National Arts Centre Orchestra (Canada) trombone audition

Audition information
Position
Bass trombone
Application deadline
November 14, 2022
Audition date
January 15–17, 2023
Weeks in season
35
Payment
$2,048 per week
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(Posted on November 1, 2022; last updated over 2 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solos
Bach—Suite No. 5 for cello
  • Sarabande
Raum—Concerto for Bass Trombone
  • Mvt. III
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: 595–626
Berlioz—The Damnation of Faust
  • Hungarian March
Bernstein—Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
  • 661–684
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. IV: 47–61
Bruckner—Symphony No. 9
  • Mvt. I: N–R
Franck—Symphony in D minor
  • Mvt. III: N to 18 after N
Haydn—The Creation
  • No. 26: 1–37
Lau—Dark Angels — Concert Suite
  • 297–355
Lizée—Keep Driving, I’m Dreaming
  • 95–121
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 19–20
  • Mvt. II: 9 after 24 to 25
  • Mvt. III: 16 after 15 to 16
  • Mvt. III: pickup to 25 to 26
  • Mvt. V: 1 before 22 to 24
  • Mvt. V: 1 before 25 to 8 after 25
Mozart—Requiem
  • Kyrie
Respighi—Fountains of Rome
  • Pickup to 11 to 20 after 15
Rossini—William Tell Overture
  • C to 9 after D
Schubert—Symphony No. 8, D. 759, “Unfinished”
  • Mvt. II
Schumann—Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”
  • Mvt. IV: 1 to 13 after A
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 3 after 38 to 39
  • Mvt. IV: 97–98
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 51 to 4 after 52
  • 55 to 2 after 56
  • 61–65
  • 5 before 72 to 74
  • 89–90
Wagner—Das Rheingold
  • Scene 2, trombone 4: 36–55
  • Scene 4: final 18 measures
Wagner—Die Walküre
  • Act III: pickup to 3 to 12
Possible sight-reading
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