to 13 after 24
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • 14 to 2 before 19
  • 72–74
Tchaikovsky—The Nutcracker
  • No. 4, “Scène dansante”: Andantino sostenuto
  • No. 14, “Pas de deux”: 29–33
Wagner—Götterdämmerung: Siegfried’s Rheinfahrt
  • 5 before 15 to 5 after 15
Third clarinet excerpt
Bartók—The Miraculous Mandarin
  • 3 before 31 to 34
First bass clarinet excerpt
Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring
  • 48–49
First and second bass clarinet excerpts
Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring
  • 5 to the fourth bar after 6
  • 2 before 141 to 142
Chamber music
Mozart—Divertimento, K. 439b No.1
  • Mvt. I, bass clarinet part
Possible sight-reading
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