Oregon Symphony bass audition

Audition information
Position
Principal bass
Application deadline
October 20, 2014
Audition date
November 15–17, 2014
Weeks in season
38
Payment
$62,582 per year
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(Posted on July 31, 2014; last updated over 10 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One movement of a word from the Baroque, Classical, or Romantic period
Orchestral excerpts
Bach—Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067
  • Badinerie
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: 1–100
  • Mvt. III: 141–218
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: 8–29
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. V: “Witches’ Round Dance”
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 74–87
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. IV: 1–33
Britten—The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Variation H
Bruckner—Symphony No. 7
  • Mvt. I: E–G
  • Mvt. IV: P–S
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation XI
Haydn—Symphony No. 88
  • Mvt. I: 85–102
Haydn—Symphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
  • Mvt. IV: variation 7 solo
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III: 3–10
Mahler—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 1–15
Mozart—Symphony No. 40
  • Mvt. I: 114–138
Mozart—Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”, K. 551
  • Mvt. II
Prokofiev—Lieutenant Kijé Suite
  • Mvt. II, romanza: solo only
Schubert—Symphony No. 9, D. 944, “The Great”
  • Mvt. III: 1–238
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 3 before 24 to 11 after 25
Strauss—Also Sprach Zarathustra
  • 10 before 36 to 1 before 38
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 9 to 6 after 13
Stravinsky—Pulcinella
Verdi—Otello
  • Act IV: Soli
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