Chicago Symphony Orchestra horn audition

Audition information
Position
Principal horn
Application deadline
February 27, 2023
Audition date
April 3 through May 22, 2023
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(Posted on December 28, 2022; last updated over 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
Solo
Strauss—Horn Concerto No. 1
Excerpts
Bach—Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
Bach—B minor Mass
Beethoven—Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral,” Op. 68
Beethoven—Symphony No. 7, Op. 92
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
Bruckner—Symphony No. 4
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
Mahler—Symphony No. 9
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Nocturne
Ravel—Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a dead princess)
Schubert—Symphony No. 9, D. 944, “The Great”
Schumann—Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”
Shostakovich—Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 107
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
Strauss—An Alpine Symphony
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
Strauss—Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 5
Wagner—Götterdämmerung
  • Siegfried’s Rhine Journey: the short call
Wagner—Siegfried
  • Long call
Wagner—Das Rheingold
  • Opening
Sight-reading
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