Audition for CO-PRINCIPAL TIMPANI / TUTTI PERCUSSION

SWEDISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
MUSIC DIRECTOR DANIEL HARDING
Audition for CO-PRINCIPAL TIMPANI / TUTTI PERCUSSION April 29-30, 2024 Stockholm

Last day of application:January 14 2024

To qualify for the audition in Stockholm we ask for a video recording, containing:

Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier, Molto con moto to 5 bars after 71
Beethoven: Symphony 9, bar 513-547
Delecluse: Etude no. 1
Shostakovich: The Bolt
Norberg: Etude for tambourin

Click here for the music­

The music is to be performed in this order, in one continuous, unedited recording.

Please upload the recording on e.g. Youtube so you can enclose the link in the application form. The application can’t be submitted without two attachments: CV and this link.

This will be regarded as 1st round, after which the jury will decide who they will invite to the audition on April 29-30, 2024 in Berwaldhallen, Stockholm.

­Audition material Timpani :
Hernqvist: Melody of Love

Excerpts from :

Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
Beethoven: Symphony no. 5, 7 and 9
Brahms: Symphony no. 4
Britten: Nocturne, Young persons guide to the orchestra
Hindemith: Symphonic metamorphoses
Mahler: Symphony no. 7
Mozart: The magic flute
Sibelius: Finlandia
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 4
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps

Audition material for percussion:

Bach: Partita no. 3 for violin, part 4, menuet 1, played on marimba.
Håkansson: Etude for cymbals
Leosson: Etude for triangle
Lylloff: Århusetude for snaredrum
Ragtime Robin for xylophone

Snaredrum: Prokofiev: Liutenenat Kijé
Shostakovitch: Symphony no. 11
Xylophone:
Kabalewski: The comedians
Shostakovitch: The golden age
Stravinsky: Les noces

Glockenspiel: Dukas: The Sorcerers Apprentice
Mozart: The magic flute

Vibraphone:

Bernstein: Cool

Cymbals:

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto no. 2
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Symphony no. 4

Tambourin: Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
Dvorák: Carneval Ouverture
Grieg: Peer Gynt

Gran Cassa:

Mahler: Symphony no. 3
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps

The music for the audition will be sent out together with the invitation in the end of January.

The employment
We offer a full-time permanent contract.
Further details can be obtained from Gunnar Eklund, Orchestra Coordinator gunnar.eklund@sr.se Union enquiries should be addressed to union representatives:

Kristina Lignell (SYMF) kristina.lignell@sr.se Olle Markström (SMF)olle.markstrom@sr.se

Welcome with your application!

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