National Arts Centre Orchestra (Canada) cello audition

Audition information
Position
Principal cello
Application deadline
April 19, 2015
Audition date
June 15–16, 2015
Weeks in season
46
Payment
$1,915 per week
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(Posted on March 26, 2015; last updated almost 9 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Two contrasting movements from a Bach solo cello suite
One of the following concerto movements
Haydn—Cello Concerto in D Major
  • Mvt. I
Haydn—Cello Concerto in C Major
  • Mvt. I
One of the following concerto movements
Dvořák—Cello Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Schumann—Cello Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Orchestral solos
Beethoven—The Creatures of Prometheus
  • Act II, No. 5: cadenza to 6 after A
Brahms—Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Third movement solos
Haydn—Symphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
  • All solos
Rossini—William Tell Overture
  • Solo
Strauss—Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
  • No. 6: 3 after 1 to 2 after 8
  • No. 8: 61 to 1 after 62
  • No. 9: 1 before 84 to 1 before 89
Suppé—Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna Overture
  • Solo
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–10
  • Mvt. II: 49–59
  • Mvt. II: 98–106
  • Mvt. II: 114–124
  • Mvt. II: 180–185
  • Mvt. IV
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: 1–39
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. I: 2 before 9 to 7 after 9, top line only
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
  • Mvt. I: 25–86
  • Mvt. I: 237–287
  • Mvt. IV: 166–183
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. I: 1–29
  • Mvt. IV: 1–34
  • Mvt. IV: 134–140
Puccini—Tosca
  • Act III solo
Schoenberg—Verklärte Nacht
  • Cello I part: 310–343
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • Variation 2
  • Variation 5
Verdi—Requiem
  • Offertorio: 1–46
Possible sight-reading
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