Auditions for Summer Quarter 2008

Stanford Symphony Orchestra
2008 Summer Auditions

Auditions for Summer quarter will be held at Braun Music Center, Room 121 on the following dates:

  • Sunday, July 6th, 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM and 5:30 - 9:30 PM
  • Monday, July 7th, 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM and 5:30 - 9:30 PM

The Stanford Symphony Orchestra’s first rehearsal this quarter is on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 at 7:15 PM on the stage of Dinkelspiel Auditorium.

Registration for auditions is now open at stanfordsymphony.acuityscheduling.com.

The SSO auditions are open to all members of the Stanford community, although students are given priority. SSO also welcomes musicians from the local, non-Stanford community to audition.

Each audition will be 10 minutes long. It consists of three parts:

  • A solo work of your choice. This could be a part of a concerto, sonata, or a solo passage from a major orchestral work.
  • Orchestral excerpts. We have listed audition repertoire for each instrument. You can pick up parts outside Room 121, or download and print them out from this page. If you cannot get your music this way, please e-mail professor Jindong Cai at cai@stanford.edu or Martin Fraile at mfraile@stanford.edu. We will fax or mail the material to you.
  • Conductor's choice. This could be sight-reading of an orchestral excerpt or scales.

Any questions about the auditions may be e-mailed to Jindong Cai at cai@stanford.edu or Martin Fraile at mfraile@stanford.edu.

Following are the orchestral excerpts for auditions:

Violin [Download Sheet Music]

  1. Brahms, Symphony No. 2, last movement, bar 1 to bar 60
  2. Mozart, Symphony No. 41, second movement, bar 1 to downbeat of bar 28

Viola [Download Sheet Music]

  1. Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, second movement, bar 6 after figure 36 to end
  2. Brahms, Symphony No. 4, last movement, letter B to letter D

Cello [Download Sheet Music #1] [Download Sheet Music #2]

  1. Mozart, Overture to Marriage of Figaro. Opening measures.
  2. Beethoven, Symphony No. 2 in D, Opening "Allegro con brio," after Introduction

Bass [Download Sheet Music]

  1. Beethoven, Symphony No. 2 in D. Second movement, beginning with the anacrusis to measure 23
  2. Beethoven, Symphony No. 3 in E-flat. Scherzo movement

Flute and Piccolo [Download Sheet Music]

  1. Brahms, Symphony No. 4 in e. Last movement, flute solo in 3/2 section
  2. (Piccolo) Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4, last movement, bar 1 to letter B
  3. OPTIONAL: Mendelssohn, Midsummer Night's Dream, Scherzo, 2 bars before letter P to end

Oboe [Download Sheet Music]

  1. A steady pitch "a" (= 440hz)
  2. Brahms, Symphony No. 2 in D. Solo in second movement.
  3. Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4, second movement, bar 1 to bar 21

Clarinet [Download Sheet Music #1] [Download Sheet Music #2]

  1. Verdi's Requiem: Sanctus
  2. Brahms, Symphony No. 2 in D. Trio to the third movement
  3. OPTIONAL: Rimsky-Korsakov, Capriccio Espagnol, first movement, letter A to letter B; letter C to end (in A)

Bassoon [Download Sheet Music]

  1. Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4. Movement III, opening to E.
  2. Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5, mov't III
  3. OPTIONAL: Mendelssohn, Midsummer Night's Dream, No. 5, Allegro molto comodo

Horn [Download Sheet Music]

  1. Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 5, solo section at second movement
  2. Brahms, Academic Overture, pick-up to bar 367 to end (in C)

Trumpet [Download Sheet Music]

  1. Brahms, Academic Overture, bar 63 to downbeat of bar 88; pick-up to bar 367 to end (in C)
  2. Bizet, Carmen Suite No. 1, Prelude (in Bb)

Trombone [Download Sheet Music]

  1. Brahms, Symphony No. 1 in C. Closing measures of last movement.
  2. Mozart, Requiem Mass. "Tuba mirum" solo

Tuba [Download Sheet Music]

  1. Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5. Last movement.

Harp [Download Sheet Music]

  1. Rimsky-Korsakov, Capriccio Espagnol. Harp cadenza
  2. OPTIONAL: Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake harp parts

Timpani and Percussion

  1. TBA