Oregon Symphony trumpet audition

Audition information
Position
Third/utility trumpet
Application deadline
September 1, 2014
Audition date
September 27–29, 2014
Weeks in season
38
Payment
$50,376 per year
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(Posted on July 31, 2014; last updated over 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Britten—Fanfare for St Edmundsbury
  • All three solos
First trumpet excerpts
Beethoven—Leonore Overture No. 3
  • Offstage call
Bizet—Carmen
  • Prelude to Act I: 3–27
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I: 1 before 13 to 1 before 14
Ravel—Piano Concerto in G
  • Mvt. I: opening solo
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • 3 before 37 to 38
Wagner—Siegfried Idyll
  • 19 to 3 after 20
Second trumpet excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. V: 201–212
  • Mvt. V: 535–573
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. IV: 4 before the beginning until 4 before A
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. IV: last 33 measures
Gershwin—An American in Paris
  • 4 after 20 to 3 before 23
Haydn—Symphony No. 100
  • Mvt. II: 15 to 6 after 15
  • Mvt. II: last 5 measures
Mahler—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 17 to 12 after 17
Rachmaninoff—Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
  • Variation 14: 36 to 3 before 39
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. II: 9 before K to L
Schumann—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: opening
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • Second E♭ trumpet: 58–61
  • 65–66, second E♭ trumpet
Stravinsky—Fireworks
  • 1 after 7 to 1 before 9
  • 1 after 24 to 1 after 26
Suppé—Light Cavalry
  • Overture: pickup to 2 after the first 6/8 for 32 measures
  • Overture: last 33 measures
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. III: 9 after E to 6 before the coda
Third trumpet excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. I: opening trumpet trio soli passage
Bruckner—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. IV: Ff–Hh
Debussy—Three Nocturnes
  • Fêtes: 13–14
Mahler—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. IV
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 1, Op. 10
  • Mvt. IV: 3 before 28 to 1 before 31
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 27 to 1 after 29
Strauss—Symphonia Domestica, Op. 53
  • 89–91
Strauss—Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • 2 after 35 to 4 before 38
Possible sight-reading
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