Auditions for 2010-2011 Season

The New Bedford Symphony will be holding auditions for 2nd horn and for all sublist positions on Monday, May 3 at New England Conservatory in Boston. Auditions for principal timpani will be held Sunday, April 25 in the New Bedford area.

To schedule an audition, please contact Elisa Birdseye, Personnel Manager, at ebirdseye@earthlink.net  with your resume.

Audition repertoire consists of a solo concerto movement of your choice, excerpts from a list below, and possible sight-reading.

For more information on the New Bedford Symphony, please check out our website. The New Bedford Symphony is a per service orchestra which performs at the Zeiterion Theater in New Bedford and other locations on the South Coast.

Excerpt list:

Flute

Beethoven  Leonore #3 Overture  opening passage plus solo.
Mendelssohn Scherzo from Midsummer Night’s Dream
Prokofieve Classical Symphony Minuet
Stravinsky Firebird

Oboe/EH

Ravel  Le Tombeau de Couperin - 1st mvt. opening solo to rehearsal 2
Beethoven Symphony 3 - 2nd mvt. first 2 solo entrances (beginning to A; and
mm.36-47)
AND
3rd mvt. mm.1-28 and pickup to 12 before A to 23 after A (mm. 80-115)
Brahms Symphony 1 - 2nd mvt.  mm. 17-23  and 1 note before B to 5 after B
Rossini La Scala di Seta - the Andantino:
beginning to reh. 1 and the Allegro from reh. 2-3.)

Clarinet

Rachmaninov Symphony #2, 3rd mvt.- beginning to 1 measure before 47
Brahms Symphony #4, 2nd mvt. - beginning to measure 13
Mendelssohn Scherzo from Midsummer Night's Dream- beginning to m. 48
Ravel Daphnis and Chloe Suite #2- 214 to the end

Bassoon

Marriage of Figaro (overture), bsn1
Tchaikovsky 4rth Symphony, 2nd mov. bsn1
Brahms violin concerto, 2nd mov. bsn2
Mozart, Haffner symphony, 4rth mov. bsn2

Horn (high)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, scherzo, first horn
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 , second movement solo, first horn
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel, opening solo, first horn

Horn (low)

Beethoven 3, 2nd horn, 3rd movement trio
Beethoven 9, 4th horn, 3rd movement solo (pick to m 83 to m 122)  
Shostakovich 5, 2nd horn, 1st movement, low horn tutti
Strauss  Don Quixote, variations 7 and 8
Haydn 31, 2nd horn, 2nd movement, pick up to mm. 36-38

Trumpet

Stravinsky Petrushka:  Ballerina’s Dance
Mussorgsky/Ravel - Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade only
Respighi - Pines of Rome:  offstage solo only
Strauss - Till Eulenspiegels: trumpet 3, rehearsal #36 to end

Trombone

Mozart  - Requiem: Tuba Mirum
Strauss – Till Eulenspiegels: excerpts 2 before #2 through #4, #35-38
Rossini- La Gazza Ladra
Hindemith-Symphonic Metamorphosis: Mvt 2 Letter H-J

Tuba

Wagner-Die Meistersinger: Act I Prelude (Overture)  Letter J –L
Prokofiev- Symphony No 5: Mvt I, #3-#6, and Mvt IV, #94-to 5 after #98
Hindemith-Symphonic Metamorphosis: Mvt 2 4 after L to2 after N
Berlioz- Symphonie Fantastique Mvts 4 & V (Tuba I)

Violin

Don Juan page 1
first page of  Schumann 2 scherzo.
intro to Brahms 1 and the concertmaster solo.

Viola

Page 1 of Don Juan
Roman Carnival overture (key passage)
Beethoven 5 2nd movement
Shostakovich 5 (key passage mvt. 1)

Cello

Beethoven 5 (2nd and 3rd mvnt)
Don Juan 1st page
La Mer (top line of quartet section - 1st mvmt)
Mendelssohn MSND Scherzo
Brahms 2 (or 3) slow mvmt
Mozart 35 1st and/or 4th mvmt
Beethoven 8 trio

Bass

Beethoven 9 Symphony recitative
Beethoven 5  2nd movement
          3rd Mvt. – Scherzo; measure 44 to 5 measures after A
          3rd Mvt. – Trio; beginning for 37 measures – no repeat
Prokofiev  Lieutenant Kije Solo
Mozart Symphony No. 39, K. 543, E-flat major (Mvts. 1 and 4)