Trombone Audition
The Ballet West Orchestra announces auditions for the following vacancies:
Principal Trombone
Possible Second Position may also be filled by this audition.
Auditions will be held on
January 25, 2025
Applicants must send a brief one-page resume via email to: BW OPM Seretta Hart, seretta.orchestra@gmail.com
Deadline for resumes is November 25, 2024
Audition materials and excerpts are posted below.
Qualified applicants will be notified via email with more details if invited to audition. The Ballet West audition committee reserves the right to dismiss any candidate not meeting the highest standards.
Ballet West is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
- 1. Bordogni etude #16
- 2. Ravel, Bolero: rhl.10-11
- 3. Mozart, Requiem: 2nd Trombone solo from the Tuba Mirum, m. 1-18.
- 4. Wager, Ride of the Valkyries: rhl. 5 until 3 bars after rhl. 6.
- 5. Mahler 3: rhl 13-17
- 6. Mahler 3: rhl 33-second bar of rhl 34
- 7. Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet rhl. 14-16
- 8. Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet rhl. 64-67
- 9. Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet rhl. 5-6
- 10. Rossini, La Gazza Ladra: rhl 3- 17 bars after Rhl 4
- 11. Stravinsky, Firebird: Infernal Dance: Beginning until 2 bars after rhl 13
- 12. Stravinsky, Firebird: Finale: rhl 17 until the end
- 13. Berlioz, Hungarian March: 2nd trombone part. Six bars before rhl 4 - two bars after Rhl 5.
- 14. Bernstein: West Side Story Symphonic Dances, m. 664-700 "Cool"