Title: Audition Day: Your Guide for a Successful Orchestral Cello Audition

Instrumentation: Cello

Author: Blaise Dejardin

Illustrations: Jeffrey Curnow

Publisher: Opus Cello

Size: 8.5" x 11".  111 pgs.

Contents, Part I: Audition Preparation

• Pick A Winning Repertoire
• Master Your Practice Plan
• Orchestral Excerpts
• The Audition Tape
• Performance Under Pressure
• Mock Auditions
• The Week Before the Audition
• The Day Before the Audition
• Audition Day
• The Tenure Process
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Reading Resources

Contents, Part II: Orchestral Excerpts

• Symphony No. 5, Movement 2 - Ludwig van Beethoven
• Symphony No. 8, Movement 3 - Ludwig van Beethoven
• Symphony No. 9, Movement 4 - Ludwig van Beethoven
• Roman Carnival Overture - Hector Berlioz
• Symphony Fantastique, Movement 5 - Hector Berlioz
• Symphony No. 2, Movement 2 - Johannes Brahms
• Symphony No. 3, Movement 3 - Johannes Brahms
• Haydn Variations, Variations I & V - Johannes Brahms
• Symphony No. 7, Movement 1 - Anton Bruckner
• La Mer, Movement 1 - Claude Debussy
• Enigma Variations, Variation XII - Edward Elgar
• Symphony No. 2, Movement 2 - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 5, Movement 2 - Gustav Mahler
• Symphony No. 6, Movement 4 - Gustav Mahler
• Midsummer Night's Dream, Scherzo - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Symphony No. 35, Movement 4 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Symphony No. 41, Movement 4 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2 - Maurice Ravel
• La Valse - Maurice Ravel
• Symphony No. 3, Movement 1- Camille Saint-Saens
• Overture to The Bartered Bride - Bedrich Smetana
• Also Sprach Zarathustra, Excerpt 1 - Richard Strauss
• Also Sprach Zarathustra, Excerpt 2 - Richard Strauss
• Don Juan, Excerpt 1 - Richard Strauss
• Don Juan, Excerpt 2 - Richard Strauss
• Don Juan, Excerpt 3 - Richard Strauss
• Ein Heldenleben, Excerpt 1 - Richard Strauss
• Ein Heldenleben, Excerpt 2 - Richard Strauss
• Symphony No. 4, Movement 2 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Symphony No. 6, Movement 2 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Requiem, Offertorio - Giuseppe Verdi
• Das Rheingold - Richard Wagner
• Overture to Tannhauser - Richard Wagner
• Prelude to Tristan und Isolde - Richard Wagner