Grant Park Symphony Orchestra bassoon audition

Audition information
Position
Third/contra bassoon
Application deadline
March 10, 2023
Audition date
April 12–13, 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
Bassoon solo repertoire
Mozart—Bassoon Concerto, K. 191
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Contrabassoon solo repertoire
Bach—Suite No. 1 for cello
  • Courante
First bassoon excerpts
Mozart—The Marriage of Figaro
  • Overture: 139–171
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 274–end
Second bassoon excerpts
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. IV: 25–63 (lower octave)
  • Mvt. V: 47–78
Brahms—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 1–32
Wagner—Tannhäuser
  • Overture: 1–16
Third bassoon excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. II: 165–181
Contrabassoon excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. IV: 374–436
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: 663–671
  • Mvt. IV: 709–719
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 161–197
  • Mvt. IV: 94–114
Clyne—Dance
  • Mvt. III: 1 before A to D
Mahler—Symphony No. 9
  • Mvt. II: 17 to 26 after 18
Ravel—Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Mvt IV: 2 to 9 after 5
Ravel—Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
  • Beginning to 3 after 2
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt II: 65 to 8 after 68
Strauss—Salome
  • 6 after 151 to 4 after 153
Possible sight-reading
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