Chicago Symphony Orchestra flute audition

Audition information
Position
Principal flute
Application deadline
March 30, 2015
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(Posted on February 3, 2015; last updated almost 10 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo works
Ibert—Flute Concerto
  • Mvt. II
  • Mvt. III
Mozart—Flute Concerto No. 1 in G, K. 313
Excerpts
Bach—St. Matthew Passion
  • No. 49 Aria, “Aus liebe will mein Heiland sterben”
Beethoven—Leonore Overture No. 3
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. IV: solo from B
Bizet—L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2
  • Menuet
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. IV: solo
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV: 89–105
Debussy—Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)
  • Opening solo
  • 2–3
Hindemith—Symphonic Metamorphosis
  • Mvt. III: 7 after B to the end
Mahler—Das Lied von der Erde
  • Mvt. VI, “Der Abschied”
Mahler—Symphony No. 9
  • Mvt. I: 377–end
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 1 before P to the end
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 1, “Classical”, Op. 25
  • Mvt. II
  • Mvt. IV
Ravel—Alborada del Grazioso
Ravel—Boléro
  • Solo
Ravel—Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
Strauss—Salome
  • Dance of the Seven Veils: D–I
Strauss—Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • 6–8
  • 33–35
Stravinsky—Petrushka (1947 version)
  • Opening to 7
  • 60–61
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. III: “Meno mosso” to “Tempo I”
Sight-reading
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