Detroit Symphony Orchestra trumpet audition

Audition information
Position
Second trumpet
Application deadline
March 17, 2023
Audition date
May 1–3, 2023
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(Posted on January 28, 2023; last updated about 2 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo repertoire
Honegger—Intrada
Snedecor—Lyrical Etudes for Trumpet
  • Etude No. 6
First trumpet excerpts
Bach—Magnificat, BWV 243
  • Mvt. I: 1–31
Beethoven—Leonore Overture No. 3
  • Offstage solo
Bizet—Carmen Suite No. 1
  • Prelude to Act 1
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Opening promenade
Respighi—Pines of Rome
  • Mvt. II: offstage solo
Stravinsky—Petrushka (1947 version)
  • 1 before 134 to 139
Second trumpet excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. I: 328–396
  • Mvt. II: 90–147
  • Mvt. V: 201–254
  • Mvt. V: 549–573
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: A to 9 after A
Brahms—Academic Festival Overture
  • 15 after C to 12 after D
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. IV: 5 before P to the end
Bruckner—Symphony No. 7
  • Mvt. I: 139–149
Dvořák—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. I: 18 after K to L
  • Mvt. II: 7 before E to F
Mahler—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 17 to 8 after 19
  • Mvt. IV
  • Mvt. V: 7 before 11 to 5 after 13
  • Mvt. V: 8 before 19 to 20
Mahler—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 1 before 17 to 6 before 18
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 48 to 2 after 51
Ravel—Alborada del Grazioso
  • 26–29
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. IV: 8 after C to F
  • Mvt. IV: P–R
Schumann—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 1–A
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 18–20
  • Mvt. I: 27–32
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 58–66
  • 12 after 109 to the end
Stravinsky—Firebird Suite
  • Infernal Dance: 2 before 2 to 3
Stravinsky—Petrushka (1947 version)
  • 265–267
Wagner—Tannhäuser
  • Overture: 1 before M to the end
Possible sight-reading
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