Detroit Symphony Orchestra horn audition

Audition information
Position
Principal horn
Application deadline
December 16, 2022
Audition date
February 27, 2023
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(Posted on November 25, 2022; last updated about 2 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following concertos
Mozart—Horn Concerto No. 2, K. 417
Mozart—Horn Concerto No. 4, K. 495
Orchestral excerpts
Bach—Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
  • Mvt. IV: trio 2
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: 430–end
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. II: E to 1 after F
  • Mvt. IV: B to 59
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 454–477
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: 97–110
Bruckner—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 1–52
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 29–33
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III, obligato horn part
Mahler—Symphony No. 9
  • Mvt. I: “offen” after 16 to “Nicht mer so Langsam”
Ravel—Pavane
Ravel—Piano Concerto in G
  • Mvt. I: 25–26
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 39–41
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 1 to 4 before 2
  • 107–end
Strauss—Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • 1–1
  • 5 after 29 to 2 after 33
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 8–28
Wagner—Götterdämmerung: Siegfried’s Rheinfahrt
  • Short call
Section repertoire
Beethoven—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. III, trio
Dvořák—Cello Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 6 to 13 after 6
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 4 before 2 to 1 after 3
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: pickup to 55 to 4 before 57
Rossini—Semiramide
  • Overture
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 1 to 6 after A
  • Mvt. I: J to 8 before K
Possible sight-reading
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