Video pre-audition info below, please read carefully before applying.

Questions regarding this position or audition by email to anders.brasetvik@ofo.no.

• Probespiel – 9. Mai 2023 - 10. Mai 2023
  Oslo Konserthus
  Munkedamsveien 14
  0115 Oslo (Norwegen)
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• 1st round on May 9th
• 2nd and 3rd round on May 10th

• Dittersdorf: Concerto no 2 D major, 1st movement with cadenza and 2nd movement

OR

• Vanhal: Concerto C major, 1st movement with cadenza and 2nd movement

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• Bottesini: Concerto no 2 a minor, 1st movement

OR

• Koussevitzky: Concerto e minor, 1st movement

Orchestra tuning required in all rounds

BACH

Violin concerto E major

2nd movement, bar 1-10

BEETHOVEN

Symphony no 5

3rd movement from the beginning to bar 218

BERLIOZ

Symphonie Fantastique

Hexenrundtanz, upbeat to bar 241-320

BRAHMS

Symphony no 2

4th movement, bar 244 - letter M

BRITTEN

March from Variations on a theme by Frank Bridge

BRITTEN

Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

Variation H

MAHLER

Symphony no 2

1st movement, from the beginning to bar 18 after rehearsal number 1

MOZART

Symphony no 39

1st movement, bar 13-21 and 40-97; 4th movement, bar 105-137

MOZART

Symphony no 40

1st movement, bar 115-138

SCHUBERT

Symphony no 8 C major D944

Scherzo, bar 1-31 and 105-151

SHOSTAKOVICH

Symphony no. 5  

1st movement, reh. no 22 - 4 bars before reh. no 27

STRAUSS 

Ein Heldenleben

Rehearsal number 9-11, 66-70 and 77-78

Chamber music:

DVORAK

Quintet

1st movement

MOZART

Eine kleine Nachtmusik

Romanze (2nd movement)

Invited candidates will be provided a PDF with orchestra excerpts.

Orchestra tuning required in all rounds of the audition.

Where did you first learn of this vacancy?

Videodateien der Bewerber*innen werden angezeigt, sofern vorhanden. Ersetzt nicht das Live-Event (empfohlen).

We strongly advise all applicants to upload a video audition containing the three orchestral excerpts specified below. Our jury will review applications only after the deadline. Questions whether individual merits will suffice for an invitation will not be answered before this time. 

Musicians that currently substitute regularly with the Oslo Philharmonic are exempt from the video requirements.

Excerpts to be recorded in this order and performed in one continous, unedited take. Orchestra tuning is required.

MOZART

Symphony no 39

1st movement, bar 40-97

MOZART

Symphony no 40

1st movement, bar 115-138

STRAUSS 

Ein Heldenleben

Rehearsal number 9-11