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NAC Orchestra Auditions

CANADA’S NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE ORCHESTRA
ALEXANDER SHELLEY, MUSIC DIRECTOR

Announces auditions for the following vacancies:

PRINCIPAL TIMPANI

National auditions will be held in Ottawa, January 30, 2023
National auditions are open to Canadian Citizens and Permanent Residents of Canada only.

Season: 46 weeks including concerts, broadcasts, opera, ballet, recordings, tours and 5 weeks paid vacation

Salary: Minimum scale, 2022-2023: $2,048 per week (salary for this position to be negotiated)

The members of the National Arts Centre Orchestra are Canadian members of the American Federation of Musicians.

The National Arts Centre Orchestra is a proud partner orchestra of the National Alliance for Audition Support (NAAS).

Audition Repertoire

SOLO:
ELLIOTT CARTER Eight Pieces for Four Timpani, #8, March

ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS:

		BARTOK	Concerto for Orchestra
		BARTOK	Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta
		BEETHOVEN	Symphony No. 1
		BEETHOVEN	Symphony No. 5
		BEETHOVEN	Symphony No. 7
		BEETHOVEN	Symphony No. 9
		BRAHMS	Symphony No. 1
		BRAHMS	Symphony No. 4
		COPLAND	Appalachian Spring
		ELGAR	Enigma Variations – Var. VII
		HINDEMITH	Symphonic Metamorphosis
		NICOLE LIZEE	Bondarsphere – m. 107-128; m. 300-321
		MAHLER	Symphony No. 5
		MARTIN	Concerto for 7 Winds and Timpani
		MOZART	Symphony No. 39
		MOZART	Symphony No. 41
		MOZART	Magic Flute Overture
		PROKOFIEV	Symphony No. 1
		SIBELIUS	Finlandia
		STRAUSS	Burleske
		STRAUSS	Rosenkavalier Suite
		STRAVINSKY	Rite of Spring
		TCHAIKOVSKY	Symphony No. 2
		TCHAIKOVSKY	Symphony No. 4
		TCHAIKOVSKY	Symphony No. 5

Sight reading may be required.

NAC Orchestra Auditions

PRINCIPAL TIMPANI

Audition Repertoire

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