Grant Park Symphony Orchestra trumpet audition

Audition information
Position
Second/utility trumpet
Application deadline
March 10, 2023
Audition date
April 20–25, 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
The first movement from one of the following concertos
Haydn—Trumpet Concerto in E♭ Major
Hummel—Trumpet Concerto
AND this concerto movement
Haydn—Trumpet Concerto in E♭ Major
  • Mvt. II
First trumpet excerpts
Bach—Christmas Oratorio
  • No. 64: 1–12
Beethoven—Leonore Overture No. 3
  • Offstage call
Bizet—Carmen
  • Prelude
Joplin—Treemonisha
  • Overture: 143–154
Larsen—Deep Summer Music
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I: opening
  • Mvt. I: 13–14
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Promenade
Respighi—Pines of Rome
  • Off-stage solo
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 49–55
  • 65–66
  • 81–83
Stravinsky—Petrushka
  • Ballerina’s Dance and Waltz
Wagner—Tannhäuser
  • Overture
Second trumpet excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. II
  • Mvt. V: 201–254
  • Mvt. V: 549–572
Bartók—The Miraculous Mandarin Suite
  • 3 before 67 to 71
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 282–298
  • Mvt. I: 513–end
  • Mvt. IV: 397–end
Dvořák—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. I: 219–237
  • Mvt. II: 7 before E to F
  • Mvt. IV: 1–18
Mahler—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 17 to 12 after 17
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. II: 4 before K to L
  • Mvt. IV
Schumann—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 1–13
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 18–20
Third trumpet excerpts
Bruckner—Symphony No. 7
  • Mvt. I: 139–148
  • Mvt. I: 234–247
Bruckner—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV: 221–237
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 27 to 1 after 32
Strauss—Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • 35–38
Fourth trumpet excerpts
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. VI: 1 before 27 to 28
Possible sight-reading
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