Austin Symphony Orchestra piano audition

Audition information
Position
Principal piano
Application deadline
August 1, 2014
Audition date
September 8–13, 2014
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(Posted on July 22, 2014; last updated almost 10 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Piano orchestral excerpts
Barber—Medea’s Dance of Vengeance
  • 24–30
Bartók—Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
  • Mvt. II: 155–163
  • Mvt. II: 199–242
  • Mvt. IV: 150–184
Copland—Appalachian Spring (suite for 13 instruments)
  • 9–10
  • 43–46
  • 5 after 48 to 51
  • 63–64
Orff—Carmina Burana
  • 22. Tempus est iocundum, second piano
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 1, Op. 10
  • Mvt. II: 2 before 18 to 20
  • Mvt. IV: 9–12
  • Mvt. IV: 27 to 1 after 33
Strauss—Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
  • Ouverture: beginning–10
  • Der Fechtmeister: 36–37
  • Das Diner: 4 before 110 to the end
Stravinsky—Firebird Suite (1919)
  • Variation of the Firebird: 17–end
Stravinsky—Petrushka (1947 version)
  • 3–7
  • 64–73
  • 76–81
  • 82–88
  • 98–108
  • 2 before 113 to 118
Stravinsky—Symphony in Three Movements
  • 7–13
  • 38–48
Celeste orchestral excerpt
Tchaikovsky—The Nutcracker
  • No. 14 Pas de deux: variation II
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