Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra horn audition

Audition information
Position
Third horn
Application deadline
August 28, 2014
Audition date
September 6, 2014
Payment
$64 per service
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(Posted on August 7, 2014; last updated over 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo of choice
First horn orchestral excerpts
Ravel—Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a dead princess)
  • Solo at the beginning
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: low tutti section
Wagner—Siegfried
  • Short call 8 after 30 to the Allegro
Second horn orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: Trio
Beethoven—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. III: 45–end
Third horn orchestral excerpts
Brahms—Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 188–200
Saint-Saëns—Symphony No. 3, “Organ”
  • Mvt. I: Q–R
Strauss—Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • Third horn solo
  • Tutti with first horn after the third horn solo, ending on high C
  • 13 before 29 to 30
Possible sight-reading
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