Seattle Symphony Orchestra trombone audition


Audition information

Position
Second trombone
Application deadline
August 17, 2023
Audition date
October 26–30, 2023
Weeks in season
47
Payment
$121,816.13 per year
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(Posted on July 19, 2023; last updated about 1 year ago)


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Audition Repertoire
Solo
BachSuite No. 5 for cello
  • Sarabande
Second trombone excerpts
BartókThe Miraculous Mandarin
  • 7174
BerliozThe Damnation of Faust
  • Hungarian March: 89–end
BerliozRoméo et Juliette
  • Mvt. I: 14 before 4 to 15 after 5
BernsteinSymphonic Dances from West Side Story
  • 664–701
CoplandSymphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 610
  • Mvt. II: 1 before 33 to 35
HindemithSymphonic Metamorphosis
  • Mvt. II: HT
MahlerSymphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I: 8 after 11 to 12
  • Mvt. III: 13 after 15 to 17
MascagniCavalleria Rusticana
  • No. 5: 4 before 43 to 1 after 43
MozartRequiem (Süssmayr edition)
  • Kyrie
  • Tuba mirum: 1–18
Rimsky-KorsakovRussian Easter Overture
  • MN
StraussAlso Sprach Zarathustra
  • 5053
StraussAn Alpine Symphony
  • 2122, second trombone
StraussEin Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 3 after 60 to 74
StraussTill Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • 1 before 36 to 5 after 38
  • 2 before 40 to 4 after 40
WagnerGötterdämmerung
  • Act II, Scene II: 25 to 26 after 27
WagnerLohengrin
  • Act I, Scene III: 46 to 12 after 46
  • Act III, Prelude: 2 to 1 after 3
WagnerTannhäuser
  • Overture: A to 17 after A
WagnerDie Walküre
  • Act III, Scene I: 36–44
  • Act III, Scene I: 58–77
  • Act III, Scene III: 669–694
First trombone excerpts
MahlerSymphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 3 after 13 to 17
RossiniLa Gazza Ladra
  • Overture: 34
  • Overture: 78
  • Overture: 9–end
Saint-SaënsSymphony No. 3, “Organ”
  • Mvt. I: Q to 3 before R
Third trombone excerpts
StraussAn Alpine Symphony
  • 93 to 9 before 94
Sectional round excerpts
BartókThe Miraculous Mandarin
  • 2 before 34 to 10 after 36
  • 4 before 60 to 5 after 61
BerliozThe Damnation of Faust
  • Hungarian March: 89–end
BerliozRoméo et Juliette
  • Mvt. I: 14 before 4 to 14 after 5
BrahmsSymphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV: E to 8 before F
HindemithMathis der Maler
  • Mvt. III: 12 after 34 to the end
MahlerSymphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I: 6 before 9 to 9
  • Mvt. II: 2425
MascagniCavalleria Rusticana
  • No. 5: 4 before 43 to 1 after 43
VerdiNabucco
  • Overture: 1–17
WagnerLohengrin
  • Act III, Scene III: 4548
  • Act III, Scene III: 62 to 13 after 62
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