Open orchestra positions
Audition November 2021

Intoxicating, versatile, lively! The Philharmonie Salzburg with its varied and innovative programming with over 100 concerts and more than 70.000 listeners per year invites you to audition.

Vacancies:

  • concert master: in
  • Viola section leader: in (deputy)
  • Violoncello section leader (deputy)
  • Double bass leader: in (deputy)
  • Solo flute (Dep.)
  • Solo oboe (Dep.)
  • Solo clarinet (Stv.)
  • Solo Bassoon (Dep.)
  • High horn (Stv.)
  • Deep horn (Stv.)
  • Solo Trumpet (Dep.)
  • Solo Trombone (Stv.)
  • striking mechanism

If you win the audition, you play at least 25 - 50% (depending on the project choice) of the requested projects in the calendar year 2022. Concertmasters and section leaders also have the opportunity to perform as soloists with the orchestra or as chamber music, for example with ours concert summer (approx. 100 concerts per year).

The fee is paid according to the fee schedule Philharmonic Salzburg 2021.

Audition dates: probably in November 2021

  • November 16, 2021, 9.30 a.m. - 15.00 p.m.
  • November 18, 2021, 9.30 a.m. - 15.00 p.m.
  • November 19, 2021, 9.30 a.m. - 15.00 p.m.

Registration by November 14, 2021, 23:59 p.m .: online
Place of the audition: rehearsal room of the Salzburg Philharmonic, St. Paul, Eduard-Herget-Straße 5, 5020 Salzburg
Correpetition: present, IMPORTANT piano reduction included, 10 minutes before the audition, there is a short rehearsal with the accompanist

Please come 30 minutes before your appointment. (In each case 30 minutes before the appointment are available to you.)

Jury members: Elisabeth Fuchs (artistic director), Teodor Ganev (director of the orchestra office), Jiachen Zhang (violin leader), Harald Fleißner (solo clarinet)

Dates please online in our Audition calendar book:

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Concerts: !! Please bring notes for coaching !!

Optionally, the first movement with cadence from one of the following works:
WA Mozart: Concerto for Violin in D Major, KV 211
WA Mozart: Concerto for violin in G major, KV 216
WA Mozart: Concerto for Violin in A Major, KV 219
and
Optionally, the first movement with cadence from one of the following works:
M. Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1, G minor, op. 26
F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Violin Concerto in E Minor, op. 64
P. Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, D major op. 35

Orchestral Excerpts:

J. Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, op. 68, 2. Movement (bar 90-128, violin I.)
R. Strauss: Don Juan, op. 20 (measure 1-35, measure 50-62, violin I.)
A. Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, 2. Movement (bar 149-163, violin I.)
WA Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E flat major, KV 543, 4. Movement (bar 1-41, violin I.)
WA Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro, Overture (bar 1-58, violin I.)
L. v. Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, op. 60, 4. Movement (measure 1 repetition, violin I.)
R. Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C major, op. 61, 2. Movement (bar 1-48, violin I.)

Solo places:
Bach, Matthew Passion "Give me back my Jesus"
Bach, Christmas Oratorio "Shut up, my heart"
Beethoven, Missa Solemnis
Rimsky-Kosakov, Scheherazade
Brahms, 1. symphony
Strauss, heroic life

Concerts: !! Please bring notes for coaching !!

Optionally, the first movement with cadence from one of the following works:
C. Stamitz: Concerto for Viola in D Major, op. 1
FA Hoffmeister: Concerto for viola and orchestra in D major
and
Optionally, the first movement with cadence from one of the following works:
B. Bartók: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, BB 128
W. Walton: Concert Viola and Orchestra (1929)

Orchestral Excerpts:

A. Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, 2. Sentence (measure 51-83)
G. Mahler: Symphony No. 10, 1. Set (clock 1-15, clock 102-111)
F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: A Midsummer Night's Dream, 2. Sentence: Scherzo (measure 70-93, measure 280-323)
R. Strauss: Don Juan op. 20 (measure 1-22)
L. v. Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major op. 55, 3. Sentence: Scherzo (measure 32-69)
P. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 B minor, 1. Sentence: Allegro non troppo (measure 19-66)
WA Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, KV 550, 4. Sentence (measure 145-187)

Concerts: !! Please bring notes for coaching !!

