VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Bramwell Tovey, Music Director
announces the following vacancy for the 2011/2012 season
PRINCIPAL TUBA
(one year position September 2011 – June 2012)
National Auditions will be held Wednesday March 30, 2011, in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Current wages and conditions for this position:
Weeks: 38 weeks (includes 3 vacation weeks)
Salary: $53,247.50
Benefits: life and disability insurance, dental plan, AFM/EPW pension - 10%
The musicians of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra are Canadian members of the American Federation of Musicians.
PLEASE DO NOT MAKE ANY NON-REFUNDABLE TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS UNTIL YOU ARE A CONFIRMED CANDIDATE.
Interested applicants should send a resume including a telephone number no later than March 1, 2011 to:
Lawrence Blackman
Personnel Manager
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
601 Smithe Street
Vancouver, B.C. V6B 5G1
Fax applications accepted: (604)684-9264
E-mail applications preferred: audition@vancouversymphony.ca
(please put “tuba audition” in the subject line)
Orchestral Excerpts
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (Tuba 1, Mvmts 4 & 5)
Berlioz: Hungarian March
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (Mvmt 4)
Gershwin: An American in Paris
Holst: The Planets (Jupiter)
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Overture)
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 (Mvmt 1)
Respighi: Fontana di Roma (Fontana di Trevi)
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 99 (Mvmt 3)
Tchaikovsky: Petrouchka (Peasant with Bear)
Wagner: Die Meistersinger (Overture)
Wagner: Die Walkure (Ride of the Valkyries)
Wagner: Lohengrin (Prelude to Act 3)
Section Playing
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 (Mvmt 4)
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (Mvmt 5)
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Great Gate of Kiev)
Shostakovich: Festive Overture
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 (Mvmt 4)
Verdi: La Forze del Destino (Overture)
There will be no piano accompaniment.
Sight Reading May Be Required.
FOLLOW UP:
Excerpts to the second round were:
Midsummer Night's Dream
Petrouchka
Symphonie Fantastique
Bruckner 7
Fountains of Rome