Norwegian National Opera and Ballet trumpet audition

Audition information
Position
Principal trumpet
Application deadline
August 20, 2014
Audition date
October 12–13, 2014
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(Posted on July 29, 2014; last updated almost 10 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
First round solo
Haydn—Trumpet Concerto in E♭ Major
  • Mvt. I
First round orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Leonore Overture No. 2, Op. 72a
  • 392–411
Donizetti—Don Pasquale
  • Act II, No. 5: 4 to 4 after 1
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Promenade
Tchaikovsky—The Nutcracker
  • No. 12a, “Chocolate—Spanish Dance”: 1 to 8 after 1
Wagner—Parsifal
  • Prelude: beginning to 5 before 3
Second round solo
Hindemith—Trumpet Sonata
Second round orchestral excerpts
Bizet—Carmen
  • Prelude to Act I: 9–end
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I: 1 to 5 after 1
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Posthorn solo
Prokofiev—Cinderella, Op. 87
  • No. 19: 121 to 10 after 131
Prokofiev—Romeo and Juliet
Ravel—Piano Concerto in G
  • Mvt. I: 2–3
  • Mvt. I: 34–end
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. IV: T–U
Strauss—Der Rosenkavalier
  • Act III: 290 to 3 after 295
Strauss—Salome
  • 314–319
  • 359 to 7 after 362
Stravinsky—Petrushka (1947 version)
  • 1 before 134 to 151
Stravinsky—Firebird Suite
  • Infernal Dance: 1 to 2 after 13
Verdi—Il Trovatore
  • Act I: 42–47
Verdi—Un Ballo in Maschera
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