CONCERT Orchestra: Optional Leadership Audition Information
Please submit your audition video by the deadline of Tuesday, October 27
Instructions:
- Please create one single video with all required excerpts. Cuts are not allowed within excerpts. You may do separate takes for each excerpt and stitch them together into a single video.
- An audible metronome must be used for your videos.
- Please record the part that you are playing during the current concert term (Fall 2026. E.g. if you play 2nd flute, please record 2nd flute; if you play violin 2, please record violin 2).
- Upload your video to YouTube and make sure to set the video privacy to “unlisted.”
- Submit your audition on this Google form.
Audition Excerpts (all from Bizet’s Carmen Suites No. 1 and No. 2)
Flute 1
- Intermezzo: m. 2 to 6 before [B] – quarter = 76
- Chanson du Toreador: beginning to [A] – quarter = 100
- Danse Boheme: 2 before [P] to the end – quarter = 152
Flute 2
- Aragonaise: [A] to [B] – dotter quarter = 76
- Chanson du Toreador: beginning to 8 before [A] – quarter = 100
- Danse Boheme: 2 before [P] to the end – quarter = 152
Oboe
- Aragonaise: [D] to 2nd of [E] – dotter quarter = 76
- Chanson du Toreador: beginning to 8 before [A] – quarter = 100
- Danse Boheme: 2 before [P] to the end – quarter = 152
Clarinet 1
- Aragonaise: [A] to [B] – dotter quarter = 76
- Intermezzo: [A] to [B] – quarter = 76
- Chanson du Toreador: beginning to [A] – quarter = 100
Clarinet 2
- Habanera: 4th of [D] to end – quarter = 72
- Chanson du Toreador: beginning to [A] – quarter = 100
- Danse Boheme: 2 before [P] to the end – quarter = 152
Bassoon 1
- Prelude: entire movement – quarter = 58
- Intermezzo: 11 after [A] to end of part – quarter = 76
- Les Toreadors: [A] to [B] – quarter = 126
Bassoon 2
- Prelude: entire movement – quarter = 58
- Les Toreadors: [A] to [B] – quarter = 126
Horn 1
- Chanson du Toreador: [B] to 2 before [D] – quarter = 100
- Danse Boheme: 2 before [P] to the end – quarter = 152
Trumpet 1
- Chanson du Toreador: m. 9 to [B] – quarter = 100
- Danse Boheme: [L] to [N] – quarter = 152
Trumpet 2
- Prelude: entire movement – quarter = 58
- Chanson du Toreador: beginning to [A] – quarter = 100
Trombone 1
- Chanson du Toreador: beginning to 8 before [A] – quarter = 100
- Danse Boheme: 2 before [P] to the end – quarter = 152
Violin 1
- Aragonaise: [B] to [C] – dotter quarter = 76
- Chanson du Toreador: beginning to [A] – quarter = 100
- Danse Boheme: 2 before [P] to the end – quarter = 152
Violin 2
- Chanson du Toreador: beginning to [A] – quarter = 100
- Chanson du Toreador: [B] to 2 before [C] – quarter = 100
- Danse Boheme: 2 before [P] to the end – quarter = 152
Viola
- Intermezzo: 5 after B (arco) to end – quarter = 76
- Chanson du Toreador: beginning to [A] – quarter = 100
- Danse Boheme: [N] to end of 3 before [P] – quarter = 152
Cello
- Prelude: entire movement – quarter = 58
- Intermezzo: 11 after [A] to 9 after [B] – quarter = 76
- Chanson du Toreador: beginning to [A] – quarter = 100
Bass
- Chanson du Toreador: beginning to [A] – quarter = 100
- Les Toreadors: [A] to [B] – quarter = 126