Detroit Symphony Orchestra bassoon audition

Audition information
Position
Second bassoon
Application deadline
March 31, 2023
Audition date
May 15 through June 5, 2023
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(Posted on January 24, 2023; last updated about 2 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo repertoire
Mozart—Bassoon Concerto, K. 191
  • Mvt. I: exposition
  • Mvt. II: exposition
First bassoon excerpts
Donizetti—L’elisir d’amore
  • Act II, Scene 2, “Una furtiva lagrima”: 2–9
Price—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 1–22
  • Mvt. IV: 167–234
Ravel—Alborada del Grazioso
  • 9–12
Ravel—Boléro
  • 2 after 2 to 3
  • 4–5
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 10
  • Mvt. III: 111 to 2 after 113
  • Mvt. IV: 149 to 2 after 150
  • Mvt. IV: 192–194
Still—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. II: 20–21
Stravinsky—The Firebird
  • Berceuse: 183 to 1 before 187
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 274–end
Second bassoon excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. II: 8–24
  • Mvt. II: 164–180
  • Mvt. V: 148–161
  • Mvt. V: 356–367
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. IV: 49–63
  • Mvt. V: 47–64
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 5 before D to E
  • Mvt. I: H to 4 after H
  • Mvt. I: 3 before K to L
  • Mvt. IV: 1–A
  • Mvt. IV: 15 after M to 6 after N
Brahms—Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Mvt. II: 1–14
Brahms—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 1–32
Dvořák—Symphony No. 7
  • Mvt. II: 1 to 7 after A
Dvořák—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. IV: A–B
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”
  • Mvt. II: 48–122
  • Mvt. II: 190–221
Mozart—The Marriage of Figaro
  • Overture
Ravel—Rapsodie Espagnole
  • Mvt. I: 8–9
Ravel—Piano Concerto in G
  • Mvt. III: 2 before 14 to 16
Schumann—Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”
  • Mvt. III: 1–5
  • Mvt. III: 17–21
  • Mvt. IV: 1–18
Sibelius—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: 40–55
Smetana—The Bartered Bride
  • Overture: 1–8
  • Overture: 41 after B to 13 before C
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • Variation IX
Strauss—Death and Transfiguration
  • “Allegro, molto agitato” to F
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. III: 31–71
  • Mvt. III: 124–137
  • Mvt. IV: 1–36
Wagner—Tannhäuser
  • Overture: 1–16
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