Kansas City Symphony cello audition

Audition information
Position
Section cello
Application deadline
May 8, 2015
Audition date
June 15–16, 2015
Payment
$52,743 per year
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(Posted on April 2, 2015; last updated over 9 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Haydn—Cello Concerto in D Major
  • Mvt. I: exposition
The exposition of the first movement from any romantic or twentieth-century concerto
Excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–10
  • Mvt. II: 49–59
  • Mvt. II: 98–106
Beethoven—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. III: 45–78 (with repeat)
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Variation 5
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: 1–15
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: 1–39
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. I: 2 before 9 to 6 after 9, top part
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: N–O
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. IV: 134–181
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: 5 after 74 to 77
Strauss—Also Sprach Zarathustra
  • 4 before 3 to 1 before 5
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • E–H
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 21 before A to 1 before A
Verdi—Requiem
  • Offertorio: 1–34
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