Reading Symphony Orchestra timpani audition

Audition information
Position
Principal timpani
Application deadline
April 20, 2015
Audition date
May 12, 2015
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(Posted on March 26, 2015; last updated about 10 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • C in Mvt. III to 4 before A in Mvt. IV
Beethoven—Symphony No. 7, Op. 92
  • Mvt. I: 89 to 2 after C
  • Mvt. IV: 3 before K to the end
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. I: 513–end
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. IV: 375–end
Hindemith—Symphonic Metamorphosis
  • Mvt. II: 5 after S to T
  • Mvt. II: 7 after Y to the end
Martin—Concerto for Seven Winds, Timpani, and Strings
  • Mvt. III: 6 after 18 to 7 after 22
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: beginning to “Allegro”
Saint-Saëns—Samson and Delilah
  • Bacchanale: B–C
  • Bacchanale: G–end
Sibelius—Finlandia
  • E–I
Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring
  • 189–end
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: T to 9 after U
  • Mvt. IV: 272–end
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