Virginia Symphony Orchestra clarinet audition

Audition information
Position
Principal clarinet
Application deadline
March 30, 2015
Audition date
April 13–14, 2015
Weeks in season
42
Payment
$37,646.40 per year
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(Posted on March 29, 2015; last updated about 10 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Mozart—Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622
Excerpts
Bartók—The Miraculous Mandarin
  • 13–16
  • 22–25
Beethoven—Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral,” Op. 68
  • Mvt. I: 2 before K to 17 after K
  • Mvt. II: 1 before D to 9 after D
Beethoven—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. III: 49–end
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: B to 5 after B
  • Mvt. I: 13 after B to 3 after C
  • Mvt. I: 149–156
  • Mvt. II: beginning to 1 before B
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 4–B
Gershwin—Rhapsody in Blue
  • Beginning–2
Hindemith—Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24, No. 2
  • Mvt. I
Kodály—Dances of Galánta
  • 31–65
  • 571–579
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: beginning–B
  • Scherzo: 7 after D to 6 before G
Ravel—Piano Concerto in G
  • Mvt. II: 7 before 2 to 3 before 2
Ravel—Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
  • 3 after 212 to the end
  • 1 after 155 to 167
Respighi—Pines of Rome
  • Mvt. III: pickup to 13 to downbeat of 15
  • Mvt. III: pickup to 5 after 17 to 11 after 17
Rimsky-Korsakov—Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34
  • Mvt. I: A to 1 after B
  • Mvt. I: C to 11 before the end
  • Mvt. III: 10 after K to the end
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 9, Op. 70
  • Mvt. II: beginning to 3 before 32
  • Mvt. III: beginning through the downbeat of 51
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • Opening to B
  • Pickup to 11 before E to 9 after F
  • 15 after M to 8 before N
  • 1 after P to 11 after P
  • 8 before R to U
Stravinsky—Firebird Suite (1919)
  • Variation de l’oiseau de feu: 9–end
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. I: 4 after B to 5 after C
  • Mvt. I: 13 before K to 2 after K
  • Mvt. I: T to 10 after T
  • Mvt. I: 8 after G to 16 after G
Possible sight-reading
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