Audition – Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Principal Bass

Update – Audition is now closed – registration deadline passed

This audition is closing in the next few days, so be sure to get in touch with the e-mail address listed below if you are interested. This orchestra has auditioned for this position many times over the last several years and not hired anyone for the position. Feel free to leave any other information about this position, life in Montreal, life in the OSM, or the like in the comments.

Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
Kent Nagano, Music Director

Announces the following vacancies

Principal Bass

International audition will be held on July 30, 2007

Employment to begin in September 2007

Highly qualified applicants please send a one-page resume before June 29, 2007 to :

mcbriand@osm.ca

or

Michael Carpenter, Personnel Manager – Musicians
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
260, de Maisonneuve Ouest
Montréal, QC H2X 1Y9

Candidates who are selected to audition will receive an official invitation.

Repertoire

A) SOLO
Bach : One mvt from Suite No. 3 for Unaccompanied Cello [G major edition] (excl. Sarabande)

First movement of a standard Double Bass Concerto [orchestral tuning]

B) ORCHESTRAL SOLOS
Ginastera Variaciones Concertantes
Haydn Symphonie nº 31 en ré majeur (4e mvt, variation 7)
Mahler Symphonie nº 1 en ré majeur, « Titan »
Ravel L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (1st page)
Stravinsky Pulcinella (Gavotta, Variazione II, Vivo : de 170 à 179 )
Verdi Rigoletto (Acte I, Duetto « Quel vecchio maledivami! »)

C) ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS
Bach Suite nº 2 en si mineur, BWV 1067 (Badinerie)
Beethoven Symphonie nº 9 en ré mineur, opus 125, « Chorale »
Brahms Symphonie nº 1 en do mineur, opus 68
Mendelssohn Symphonie nº 4 en la majeur, opus 90
Mozart Symphonie nº 35 en ré majeur, K. 385, « Haffner »
Shostakovitch Symphonie nº 5 en ré mineur, opus 47
Strauss, Richard Ein Heldenleben
Verdi Otello (acte 4, section solo)

D) SIGHT READING

Sight reading, from the standard orchestral repertoire, will be required following the preliminary round. “Orchestral tuning” is mandatory.

An accompanist is supplied; please bring your own piano part. The pitch of the OSM is A-442.

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