Baltimore Symphony Orchestra flute audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant principal flute
Application deadline
August 29, 2014
Audition date
November 6–11, 2014
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(Posted on July 22, 2014; last updated over 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solos
Bach—St. Matthew Passion
  • No. 49 Aria, “Aus liebe will mein Heiland sterben”: 1–18
Mozart—Flute Concerto No. 1 in G, K. 313
  • Mvt. I: exposition with cadenza
  • Mvt. II: exposition
Mozart—Flute Quartet No. 1 in D Major, K. 285
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Leonore Overture No. 3
  • E–360
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV: 89–105
Debussy—Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)
  • 1–4
  • 1 to 4 after 1
  • 2–3
Mahler—Symphony No. 9
  • Mvt. I: 22 after 16 to 46 after 16
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
  • Mvt. IV: 1–34
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 12 before P to the end
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 3 after 13 to 7 before 15
  • Mvt. I: 39–41
  • Mvt. I: 44 to 2 after 45
Children’s concert repertoire
Prokofiev—Peter and the Wolf
  • 2–4
  • 8 to 8 after 8
  • 42–43
  • 51–52
Saint-Saëns—Carnival of the Animals
  • Mvt. X, Volière
Stravinsky—Firebird Suite (1919)
  • Variation de l’oiseau de feu: 9 to 5 after 18
Assistant principal solos
Grieg—Piano Concerto
  • Mvt. III: 11 after D to 32 after D
Ravel—Piano Concerto in G
  • Mvt. II: solo
Tchaikovsky—Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Mvt. II: 5–12
  • Mvt. III: 86–92
Piccolo excerpts
Ippolitov-Ivanov—Caucasian Sketches
  • Mvt. IV, Procession of the Sardar
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. II: 2 before 53 to 5 after 58
  • Mvt. IV: 3 after 118 to 7 after 118
Possible sight-reading
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