Peoria Symphony Orchestra

Substitute Auditions

All musicians: A solo work of your choosing

Sight-Reading will be required.

Please prepare the following excepts and bring your music to the audition:

Winds:

Flute: Beethoven — Leonore Overture

Mendelssohn — Midsummer Night’s Dream — Scherzo

Rossini — William Tell Overture

Dvorak — Symphony #8 — Mvt. 4 solo

Piccolo — Tschaikovsky Symphony #4

Oboe: Brahms — Symphony #1 (mvt.s 1 & 2)

Tchaikovsky — Symphony #4 — Mvt 2

Brahms — Variations on a Theme by Haydn (2^nd Oboe)

Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra (mvt. 2) (2^nd Oboe)

Rossini - La Scala di Seta - beginning to #1 - Pickup to #2, through #3

English Horn — New World Symphony, Mvt #2

English Horn - Roman Carnival Overture (Opening section - all)

English Horn - Three-Cornered Hat (Cadenza)

Clarinet: Brahms 1^st Symphony — All

Mendelssohn — Midsummer Night’s Dream Incidental Music —

Scherzo only

Stravinsky — Firebird — Variation

Eb Clarinet - Til Eulenspiegel — All

Bass Clarinet — Grofé - Grand Canyon Suite —On the Trail (Cadenza)

Bassoon: Mozart — Marriage of Figaro overture

Tchaikovsky — Symphony #4 — Mvt 2 solo

Rimsky-Korsakov — Sherherezade — 2^nd Mvt. solos and cadenza

Stravinsky — Rite of Spring Opening

Contra-Bassoon — Ravel Mother Goose Suite