Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra trumpet audition

Audition information
Position
Second trumpet
Application deadline
January 2, 2015
Audition date
February 15 through March 9, 2015
Weeks in season
43
Payment
$84,365 per year
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(Posted on December 6, 2014; last updated over 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Etude
Charlier—Etude No. 6
  • 1–35
First trumpet excerpts
Bach—Christmas Oratorio
  • No. 64: 1–12
Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Promenade: 1–2
Ravel—Piano Concerto in G
  • Mvt. I: 2–3
  • Mvt. I: 34–end
Respighi—Pines of Rome
  • Mvt. II
Stravinsky—Petrushka (1947 version)
  • Ballerina’s Dance
Second trumet excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. II
  • Mvt. V: 201–254
  • Mvt. V: 549–573
Bartók—The Miraculous Mandarin
  • 51 to 2 after 53
  • 2 before 67 to 71
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: B to 15 after C
Bizet—Carmen
  • Prelude: 6–end
  • No. 3: 1–8
Brahms—Academic Festival Overture
  • 63–90
Britten—The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Variation K
Bruckner—Symphony No. 7
  • Mvt. I: 139–150
  • Mvt. IV: P–S
Debussy—Three Nocturnes
  • Fêtes: 9 after 10 to 11
Dvořák—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. I: 16 before L to 3 after L
  • Mvt. II: 3 before E to F
  • Mvt. IV: 1–18
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III: 5 to 5 after 7
  • Mvt. III: 3 after 14 to 17
Mahler—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. IV: 3–22
  • Mvt. V: 8 before 11 to 5 before 13
Mahler—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 17 to 3 before 18
Prokofiev—Cinderella Suite No. 1, Op. 107
  • Mvt. VIII, “Midnight”: 5 after 130 to the end
Respighi—Pines of Rome
  • Mvt. I
Webern—Passacaglia, Op. 1
  • 4 before 6 to 3 after 7
Possible sight-reading
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