Chicago Symphony Orchestra bass audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant principal bass
Application deadline
April 24, 2023
Audition date
June 19–26, 2023
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(Posted on April 2, 2023; last updated over 1 year ago)

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Audition Repertoire
The first movement exposition (1–2 minutes)) of a standard bass concerto (Bottesini, Dragonetti, Koussevitsky, Tubin, Vanhal, or similar)
One movement of any Bach cello suite
Excerpts
Bartók—Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
  • Mvt. I: 37–56
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 107–124
  • Mvt. III: 1–218
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: 1–107
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. IV: 3 after 50 to 53
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 118–155
  • Mvt. IV: 244–279
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation XI: solo
Haydn—Symphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
  • Mvt. IV: variation 7 solo
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III: solo
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 43 to 1 after 47
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
  • Mvt. I: 41–90
  • Mvt. IV: 34–A
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: 13–21
  • Mvt. I: 40–98
  • Mvt. IV: 105–137
Mozart—Symphony No. 40
  • Mvt. I: 115–138
  • Mvt. I: 191–225
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. IV: 134–181
Prokofiev—Romeo and Juliet
  • Soli
Schubert—Symphony No. 9, D. 944, “The Great”
  • Mvt. II: 1–8
  • Mvt. II: C to 1 after D
  • Mvt. III: B–151
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 9 to 1 after 11
  • 40–41
  • 51 to 3 after 65
Strauss—Death and Transfiguration
  • 10 before E to 5 after F
Stravinsky—Pulcinella
  • Vivo: solo
Verdi—Otello
  • Act IV: Soli
Verdi—Falstaff
  • Act III: opening
Sight-reading
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