Grant Park Symphony Orchestra bass audition

Audition information
Position
Section bass
Application deadline
March 10, 2023
Audition date
April 10–11, 2023
Weeks in season
10
Payment
$1,717.93 per week
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(Posted on January 28, 2023; last updated about 2 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One movement from any Bach cello suite (transpositions are preferred)
The first movement from a standard concerto of your choice
Orchestral excerpts
Bach—Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067
  • Badinerie
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: K to 18 before M
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. IV: 7 before 57 to 2 after 58
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: E–F
  • Mvt. IV: 8 before L to 1 before M
Mahler—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 1–2
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
  • Mvt. I: 41–90
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. I: 13–48
  • Mvt. I: 59–66
  • Mvt. IV: 134–181
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: 13–21
  • Mvt. I: 40–96
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 22 to 4 after 26
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 9 to 8 after 12
  • 40 to 1 before 41
  • 2 before 61 to 63
Verdi—Otello
  • Soli
Possible sight-reading
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