Optionally, the first movement with cadence from one of the following works:
J. Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, Hob. VIIb: 1
J. Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major, Hob. VIIb: 2
and
Optionally the first movement with cadenza from one of the following cello concertos:
Dvorak, Schumann or Elgar

Orchestral Excerpts:

J. Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, op. 73, 2. Sentence (beginning to measure 15)
WA Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, KV492 (Ouverture, Presto)
L. v. Beethoven: Symphony No. 8, F major, op. 93, 3. Sentence (trio)
L. v. Beethoven: Egmont op. 84, Overture
G. Mahler: Symphony No. 4, G major, 1. Set (clock 11-27, clock 322-335)
R. Strauss: Don Juan, op. 20 (measure 1-letter E)
B. Smetana: The Bartered Bride, Overture (Vivacissimo)

Solo places:

Johannes Brahms: 2. Piano Concerto, 3. Sentence (see orchestra audition Schott ED 7853)
P. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, 2. Act, No. 13 (see orchestra audition Schott ED 7853)
WA Mozart: Abduction from the Seraglio, 2 Act, Aria No. 11 (see orchestra audition Schott ED 7853)
G. Rossini: William Tell Overture (see orchestra audition Schott ED 7853)

Concerts: !! Please bring notes for coaching !!

A freely selectable corner sentence of a concert by K. Dittersdorf or S. Koussevitzky
and
a freely selectable cornerstone of a romantic concert

Orchestral Excerpts:

WA Mozart: Symphony No. 40, KV 550, 1. Set (clock 114-134, clock 191-220)
WA Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, KV492 (Ouverture, Presto)
L. v. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, C minor, op. 67, 3. Sentence (Scherzo)
A. Bruckner: Symphony No. 4, E flat major "Romantic", 4. Set: Finale (measure 155-183, measure 295-338)
F. Schubert: Symphony No. 8, C major, 3. Sentence: Scherzo (measure 1-55)
J. Brahms: Symphony No. 2, D major, 4. Sentence: Allegro con spirito (measure 44-79)
R. Strauss: Don Juan op. 20: Allegro molto con brio (letter CR)

Concerts: !! Please bring notes for coaching !!

WA Mozart: Concerto No.1 G major or No.2 D major, each 1. Set with cadence
and
A freely selectable corner phrase of a romantic concert

Orchestral Excerpts:

A. Dvorák: Symphony No. 9, E minor "From the New World", 1. Set: Allegro Molto (measure 149-376)
S. Prokofieff: Peter and the Wolf, op. 67, The Bird: Allegro
JS Bach: St. Matthew Passion, Aria: For love my Savior wants to die (bar 1-13)
G. Mahler: Symphony No. 9, D major, 1. Sentence (measure 377-390)
F. Mendelssohn B .: A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 61: Scherzo (measure 338-Fine)
M. Ravel: Boléro (see orchestra audition Edition Peters EP 8659)
G. Rossini: William Tell Overture (see orchestra audition Edition Peters EP 8659)
R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's funny tricks (see orchestra audition Edition Peters EP 8659)

Audition Piccolo:

L. v. Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, D minor, op. 125, 4. Sentence (measure 343-431)
D. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9, E-flat major, op. 70, 2. Sentence (measure 286-303)

Concerts: !! Please bring notes for coaching !!

WA Mozart: Concerto for oboe, C major, 1. and 2. sentence
and
R. Strauss, Concerto for Oboe, D Minor, 1. sentence

Orchestral Excerpts:
Brahms: Haydn - Variations (2nd oboe see orchestra book audition Edition Peters EP 8660)
Smetana: Sold Bride - Ouv. (See orchestral book audition Edition Peters EP 8660))
Dvorak: Viloncello Concerto in B minor, 2. Sentence (2, oboe, s. Orchestra book audition Edition Peters EP 8660)
Rossini: The silk ladder-Ouv. (1, oboe, s. Orchestra book audition Edition Peters EP 8660)
Bruckner: Symphony No. 5, 2. Sentence (1, oboe, s. Orchestra book audition Edition Peters EP 8660)
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Symphony No. 3 (“Scottish” 2nd movement, see orchestra book audition Edition Peters EP 8660)
Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio (1: Oboe, see the orchestra book audition Edition Peters EP 8660)

Concerts: !! Please bring notes for coaching !!

WA Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, KV 622
1. Sentence (exposure) and
2. Sentence (the first two phrases, without interlude)
and
CM v. Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 1, f minor, op. 73
1. Sentence (until after the cadence)

Orchestral Excerpts:
L. v. Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, 1. and 2. sentence
J. Brahms: Symphony No. 4, 2. sentence
Z. Kodály: Dances from Galanta
F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: A Midsummer Night's Dream
S. Prokofieff: Peter and the Wolf
F. Schubert: Symphony No. 7, "Unfinished", 2. sentence

Concerts: !! Please bring notes for coaching !!

