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Co-Principal Double Bass
Audition by invitation

For information and application contact Helen Farr, orchestra librarian
tel.: (+47) 5150 8837, fax: (+47) 5150 8838, e-mail: helen.farr@sso.no
address: Stavanger Symfoniorkester, Bjergsted, 4007 Stavanger, Norway

Application for audition can be sent by post, fax or e-mail.

Please enclose a recording electronic or on CD or DVD of the 1st movement of 2 contrasting concerti with cadenzas.

Last date for applications is 1. November 2010.

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Obligatory programme for audition:
Vanhal: Concerto for Double Bass 1. & 2. mvts with cadenzas or Mozart Bassoonconcerto 1. & 2. mvts
+ 1. mvt. from a concerto of your choice (not classical).
These can be played in either solo- or orchestra-tuning

Orchestra excerpts:
Beethoven: Symphony no. 9, Presto, Recitativ bars 8 to 29, 38 to 47 & 56 to 90
Stravinsky: Pulcinella, 7. mvt. - bass solo
Haydn:Symphony nr. 31, 4. mvt., var. 7 - bass solo
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije suite, Romance - bass solo
Prokofiev: Ivan le Terrible, no. 17 Adagio - bass solo
Mahler: Symphony no. 1, 3. mvt, bar 3 to bar 10, solo
Mahler: Symphony no. 2, 1. mvt., beginning to bar 38
Shostakovich: Symphony no. 15, Adagio - bass solo
Strauss, R.: Ein Heldenleben: excerpts
Wagner: Die Walküre, Overture - beginning to no. 6
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, 3. mvt. - bars 85 to 111
Brahms: Symphony no. 1, 4. mvt. - from K to L
Bruckner: Symphony no. 7, 1.mvt. - bars 123 to 145
Schubert: Octet in F-major D.803, 1. mvt. - bars 178 to 193