Auditions
The New Bedford Symphony is a per service orchestra which performs at the Zeiterion Theatre in New Bedford and other locations on the South Coast.
The New Bedford Symphony will be holding auditions for the 2011/2012 season on Thursday May 5 from 10am to 3pm at New England Conservatory in Boston. The audition will be held in the Jordan Hall building, Room 252, with room 255 available for warm-ups. The auditions will be for all sublist positions.
To schedule an audition, please email Elisa Birdseye,
Personnel Manager, with your resume.
Audition repertoire consists of a solo concerto movement of your choice, excerpts from the list below, and possible sight-reading.
Excerpt list
Flute
- Beethoven: Leonore #3 Overture, opening passage plus solo
- Mendelssohn: Scherzo from Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Prokofiev: 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; mm.36- 47), 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
Slow excerpts:
- Rachmaninov: Symphony #2, 3rd mvt.- beginning to 1 measure before 47
- Brahms: Symphony #4, 2nd mvt. - beginning to measure 13
Fast:
- Mendelssohn: Scherzo from Midsummer Night's Dream- beginning to measure 48
- Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe Suite #2- 214 to the end
Bassoon
- Mozart: Marriage of Figaro (overture), bsn1
- Tchaikovsky: 4th Symphony, 2nd mov. bsn1
- Brahms: violin concerto, 2nd mov. bsn2
- Mozart: Haffner symphony, 4rth mov. bsn2
Horn
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, scherzo, first horn
- Brahms: Symphony No. 1, second movement solo, first horn
- Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel, opening solo, first horn
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
- Beethoven 5 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)