Atlanta Symphony Orchestra bassoon audition

Audition information
Position
Principal bassoon
Application deadline
April 10, 2015
Audition date
May 24–27, 2015
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(Posted on April 2, 2015; last updated almost 10 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Mozart—Bassoon Concerto, K. 191
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Orchestral Works
Beethoven—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: 117–140
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 61 to first ending
  • Mvt. I: 101–123
  • Mvt. I: 149–155
  • Mvt. III: 110–138
Mozart—The Marriage of Figaro
  • Overture: 101–123
  • Overture: 139–171
Mozart—Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”, K. 551
  • Mvt. I: 62–71
  • Mvt. I: 105–120
  • Mvt. IV
Ravel—Piano Concerto in G
  • Mvt. I: 9–10
  • Mvt. III: 14–16
Ravel—Boléro
  • 2 after 2 to 3
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. II: 5–A
  • Mvt. II: 2 after L to M
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 9, Op. 70
  • Mvt. IV, m. 10 to Mvt. V, m. 27 (attacca)
Strauss—Also Sprach Zarathustra
  • 55–56
Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring
  • Beginning to 3 after 3
  • 12 to 3 after 12
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. I: 1–12
  • Mvt. IV: 2–36
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt I: E to 11 after E
  • Mvt. II: 274–end
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 71–86
  • Mvt. III: 18–27
  • Mvt. III: 57–72
Possible sight-reading
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