WA Mozart Bassoon Concerto in B flat major KV 191, 1. Sentence (with cadence) and 2. sentence
and
C. Saint-Saëns Sonata for Basson op. 168, 1. sentence

Orchestral Excerpts:

WA Mozart: Overture to Figaro's Wedding (see Orchestra book audition Edition Peters EP 8662)
L. v. Beethoven: 4. Symphony (see Orchestra book audition Edition Peters EP 8662)
M. Ravel: Bolero (see orchestra book audition Edition Peters EP 8662)
N. Rimsky Korsakov: Sheherazade (see Orchestra book audition Edition Peters EP 8662)
D. Shostakovich: 9. Symphony (4 and 5, set, see book of orchestras audition Edition Peters EP 8662)
B. Smetana The Bartered Bride, Overture (see Orchestra Book Audition Edition Peters EP 8662)

Concerts: !! Please bring notes for coaching !!

WA Mozart: Concerts for horn and orchestra (KV 412 or KV 417 or KV 447 or KV 495), each 1st movement with cadenza
and
A corner phrase from:
R. Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1, op. 11

Audition High Horn:
F. Mendelssohn B .: A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 61, No. 7: Notturno (measure 1-34)
R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, op. 40 (see orchestra audition Edition Peters EP 8663)
R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's funny pranks, op. 28 (see orchestra audition Edition Peters EP 8663)
P. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5, E minor, op. 64, 2. Sentence: Andante cantabile (measure 8-28)
A. Bruckner: Symphony No. 4, E flat major "Romantic", 1. Sentence (measure 3-52)
WA Mozart: Cosi fan tutte (1. Horn) (measure 1-79)
D. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9, op. 70, 3. Set (see Orchestra audition Edition Peters EP 8663)

Concerts: !! Please bring notes for coaching !!

WA Mozart: Concerts for horn and orchestra (KV 412 or KV 417 or KV 447 or KV 495), each 1st movement with cadenza
and
A corner phrase from:
R. Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1, op. 11

Audition Deep Horn:
L. v. Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, 1. Sentence (2. Horn), (measure 86- 121)
L. v. Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, 3. Sentence (4. Horn), (measure 82-120)
L. v. Beethoven: Fidelio Overture (2: Horn, s. Orchestra audition Edition Peters EP 8663)
WA Mozart: Cosi fan tutte (2. Horn) (measure 1-79)
G. Mahler: Symphony No. 9, 1. Sentence (2, horn, beginning to T. 26)
D. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9, op. 70, 3. Set (see Orchestra audition Edition Peters EP 8663)
R. Strauss: The woman without shadow 1. Elevator, 1. Scene (see Orchestra audition Edition Peters EP 8663)

Concerts: !! Please bring notes for coaching !!

A corner phrase from:
J. Haydn: Concerto for trumpet and orchestra, E-flat major, Hob.VIIe
and
JN Hummel: Trumpet Concerto in E flat major

Orchestral Excerpts:

JS Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, VI. Part: No. 64 Choral "Well, you've probably smelled"
G. Mahler: Symphony No. 5, C sharp minor, 1. Phrase "Funeral March" (measure 1-24)
R. Strauss: Don Juan, op. 20: Allegro con brio (bar 2-letter H)
R. Strauss: An Alpine Symphony, op. 64 (letter 75, 91 and 92)
M. Ravel: Bolero (letter 5 and 6)
M. Mussorgsky: Pictures of an exhibition: Beginning
G. Bizet: Carmen foreplay and signal

Concerts: !! Please bring notes for coaching !!

Ferdinand David, Concerto op. 4, in E flat major, 1. Sentence, cadence + 2. sentence
and
A romantic piece of your choice

Orchestral Excerpts:

WA Mozart: tuba mirum (see orchestra book audition Edition Peters EP 8665)
G. Rossini: William Tell (see Orchestra book audition Edition Peters EP 8665)
R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel (see Orchestra book audition Edition Peters EP 8665)
R. Wagner: Valkyrie Ride 3. Elevator, 1. Scene (see Orchestra book audition Edition Peters EP 8665)
N. Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade, 2. Set (see Orchestra book audition Edition Peters EP 8665)
J. Brahms: Symphony No. 2, 1 and 4. Set (see Orchestra book audition Edition Peters EP 8665)
M. Ravel: Bolero (see orchestra book audition Edition Peters EP 8665)
I. Stravinsky: The Firebird (see Orchestra book audition Edition Peters EP 8665)

pool
Hochrainer: from “Cinellen, Big Drum and Other”: No.11

Big drum
High trainers: from "Cinellen, Grosse Trommel, and others": No. 5, from measure 5

Small drum
Lepak: from “50 Contemporary

Snare Drum
Etudes ”No.8 (with triplet phrasing)

timpani
Strauss: A hero life, 2 bars before number 62 to 3 bars after number 69
Tchaikovsky: “Symphony No. 5”: 1st movement, seven bars before letter Z to letter 1

Tambourine
Britten: “Four Sea Interludes”: 4th movement, from number 10 to number 11

xylophone
Britten, the young person's guide to the orchestra: variation M

drumset
Swing, funk, rock-beat