Virginia Symphony Orchestra trombone audition

Audition information
Position
Second trombone
Application deadline
April 1, 2015
Audition date
April 18–19, 2015
Payment
$29,066.50 per year
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(Posted on March 29, 2015; last updated about 10 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
First trombone orchestral excerpts
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 3 after 13 to 17
Ravel—Boléro
  • 10–11
Saint-Saëns—Symphony No. 3, “Organ”
  • Q–R
Second trombone orchestral excerpts
Bartók—The Miraculous Mandarin
  • 34 to 2 before 36
Berlioz—The Damnation of Faust
  • Ráckóczi March: 6 before 4 to 2 after 5
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. IV: C to 17 after C
Bruckner—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: A to 2 before B
Hindemith—Mathis der Maler
  • 1 to 5 after 2
  • Mvt. I: 7 before 16 to 18
  • Alleluia to the end
Hindemith—Symphonic Metamorphosis
  • Mvt. II: H–J
  • Mvt. II: Q to 8 after S
  • Mvt. III: G to 8 after K
Mozart—Requiem
  • Tuba Mirum: 1–B
Rimsky-Korsakov—Russian Easter Overture
  • Second trombone, M–N
Rossini—William Tell Overture
  • C to 8 after D
Strauss—Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
  • 3 before 37 to 16 after 37
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. IV: L–end
Wagner—Lohengrin
  • Prelude to Act III: B to 2 after C
Wagner—Ride of the Valkyries
  • 3–5
  • 6 to 3 after 7
  • Pickup to 11 to 5 after 12
Wagner—Tannhäuser
  • Overture: 2 after A to 17 after A
Possible sight-reading
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