Auditions 2024-2025 Season
All audition spots have been filled and we are not accepting any more resumes at this time.
Openings
Section Violin
Principal Trombone
2nd Trombone
Bass Trombone
3rd & 4th Horns
Only the highest quality applicants will be accepted for this audition.
The Plano Symphony Orchestra is a per service orchestra. Approximately 51+ services are planned for the year beginning September 25, 2024. Per service rates are $159.00/service for Principal & $134.00/service for Section. All applicants must demonstrate U.S. Citizenship or legal eligibility to accept employment with the Plano Symphony Orchestra.
At this time, PSO will only be auditioning for the above positions.
Auditions to be held:
Saturday, September 7, 2024
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Royal Lane Baptist Church, 6706 Royal LN., Dallas TX 75230
PSO does not supply music/excerpts at the audition.
Plano Symphony Orchestra’s General Audition Procedures & Audition Repertoire
- Candidates are required to send a one-page resume to be considered for an invitation to audition.
- The Audition Committee reserves the right to dismiss any candidate not meeting the highest artistic standards.
- Selected candidates will be notified with an audition time by Jim Gasewicz, Personnel Manager.
- Audition times will be assigned to musicians on Saturday, August 24, 2024
- We are tentatively scheduled to listen to violins first in the morning, followed by horns & trombones after lunch in the afternoon.
- For the audition excerpts, a minimum of 3 excerpts from the scanned music plus a solo of choice are required (Violin auditionees are required to play Strauss’ Don Juan in addition to the required list.
EXCERPTS TO PREPARE
VIOLIN (first violin part):
Solo of Choice
CHOOSE THREE of the following excerpts:
R. Strauss Don Juan Op. 20 (first 2 pages)
Mendelssohn Overture from Midsummer Night’s Dream (beginning to bar 99)
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 (I movement, ms. 1 to 110)
Mozart Symphony No. 39 (II movement no repeats)
Mozart Marriage of Figaro Overture (beginning to letter A)
Prokofiev Classical Symphony (I movement, beginning to 4 bars after E)
Smetana Bartered Bride Overture (beginning to bar 53)
3rd HORN:
Solo Piece: Mozart Horn Concerto No.2 or 4 (exposition only)
CHOOSE THREE of the following excerpts:
Brahms Symphony No. 4 (I mov: ms 73-79 / 163-183/ II mov: Opening Solo)
Mahler Symphony No. 1 (I mov: reh. 25 to 6 ms. After 26 / IV mov. Reh. 1 to 5 ms. After 6)
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 (assai animato from B to 2 before C, vivace non troppo 16 after A to B and 4 before F to end)
Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 (I mov: 10 ms. Before reh. 18 to 1 ms. After 21 / Reh 36 to 5 ms. After 38)
Strauss Don Juan (17 ms. Before O to 7 ms. After O / 4 ms. Before Y to 1 ms. Before Z)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 (beginning to ms. 20)
4th HORN:
Solo Piece: Mozart Horn Concerto No.2 or 4 (exposition only)
CHOOSE THREE of the following excerpts:
Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (III mov. Ms. 82 to 123)
Mahler Symphony No. 1 (III mov. Reh. 13 to Reh. 15)
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 (vivace non troppo: 16 after A to B and 4 before F to end)
Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 (I mov. 10 ms. Before Reh 18 to 1 ms. After 21 / reh. 36 to 5 ms. After 38 / II mov. Reh 56 to Reh. 57)
Strauss Don Juan (17 ms. Before O to 7 ms. After O / 4 ms. Before Y to 1 ms. Before Z)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 (beginning to ms. 20)
TROMBONE:
Solo Piece: Candidate’s choice
CHOOSE THREE of the following excerpts:
R. Korsakov Russian Easter Overture (II trombone solo M+N)
Rossini La Gazza Ladra Overture (Allegro section. Reh 3 to 4, reh 7 to 8, and reh 9 to end)
Rossini William Tell Overture (from C to D and from P to 6 before Q)
Respighi Feste Romane (solos Trombone 1. IV mov. 1 before Reh. 37 to reh. 38)
Ravel Bolero (solos, 3 after 10 to 11)
Brahms Symphony No. 1 (4th Mov. Letter C to bar 60)
Mozart Requiem (Tuba Mirum tenor trombone solo)
Verdi La Forza del Destino (8 bars after letter C to letter D)
BASS TROMBONE:
Solo Piece: Candidate’s choice
CHOOSE THREE of the following excerpts:
Berlioz The Damnation of Faust (Hungarian March, 1 before J to L)
Wagner Ride of the Valkyries (Act III, Scene 1 B major section, from Reh. 3 to 2 after 6 Also 5 after 10 to 12)
Mozart Requiem (Kyrie)
Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (IV mov. Ms. 595 to 626)
Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 (I mov: 3 after 29 to 32 / IV mov. 97 to 98, 1 ms after 100 to 2 before 101 and 109 to 112)
Rossini La Gazza Ladra (Allegro, from Reh. 3 to Reh. 4 and from reh 7 to reh 8)
Rossini William Tell Overture (From letter C to 9 after D and from O to 7 before Q)
