Member Center

Open Positions

  • All Strings

Contact Info

  • NTSO Office

  • Cathy Brown

    Music Director

    Playing concerns, membership audition requests

  • Jeffrey Weber

    Treasurer

    Money matters

  • Wendy Hebert

    Symphony Librarian

    Sheet music issues

  • Alex Brombal

    Web Developer

    Website questions, comments, & suggestions

  • Mark Parker

    TCC Office

    Turtle Creek Choral contact

Audition Information

Auditions will be held
August 13, 2008
at Sammons Center for the Arts.

Please prepare the repertoire below (specific to your instrument).

Repertoire

Please come prepared to play a solo of your choice. You will then be asked to play from the following repertoire list and given the opportunity to sight-read a selection.

Dark underlined text can be downloaded!

FLUTE (also be prepared to play piccolo)

Debussy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun Opening solo

Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition: Tuileries 6 measures before rehearsal number 34 – rehearsal 35

PICCOLO (also need to audition flute)

Tchaikovsky Romeo & Juliet Rehearsal letters D through E

Beethoven Symphony no 5 Mvt 4 Allegro (first 22 bars)

OBOE (all oboe players will given the opportunity to play English horn)

Good and steady A-440

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 2nd movement opening solo

Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade

ENGLISH HORN

Dvorak Symphony No. 9 2nd mvt solo

Berlioz Symphony Fantastique 3rd mvt opening solo

CLARINET (must have access to both A and Bb clarinets)

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 1st movement Introduction (A clarinet)

Beethoven Symphony No. 8 1st movement excerpts (Bb clarinet)

Eb CLARINET

Berlioz Symphony Fantastique

Ravel Bolero

BASS CLARINET

Wagner Tannhauser

BASSOON (OPTIONAL TO PLAY Contrabassoon)

Mozart Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" Opening and mm. 156-171

Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade 2nd movement: opening solo and cadenzas

CONTRABASSOON

Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition

FRENCH HORN

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 2nd movement solo

Beethoven Symphony No. 3 3rd movement, Trio: Allegro vivace (Prepare your normal high or low horn part)

TRUMPET

Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition Promenade

Stravinsky Petrouchka Ballerina’s Dance and Waltz

TENOR TROMBONE

Berlioz Damnation of Faust Hungarian March; 1 before 20 – 3 before 21

Wagner Die Walkure Valkyrie theme (B major statement)

BASS TROMBONE

Wagner Das Walkure Valkyrie theme( B major statement)

Haydn The Creation No 29 beginning through the ¾

TUBA

Wagner Der Meistersinger Letter J through L

Brahms Symphony No 2 Rehearsal letter O to the end

TIMPANI

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 1st movement: mm. 335 (T) – 352 (3 before U)

Rimsky-Korsakov Mlada Suite: Procession of the Nobles Timpani solo

SNARE DRUM

Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol Movement IV: beginning - M

HARP

Debussy La Mer 1st movement

Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnola Harp Cadenza

NOTE:
Auditionees who are not ready to perform when called upon to do so may be disqualified.

Auditionees cannot appeal against the decisions of the jury. The decisions of the symphony and jury are final during all stages of the auditions, and cannot be called into question either in person or through correspondence.

« Return to the Member Area