Requirements for Audition
Associate Principal Clarinet
October 2016
The NZSO tunes at A440. Auditions must be unaccompanied.
Solo (unaccompanied)
01 – Mozart
Clarinet Concerto – 1st movement (beginning until bar 128)
Clarinet Excerpts
02 – Beethoven
Symphony No.4, 2nd movement (3 excerpts)
03 – Beethoven
Symphony No.4, 4th movement
04 – Beethoven
Symphony No.6, 1st movement
05 – Beethoven
Symphony No.6, 2nd movement (2 excerpts)
06 – Beethoven
Symphony No.6, 3rd movement
07 – Beethoven
Symphony No.8, 3rd movement
08 – Brahms
Symphony No.4, 3rd movement (2 excerpts)
09 – Kodaly
Dances of Galanta (2 excerpts)
10 – Mendelssohn
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Scherzo (5 excerpts)
11 – Prokofiev
Peter and the Wolf
12 - Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, 2nd movement
13 - Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, 3rd movement
14 - Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, 4th movement
15 – Schubert
Symphony No.8 (Unfinished Symphony), 2nd movement (2 excerpts)
16 – Shostakovich
Symphony No.9,2nd movement and 3rd movement (2 excerpts)
17 – Respighi
The Pines of Rome, 3rd movement (2 excerpts)
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Eb Clarinet Excerpts
18 – Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique, 5th movement
19 – Ravel
Bolero
20 – Ravel
Piano Concerto in G, 1st movement (4 excerpts)
21 – Ravel
Piano Concerto in G, 3rd movement (2 excerpts)
22 – Strauss
Till Eulenspiegel (3 excerpts)
23 – Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring (4 excerpts)
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:
• “01 Mozart Clarinet solo.mov
• “02a Beethoven 4 2nd movement excerpt 1.mov”
• “02b Beethoven 4 2nd movement excerpt 2.mov”
• “02c Beethoven 4 2nd movement excerpt 3.mov”
• “03 Beethoven 6 1st movement.mov”
• “19 Ravel Bolero.mov”
• etc.
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