Grant Park Symphony Orchestra trumpet audition

Audition information
Position
Third/assistant principal trumpet
Application deadline
March 10, 2023
Audition date
April 20–24, 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
Debussy—Three Nocturnes
  • Fêtes
Donizetti—Don Pasquale
  • Act II prelude
Gershwin—An American in Paris
  • 4 before 46 to 47
  • 1 before 57 to 58
Larsen—Deep Summer Music
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I
Marsalis—A Fiddler’s Tale
  • Mvt. VII, “Happy March”
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Promenade
  • Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle
Ravel—Piano Concerto in G
  • Mvt. I
Respighi—Pines of Rome
  • Mvt. I
  • Off-stage solo
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. IV: 1 before C to D
  • Mvt. IV: Q–R
  • Mvt. IV: T–U
Schumann—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 1–13
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
Stravinsky—Petrushka (1947 version)
  • Ballerina’s Dance and Waltz
Wagner—Tannhäuser
  • Overture
Second trumpet excerpts
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. II: 4 before K to L
  • Mvt. IV
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. 1, Op. 10
  • Mvt. IV: 3 before 28 to 11 after 29
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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