SYMPHONY Orchestra: Optional Leadership Audition Information

SYMPHONY 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 (from Bernstein’s Candide Overture and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5)

Flute 1

Flute 2

• Bernstein: m.25 to m.38 (half note = 142)
• Shostakovich:
  • Mov 1, [32] to 7 after [35] (quarter = 138, or half = 69]
  • Mov 2, 1 before [69] to [70] (quarter = 138)
  • Mov 4, 2nd of [98] with pick-up to [101] (quarter = 104)

Piccolo

• Bernstein: m.148 to m.172 (half note = 142)
• Shostakovich:
  • Mov 1, [32] to 7 after [35] (quarter = 138, or half = 69]
  • Mov 2, [69] to [70] (quarter = 138)
  • Mov 4, [110] to [111] (half = 72)

Oboes (both parts)

• Bernstein: m.26 to m.46 (half note = 142)
• Shostakovich:
  • Mov 1, [32] to 7 after [35] (quarter = 138, or half = 69]
  • Mov 2, [69] to [70] (quarter = 138)
  • Mov 4, 7 after [107] to downbeat of [109]

Clarinet 1

• Bernstein: m.255 to end (half note = 152)
• Shostakovich:
  • Mov 1, [32] to 7 after [35] (quarter = 138, or half = 69]
  • Mov 2, 4 before [69] to [70] (quarter = 138)
  • Mov 4, [104] to [105] (quarter = 132)

Clarinet 2

• Bernstein: m.255 to end (half note = 152)
• Shostakovich:
  • Mov 1, [32] to 7 after [35] (quarter = 138, or half = 69]
  • Mov 2, 1 before [69] to [70] (quarter = 138)
  • Mov 4, [104] to [105] (quarter = 132)

E-flat Clarinet

• Bernstein: m.255 to end (half note = 152)
• Shostakovich:
  • Mov 1, [32] to 7 after [35] (quarter = 138, or half = 69]
  • Mov 2, [49] to 4 before [51] (quarter = 138)
  • Mov 4, [104] to [105] (quarter = 132)

Bassoons (both parts)

• Bernstein: m.255 to end (half note = 152)
• Shostakovich:
  • Mov 1, [32] to 4 after [35] (quarter = 138, or half = 69]
  • Mov 2, [50] to 4 before [52] (quarter = 138)
  • Mov 4, pick-up to [104] to [105] (quarter = 132)

Horns (all parts)

• Bernstein: m.190 to m.201 (half note = 142)
• Shostakovich:
  • Mov 1, [36] to downbeat of 2nd of [38] (quarter = 66)
  • Mov 2, [72] to 5 before [74] (quarter = 138)
  • Mov 4, [128] to [130] (quarter = 116)

Trumpets (all parts)

• Bernstein: m.123 to m.138 (half note = 142)
• Shostakovich:
  • Mov 1, [27] to downbeat of [29] (quarter = 126]
  • (1st and 2nd trumpets) Mov 2, [70] to [71] (quarter = 138)
  • (3rd trumpet) Mov 2, 1 before [73] to end (quarter = 138, skip rests)
  • Mov 4, beginning to [98] (quarter = 88, ignore accelerando)

Low brass (all parts)

• Bernstein: m.247 to end (skip 10 bar rest) (half note = 152)
• Shostakovich:
  • Mov 1, 4th of [29] (with pick-up if applicable) to downbeat of [32] (quarter = 126, ignore stringendo)
  • Mov 1, 1 before [33] to 4th of [35] (quarter = 138)
  • (trombones) Mov 4, beginning to [98] (quarter = 88, ignore accelerando)
  • (tuba) Mov 4, pick-up to [104] to [105] (quarter = 132)

Violins (both parts)

• Bernstein: m.261 with pick-up to end (half note = 152)
• Shostakovich:
  • Mov 1, [32] to 7 after [35] (quarter = 138, or half = 69]
  • Mov 2, 5 after [54] to [56] (quarter = 138)
  • Mov 4, [113] to [115] (half = 70]

Viola

• Bernstein: m.83 to m.118 (half note = 142)
• Shostakovich:
  • Mov 1, 1 after [15] to [17] (quarter = 92)
  • Mov 2, [55] to [56] (quarter = 138)
  • Mov 4, [110] to [111] (half = 72)

Cello

• Bernstein: m.260 with pick-up to m.278 (half note = 152)
• Shostakovich:
  • Mov 1, [32] to 7 after [35] (quarter = 138, or half = 69]
  • Mov 2, [55] to [56] (quarter = 138)
  • Mov 3, [90] to [92] (quarter = 62)
  • Mov 4, pick-up to [104] to [105] (quarter = 132)

Bass

• Bernstein: pick-up to m.8 to m. 21 (half note = 142)
• Shostakovich:
  • Mov 1, [22] to [23] (quarter = 126)
  • Mov 2, beginning to [49] (quarter = 138)
  • Mov 4, pick-up to [104] to [105] (quarter = 132)