Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Principal Trumpet

Preliminary auditions: September 7 and 8, 2004

Final audition: Tentatively scheduled for October 25, 2004

Application deadline: August 6, 2004
Applications received after the above due date will not be considered.

Employment date: Effective Immediately

Note: All audition candidates are responsible for obtaining audition repertoire from standard excerpt books, purchasable music and orchestral scores. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra will not provide copies of any excerpts.

How to apply for this audition

I. Required Solo Pieces (choose one of the following):

Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in Eb Major, 1st mvt.
Hummel: Trumpet Concerto in E or Eb Major, 1st mvt.
II. Excerpts required of each player:
Use of both rotary-valved and piston-valved trumpet is required to audition successfully for this position. When a specific instrument is required for a given excerpt, it is indicated below. For those excerpts without a specification, the choice of instrument is left to the discretion of the candidate.

Bach: Magnificat, opening to measure 31 (on piccolo trumpet)
Bach: Mass in B Minor (on piccolo trumpet)
Symbolum Nicenum, 2. Patrum omnipotentum, measures 29-47
Beethoven: Leonore Overtures No. 2 and No. 3, offstage calls
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture (on rotary trumpet)
14 measures after C through 13 after D
Brahms: Symphony No. 2, (on rotary trumpet)
Mvt 1, measures 282 through 298
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (on rotary trumpet)
Mvt 1, measures 91 through 98, measures 139 through 148
Mvt 2, measures 172 through 182
Mvt 3, measures 169 through 188
Mvt 4, measures 191 through 212, measures 285 through end
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (on rotary trumpet)
Mvt 3, measures 197 through 210
Mvt 4, measures 11 through 30
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (on rotary trumpet)
Scherzo, measures 203 through 247
Debussy: La Mer, Mvt 3, Figure 44 through 45
Gershwin: Piano Concerto, F Major, (on piston trumpet)
Mvt 2, measures 5 through Figure 1
Mahler: Song of the Earth
Mvt 1, 5 measures before 29 through 4 before 30
Mahler: Symphony No. 2
Mvt 1, 11 measures after 11 through 7 after 12
Mvt 1, 9 measures after 16 through 17 after 16
Mvt 1, Figure 25 through 2 after 26
Mvt 3, 1 measure before 40 through 2 after 41
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (offstage solo)
Mvt 3, 1 measure before 14 through 16
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Mvt 1, beginning through 4 measures after 1
Mvt 1, Figure 7 through 8
Mvt 1, 1 measure before Figure 13 through 15 after 13
Mvt 3, Figure 13 through 8 after 13
Mahler: Symphony No. 6
Mvt 4, Figure 124 through 3 after 126
Mahler: Symphony No. 7
Mvt 1, 5 measures after 4 through 5
Mvt 1, 3 measures after 52 through 4 after 53
Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Mvt 1, 6 measures before 9 through 2 after 10
Mvt 3, 22 measures after 36 through 2 after 37
Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition (on piston trumpet)
Opening Promenade, beginning to Figure 2
Prokofiev: Leutenant Kijé, Suite (on cornet or piston trumpet)
Figure 32 through 34 (cornet 1 part)
Figure 73 through end (cornet 1 part)
Ravel: Piano Concerto, G Major
Figure 2 through 3
Respighi: Pines of Rome (on piston trumpet)
11 measures after 2 through 8 before 3 (Tromba I)
8 after 10 through 17 after 10 (Tromba Interna)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (on piston trumpet)
Mvt 4, letter T through U
Mvt 4, letter W through 10 before X
Strauss: An Alpine Symphony (on piston trumpet)
3 measures before 68 through 71
Figure 75 through 76
Figure 91 through 95
Strauss: Don Juan (on piston trumpet)
5 measures after F through 3 before G
5 measures after P through Q
7 measures after Z through 5 after Aa
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (on piston trumpet)
7 measures before 50 through 55 (Trumpet I in Eb)
Figure 42 through 43 (Trumpet 1 in Bb)
Figure 80 through 83 (Trumpet 1 in Bb)
Stravinsky: Petrouchka (1947 version) (on piston trumpet)
1 measure before 135 through 139
Figure 140 through 143
Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale (on piston trumpet)
4 measures after 22 through 23
1 measure before 31 through 32
3 measures after 76 through 1 before 77
5 measures after 96 through 2 after 98
Wagner: Parsifal
Measure 9 through 5 before 3
III. Other Standard Repertoire
Candidates in audition rounds following the Preliminary Round will be responsible for the material listed above, plus other standard repertoire to be determined at the audition. In addition, playing with the brass section may also be a requirement with possible repertoire listed below:

Bartok: Concerto For Orchestra (on piston trumpet)
Mvt 1, measures 313 through 396
Mvt 2, measures 90 through 147
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (on rotary trumpet)
Mvt 2, Letter D through 12 after D
Mvt 4, measures 374 through 395
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 (on rotary trumpet)
Mvt 4, 5 before P through conclusion
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (on rotary trumpet)
Mvt 1, measures 268 through 276
Mahler: Symphony No. 2
Mvt 4 (Chorale), measures 3 through 14
Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Last movement, Chorale, Figure 26 through 27
Mahler: Symphony No. 7
Mvt 1, Figure 65 through 66
Mvt 5, 5 measures before 224 through 3 after 224
Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition (on piston trumpet)
Great Gate at Kiev, Figure 103 through 106
Schumann: Symphony No. 2 (on rotary trumpet)
Mvt 1, beginning to measure 13
Strauss: Don Juan (on piston trumpet)
8 measures after S through 3 after U
7 measures after Z through 5 measures after Aa

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