Requirements for Audition

Principal Piccolo

October 2016

The NZSO tunes at A440. Auditions must be unaccompanied.

Solo (unaccompanied)

01 - Vivaldi C Major Piccolo Concerto Op. 44, No 11

a) 1st movement (exposition only),
and b) 2nd movement (complete with repeats)

02 - Mozart either G major Flute Concerto, 1st movement exposition,

or D major Flute Concerto, 1st movement exposition

1st Flute Excerpts

03 - Ravel Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2

(fig. 176 to 2 bars after 179)

04 - Mendelssohn Midsummer Night’s Dream, Scherzo

(2 bars before P to end of movement)

05 - Beethoven Leonore Overture No.3

(solo in allegro between E & F)

06 - Brahms Symphony No.4, 4th movement

(bars 89-105)

2nd Flute excerpts

07 - Dvorak Symphony No. 9 (New World), 1st movement

a) 8 bars before fig.9 to 1 bar after fig.9,
b) 9 bars after fig.10 to 18 bars before fig.11, and
c) fig.12 for 8 bars

08 - Ravel Ma Mere l’Oye Sleeping Beauty, 1st movement

(opening 8 bars)

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09 - Ravel Piano Concerto in G, 1st movement

(opening 16 bars)

10 - Bartok Concerto for Orchestra, 3rd movement, Elegy

a) bars 29-34
b) 107-111, and
c) 123-128

11 - Ravel Ma Mere l’Oye

a) 2nd movement (fig.7-8);
b) 3rd movement (fig 1 to 4 bars before fig. 3)

12 - Rossini Semiramide Overture

(bars 107-111, 132-145, 190-195, 329-337)

13 - Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4

a) Scherzo (bars 162-170, 194-197, 365-398);
b) Finale (bars 249-end)

14 - Beethoven Symphony No.9, Finale

(bars 343-431)

15 - Shostakovich Symphony No.9, 2nd movement

(bar 286 to end of movement)

16 - Shostakovich Symphony No.6, 1st movement

(bars 40-48)

17 - Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade
a) 2nd movement (fig. N – fig. O);
b) 3rd movement (fig.G – fig.H);
c) 4th movement (fig.U – 28 bars after fig.V)

File names
If sending a recorded audition, to enable us to easily directly play any excerpt, please label
each file individually as per these example filenames:
• “01a Vivaldi 1st movement.mov”
• “01b Vivaldi 2nd movement.mov”
• “11a Ravel Ma Mere 2nd movement.mov”
• “14 Beethoven 9.mov”
• etc.