Houston Symphony Orchestra cello audition

Audition information
Position
Section cello
Application deadline
November 24, 2014
Audition date
January 12–14, 2015
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(Posted on August 11, 2014; last updated over 10 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Concerti
Dvořák—Cello Concerto
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Haydn—Cello Concerto in D Major
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–10
  • Mvt. II: 49–59
  • Mvt. II: 98–106
  • Mvt. III: 1–18
  • Mvt. III: 140–213
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: 1–15
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. I: 2 before 9 to 6 after 9
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: N–O
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. IV
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: 72–80
Rossini—William Tell Overture
  • Solo
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • Variation 2
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • beginning–D
  • R–T
  • 10 after V to 4 after W
Verdi—Requiem
  • Offertorio
Chamber music
Schubert—String Quintet in C, D. 596
  • Mvt. I, second cello part: 1–154
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