Florida Orchestra bassoon audition

Audition information
Position
Contra bassoon
Application deadline
February 6, 2023
Audition date
February 13–14, 2023
Weeks in season
32
Payment
$47,521.70 per year
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(Posted on December 29, 2022; last updated about 2 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Contrabassoon solo
Bach—Suite No. 1 for cello
  • Courante
  • Sarabande
Contrabassoon orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. IV: 374–436
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. IV: 223–247
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 161–180
  • Mvt. IV: 94–114
Mahler—Symphony No. 9
  • Mvt. II: 9 after 17 to 26 after 18
  • Mvt. II: 27–end
  • Mvt. IV: 28–46
  • Mvt. IV: 99–100
Mahler—Das Lied von der Erde
  • Mvt VI: 3 after 6 to 9 after 6
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 3 before 1 to 7 after 2
Ravel—Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Mvt IV: 2 to 9 after 5
Ravel—Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
  • Beginning to 3 after 2
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. II: 65 to 9 after 68
Strauss—Death and Transfiguration
  • “Allegro, molto agitato” to 3 before F
Bassoon solo
Mozart—Bassoon Concerto, K. 191
  • Mvt. I: exposition
First bassoon excerpts
Mozart—The Marriage of Figaro
  • Overture: 139–171
Second bassoon excerpts
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. IV: 49–63
  • Mvt. V: 47–64
Brahms—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 1–32
Wagner—Tannhäuser (Dresden version)
  • Overture: 1–16
Third bassoon excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. II: 165–181
Possible sight-reading
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