Placement auditions for CURRENT ISO MEMBERS for the 2019 – 2020 Concert Orchestra season will take place on:
Sunday April 7th, 2019 from 10:00am – 4:00pm
Auditions will be held at the National Opera Center (330 7th Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10001) and there will be a warm up room provided.
Please fill out this FORM, including the $25 audition fee.
Audition Requirements
Scale Requirements:
Major and Minor keys up to Five Sharps and Flats.
Strings: 3 octave scales with arpeggios
Winds: 2 octave scales with arpeggios
Excerpts:
Excerpts are from Schumann Symphony No. 3 in Eb Major Op. 97
Flute
Excerpt 1 (Pick up to mm. 9 until 32)
Excerpt 2 (Pick up to B until measure 35)
Oboe
Excerpt 2 (Solo to downbeat of B)
Clarinet
Excerpt 1 (Solo to downbeat of D)
Bassoon
French Horn
Trumpet
Excerpt 1 (Solo to m. 216) [NOTE: Trumpet in Eb]
Excerpt 2 (mm. 383 to 390) [NOTE: Trumpet in Eb]
Trombone
Trombone 3/Tuba
Excerpt 1 (Opening until downbeat of Die Halben wie vorher die Viertel)
Violin (All excerpts are in brackets)
Viola
Excerpt 1 (Four Before D until F)
Excerpt 2 (Opening until First Ending)
Excerpt 3 (Four Before D until H)
Cello
Excerpt 1 (mm. 127 – 143 top divisi)
Excerpt 2 (Opening until measure 20)
Bass
Excerpt 1 (Rehearsal B to Rehearsal D – including measure 34)
