Grant Park Symphony Orchestra timpani audition

Audition information
Position
Principal timpani
Application deadline
February 20, 2015
Audition date
March 2–20, 2015
Payment
$1,357.52 per year
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(Posted on January 2, 2015; last updated over 9 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Orchestral excerpts
Barber—Medea’s Dance of Vengeance
  • 28–32
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. IV
  • Mvt. V
Beethoven—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. IV
Britten—The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Variation M
Elgar—Enigma Variations
  • Variation VII
  • Variation XIV
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. V
Martin—Concerto for Seven Winds, Timpani, and Strings
  • Mvt. III: 18–23
Mozart—Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”, K. 551
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. IV
Strauss—Death and Transfiguration
  • Opening
Strauss—Der Rosenkavalier Suite
  • 62–end
Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I
Possible sight-reading
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