Vacancies
for the 2007–2008 Season

Principal Positions:

Principal Bass

Section Positions:

Second Bassoon

Asst. Principal Horn

Third Horn

Harp

Section First & Second Violin (3)
Section Bass

Sunday, September 30, 2007

NKU Fine Arts Building Rm 126 (ground floor)
Panel: Music Director, Principals (All auditions are screened)

3:00  Principal & Section Bass
4:00  Section Violin               
5:00  Harp                              
7:00  Second Bassoon            
      8:15  Third Horn & Asst. Principal

Starting per service pay for 2007-2008 is $70 for principals, $60 for section
Additional openings in some sections for mileage stipend
(Subscription Programs — avg. 5-7 services)

Audition Repertoire:

Bassoon II:  (All 1st bassoon parts)

Stravinsky             Le Sacre du Printemps (opening solos)
Brahms                 Variations on a Theme of Haydn (Var. V & VI)
Mozart                  Marriage of Figaro Overture (Beginning & recap)
Tchaikovsky          Symphony No. 4 (mvt. II)

French Horn III & Asst. Principal / Utility (2 openings): All 1st horn parts unless noted

Strauss  Till Eulenspiegels Opening Solo
Shostakovich   Symphony No. 5 (mvt I) 36 - 41
Mendelssohn  Symphony No. 3 (mvt II) Horn III 4 before F to 4 after G
Beethoven   Symphony No. 7 (mvt I) m. 89-110
Mendelssohn    Nocturne from Midsummer ... Beginning to A

Section Violin: (First violin parts)

1–2 minutes of unaccompanied Bach (candidate’s choice)

Mozart   Symphony No. 35 “Haffner” (mvt. I) m. 15 - 41
Schumann  Scherzo from Symphony No. 2 m. 1 - 34
Strauss   Don Juan 1st page
Brahms     Symphony No. 1 (mvt. I—introduction)

Principal & Section Bass:

1–2 minutes of unaccompanied Bach (candidate’s choice)

Beethoven   Symphony Nr. 9 (Mvt. IV) Recit.; m. 541-594
Britten     Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Bass variation)
Mozart     Symphony No. 40 (Mvt. I) m. 114-134
Mahler     Symphony No. 1 (Mvt. III solo)

Harp:

2–3 minutes of a concerto or solo work (candidate’s choice)

Britten    The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (Harp var., Horn var. & fugue statement)
Strauss    Salome’s Dance (8 mm before S to V)
Donizetti  Solo and cadenza (in D major) from Lucia di Lammermoor

The committee also reserves the right to ask for sight reading.

If you don’t have access to these standard excerpts, full parts for most selections can be

purchased from Luck’s Music Library [phone: (800) 348-8749]. To reserve an audition slot,

mail, e-mail or fax your resumé to the KSO:

Kentucky Symphony Orchestra
P.O. Box 72810
Newport, KY 41072

Phone: (859) 431-6216
Fax: (859) 431-3097

e-mail: jr@kyso.org