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    The document provides excerpts for percussion auditions for the Verbier Festival Orchestra, including requirements for marimba, snare drum, xylophone, timpani, and cymbals. Applicants must prepare selected excerpts and should focus on the first 3-5 minutes of their solo piece. All auditions are unaccompanied and the tuning pitch is A=442 Hz.

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    The document provides excerpts for percussion auditions for the Verbier Festival Orchestra, including requirements for marimba, snare drum, xylophone, timpani, and cymbals. Applicants must prepare selected excerpts and should focus on the first 3-5 minutes of their solo piece. All auditions are unaccompanied and the tuning pitch is A=442 Hz.

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    VERBIER FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA – 2022

    PERCUSSION EXCERPTS

    MARIMBA
    • Solo work of applicant’s choice

    SNARE DRUM
    • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10, Mvt. II – Reh. #98 to End of Movement
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade:
    1) Mvt. III – Letter D to Letter E
    2) Mvt. IV – Letter P to Letter R
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, ‘Scena e Canto Gitano’ – Long Roll + Ten Measures
    • Prokofiev: Liutenant Kijé – Opening to Reh. #2

    XYLOPHONE
    • Kodály: Háry János Suite – Mvt. VI
    • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4, Mvt. III – Five Measures after Reh. #206 to Reh. #208
    • Stravinsky: L’Oiseau de Feu (1910) – Reh. #127 to Reh. #133
    • Messien : Oiseaux Exotiques – Reh. #6 to Reh. #7

    TIMPANI
    • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1, Mvt. IV – Reh. #35 to four Measures before Reh. #37
    • Beethoven : Symphony No. 9, Mvt. I – Measure #513 to End of Movement
    • Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps – Reh. #189 to End

    CYMBALS (OPTIONAL)
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, Mvt. IV – Reh. #270 to End of Movement

    (All orchestral excerpts are available on the following pages of this document)
    AUDITION INFORMATION

    • The tuning pitch of the Verbier Festival Orchestra is A = 442 Hz.

    • All auditions are unaccompanied, and therefore no piano should be used.

    • All applicants MUST read the video guidelines in the “VFO Application Guidelines” document,
    available on the Verbier Festival page of the GetAcceptd website, before starting your
    application or making your video.

    • Applicants will not be required to play the full movement of their selected concerto or solo work
    in the audition. Please focus on performing the first 3-5 minutes of solo playing from the
    movement of your choice.

    SNARE DRUM
    • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10, Mvt. II – Reh. #98 to End of
    Movement
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade:
    1) Mvt. III – Letter D to Letter E
    2) Mvt. IV – Letter P to Letter R
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, ‘Scena e Canto Gitano’ – Long
    Roll + Ten Measures
    • Prokofiev: Liutenant Kijé – Opening to Reh. #2

    XYLOPHONE
    • Kodály: Háry János Suite – Mvt. VI
    • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4, Mvt. III – Five Measures after Reh.
    #206 to Reh. #208

    (Continued)
    • Stravinsky: L’Oiseau de Feu (1910) – Reh. #127 to Reh. #133
    • Messien : Oiseaux Exotiques – Reh. #6 to Reh. #7
    TIMPANI
    • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1, Mvt. IV – Reh. #35 to four Measures
    before Reh. #37

    • Beethoven : Symphony No. 9, Mvt. I – Measure #513 to End of


    Movement
    • Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps – Reh. #189 to End
    CYMBALS (OPTIONAL)
    • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, Mvt. IV – Reh. #270 to End of
    Movement

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