Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra bass audition

Audition information
Position
Section bass
Application deadline
January 13, 2023
Audition date
March 13–14, 2023
Weeks in season
46
Payment
$59,855.84 per year
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(Posted on December 29, 2022; last updated about 2 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
The first movement — without cadenza — from one of the following concertos
Bottesini—Bass Concerto No. 2
Dittersdorf—Bass Concerto
Dragonetti—Bass Concerto
Koussevitzky—Bass Concerto
Rota—Divertimento Concertante per Contrabasso e Orchestra
Vanhal—Bass Concerto
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: 24 after K to 18 before M
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. III: 4 before 41 to 6 before 43
  • Mvt. IV: 3 after 50 to 53
  • Mvt. V: 8 before 70 to 6 after 73
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 161–189
  • Mvt. II: 46–60
  • Mvt. IV
Britten—The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Variation H: soli
Mahler—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 1–2
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: 1–98
  • Mvt. IV: 105–137
Prokofiev—Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2
  • Mvt. V: 5 before 50 to 51
Schubert—Symphony No. 9, D. 944, “The Great”
  • Mvt. II: 1–D
  • Mvt. III: Beginning to 7 after C
Sibelius—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: 1 to 11 before A
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 9–11
  • 51–70
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 4 after B to C
  • Mvt. I: P–Q
Wagner—Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
  • Prelude: J–N
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