Oregon Symphony bassoon audition

Audition information
Position
Contra/utility bassoon
Application deadline
September 18, 2022
Audition date
October 31 through November 2, 2022
Weeks in season
40
Payment
$60,856 per year
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(Posted on August 22, 2022; last updated over 2 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Contrabassoon solo repertoire
Bach—Suite No. 1 for cello
  • Courante
  • Sarabande
Contrabassoon orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. IV: 374–436
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: 663–671
  • Mvt. IV: 709–717
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 161–197
  • Mvt. IV: 94–114
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. IV: 223–247
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 3 before 1 to 7 after 2
Mahler—Symphony No. 9
  • Mvt. II: 17 to 26 after 18
  • Mvt. II: 27–end
  • Mvt. IV: 28–46
  • Mvt. IV: 99–100
Ravel—Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Mvt IV: 2–6
Ravel—Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
  • Beginning to 3 after 2
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. II: 65 to 9 after 68
Strauss—Death and Transfiguration
  • “Allegro, molto agitato” to 3 before F
Bassoon solo repertoire
Bach—Partita in A minor for flute
  • Sarabande
First bassoon orchestral excerpts
Mozart—The Marriage of Figaro
  • Overture: 139–171
Second bassoon orchestral excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. II: 8–25
  • Mvt. II: 165–181
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. IV: 25–63
  • Mvt. V: 47–78
Brahms—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 1–32
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. IV: 1–36
Wagner—Tannhäuser
  • Overture: 1–16
Third bassoon orchestral excerpt
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. II: 165–181
Possible sight-reading
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