Auditions will be held on September 8, 2026
Auditions for section strings, Horn IV, principal and section percussion
Please complete this form and we’ll be in touch to schedule a time.
TIME FRAME for auditions approx. 10 minutes.
Violin
3 Octave D scale, slowly with vibrato
Solo of your choice, optimally a fast and slow section or separate movements
Coriolan Overture (m 13 – 83)
Brahms Symphony #4, Movt. 4 (m33 – 80)
Rimsky Korsakov, Scheherazade, opening violin solo
Sight reading
Viola
3 Octave D scale, slowly with vibrato
Solo of your choice, optimally a fast and slow section or separate movements
Mozart Symphony #35, Movt. 4 (m 134-181)
Beethoven, Symphony 5, Movt. 2 (m.1-10)
Mendelssohn, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Scherzo (m.17-til D)
Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on Thomas Tallis, (letter I)
Sight reading
Bass
3 Octave D scale, slowly with vibrato
Solo of your choice, optimally a fast and slow section or separate movements
Mozart – Sym. #40, Movt. 1, (m. 114 – 130)
Brahms – Sym. #4, Movt. 1, (m. 108 – 131)
Beethoven – Sym. #5, Movt. 3, (beg. – m. 41)
(a pdf containing all three of the following)
Sight reading
Horn. (This audition is for Fourth Horn)
Solo of your choice, optimally a fast and slow section or separate movements
Beethoven 9, Movt. 3, (Adagio to m. 100)
Brahms 4, Movt. 2, (m. 1-5)
Mahler 1, Movt. 3, (Reh. 13 to 15)
Saint-Saens 3, Movt. 1, (7 after M to 15 before O)
Shostakovich 5, Movt. 1, (Reh. 17 to 21)
Sight reading
Tuba
Solo of your choice, optimally a fast and slow section or separate movements
Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, Movt. 4: (2 measures before [53] to 7 measures before [54])
Holst, The Planets, Movt. I: (m. 110 to [8])
Brahms, Symphony No. 2, Movt. IV: ([O] to 14 measures before [P])
Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4, Movt. I: (m. 174 to [K])
Sight reading
Principal percussion
Short selections: One each on timpani, snare drum, and mallets (xylophone or vibraphone)
Sight reading