Detroit Symphony Orchestra trombone audition

Audition information
Position
Second trombone
Application deadline
January 5, 2015
Audition date
February 16–18, 2015
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(Posted on October 3, 2014; last updated over 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo repertoire
Bach—Suite No. 5 for cello
  • Sarabande
Orchestral excerpts, second trombone part
Bartók—The Miraculous Mandarin
  • 71–74
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. I
Berlioz—Roméo et Juliette
  • Introduction
Berlioz—The Damnation of Faust
  • Hungarian March
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
Bruckner—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I
Copland—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. IV
Hindemith—Symphonic Metamorphosis
  • Turandot: scherzo and march
Hindemith—Mathis der Maler
Holst—The Planets
  • Jupiter
  • Uranus
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 5 after 19 to 20
  • Mvt. II: 8 after 24 to 25
  • Mvt. III: 13 after 16 to 17
  • Mvt. III: 13 after 23 to 17 after 23
  • Mvt. V: 3 after 23 to 24
Mozart—Requiem
  • Tuba Mirum
Rimsky-Korsakov—Russian Easter Overture
  • Solo
Rossini—La Gazza Ladra (Italian edition)
Rossini—William Tell Overture
Schubert—Symphony No. 9, D. 944, “The Great”
  • Mvt. I
Schumann—Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”
  • Mvt. IV
Strauss—Also Sprach Zarathustra
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. IV: chorale
Verdi—Nabucco
  • Overture
Wagner—Lohengrin
  • Prelude to Act III
Wagner—Ride of the Valkyries
Orchestral excerpts, first trombone
Bernstein—Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
  • 453–541
  • 664–701
Saint-Saëns—Symphony No. 3, “Organ”
  • Q–R
Orchestral excerpts, third trombone
Strauss—An Alpine Symphony
  • 93–94
  • 122–126
Possible sight-reading
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