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 1 year ago)


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Audition Repertoire
The first movement — without cadenza — from one of the following concertos
BottesiniBass Concerto No. 2
DittersdorfBass Concerto
DragonettiBass Concerto
KoussevitzkyBass Concerto
RotaDivertimento Concertante per Contrabasso e Orchestra
VanhalBass Concerto
Orchestral excerpts
BeethovenSymphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III
BeethovenSymphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: 24 after K to 18 before M
BerliozSymphonie 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
BrahmsSymphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 161–189
  • Mvt. II: 46–60
  • Mvt. IV
BrittenThe Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Variation H: soli
MahlerSymphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 1–2
MozartSymphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: 1–98
  • Mvt. IV: 105–137
ProkofievRomeo and Juliet Suite No. 2
  • Mvt. V: 5 before 50 to 51
SchubertSymphony No. 9, D. 944, “The Great”
  • Mvt. II: 1–D
  • Mvt. III: Beginning to 7 after C
SibeliusSymphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: 1 to 11 before A
StraussEin Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 911
  • 5170
TchaikovskySymphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 4 after B to C
  • Mvt. I: PQ
WagnerDie Meistersinger von Nürnberg
  • Prelude: JN
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