Acting Principal Oboe
One-year-position – Core orchestra
2019-2020 salary: $810.32/week for 34 weeks + benefits*
Employment to begin immediately
Audition date: September 20 2019
Auditions will be held at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts
255 North Main Street, Memphis, TN 38103 (map)
2019/2020 Interim Principal Oboe Audition Repertory:
Concerto:
One movement of a concerto for Oboe; candidate’s choice
Orchestral excerpts:
Ravel
Le Tombeau de Couperin – Prelude (Oboe line)
beginning to the downbeat of Reh. 2
6 measures after Reh. 8 to the downbeat of 10 measures after Reh. 8
Rossini
La Scala de Seta overture – Andantino
measure 4 to the downbeat of Reh. 1
eighth-note pick-ups to Reh. 2 to the downbeat of Reh.3
Beethoven
Symphony No. 9; Movement I
measures 50-107
Brahms
Concerto for violin in D major – movement II
measure 3 to the downbeat of measure 32
Haydn
Symphony no. 96 – movement III
entire trio with no repeats
Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade, op. 35 – III The Young Prince and the Young Princesseighth-note pick-ups to Reh. A to the end of measure 8 after Reh. A
Bartok
Concerto for Orchestra – movement II
measure 25 to the end of measure 44
sixteenth-note pick-ups to measure 181 to the end of measure 197
Debussy
La Mer – movement II
Reh. 17 to the end of measure 4 after Reh. 18
Reh. 25 to Reh. 32
Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake – No. 10 Scene
beginning to the downbeat of Reh. 1
R. Strauss
Don Juan
beginning to the end of the measure prior to Reh.D
4 measures after Reh. L to the end of measure 2 after Reh. N
5 measures before Reh. O to the downbeat of 5 measures before Reh. Q
Stravinsky
Pulcinella Suite: movement II-Serenata
movement 6-Gavotta con due variazioni
Sight reading/ Ensemble playing
Sight-reading (possibly in chamber ensembles) may be required in semi/final round(s).
See link below for further details.