BASS AUDITIONS

For FOOSA 2024, double bass applicants should include in their audition videos the following:

Solo: One solo work or one movement from a Concerto or a Sonata (with or without piano) of the participant’s choice that best demonstrates the level of their playing.

Required excerpts: click here for scans

a. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, movement 3 (mm. 1-18, mm. 53-100. Trio: beginning to letter B)

b. Mozart: Symphony No. 40 movement 1, (pickup to measure 115-138, 191-225.), Movement 4, (mm. 33-54)

c. Mahler: Symphony No. 1, movement 3 (mm. 3-10)

d. Britten: Young Person’s Guide to The Orchestra (variation H)