Application process: By 13th of May via email with a brief professional CV sent to our Orchestra Manager, Éva Sóvágó, at sovago.eva@concertobudapest.hu

Audition: 20th of May, friday, 3 pm 

Location of the audition: Concerto Budapest Zeneház/Music House, addres: 1094 Budapest, Páva utca 10-12.Candidates are required to present the following works:

Round I
J.S. BACH:
G minor Adagio and Fugue
or C major Adagio and Fugue
or A minor Grave and Fugue
and Paganini: Caprice of your choice

Round II
Bartok, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Sibeliusconcertos first movement with cadenza, second and third movement with cadenza

Round III
Beethoven sonata of your choice

Orchestra solos:
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade – solo parts
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis – Sanctus
Richard Strauss: A Hero’s Life – solo parts
Richard Strauss: Zarathustra – solo parts

Orchestra excerpts:
Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E-flat major, K. 543
Beethoven: Symphony No 9.
Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream suite – Scherzo
Bartok: Concerto –5th movements
Schumann: Symphony No.2 – 2nd movements
Strauss: Don Juan

The orchestra excerpts will be sent to all applicants by e-mail. Piano accompanist will be available at the audition.

Please send your resume to the following email address sovago.eva@concertobudapest.hu

Application process: By Friday, 13th of May via email with a brief professional CV sent to Andrea Gyenes at gyenes.andrea@concertobudapest.hu

Time and date of the audition: Friday, 20th of May, 10 am

Location of the audition: Concerto Budapest Zeneház/Music House, address: 1094 Budapest, Páva utca 10-12.

The audition consists of the following:

Round I:
Orchestral excerpts

Round II:
Mozart: Violin Concerto, 1st movement with Cadence (K.216 / K.218 / K.219)
Free of choice Beethoven sonata 1st movement, or Scherzo and Finale

Orchestral excerpts:
Mozart: Symphony No. 39, E flat major, KV 543 – 2nd and 4th movement
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 – 3rd and 4th movement
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 – 3rd and 4th movement
Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila overture
Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night’s dream – Scherzo
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 – 1st movement
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, Op. 25 "Classical" - 4th movement
Bartók: Concerto – 5th movement

After receiving the application material, the scores of all the excerpts will be sent to the candidates as pdf attachments of the response email.

Piano accompanist will be available at the audition.

Application process: By Monday, 9 May via email with a brief professional CV sent to our Orchestra Assistant, Lajos Tóth, at lajos.toth@concertobudapest.hu

Time and date of the audition: Monday, 16 May 2022, 3 pm

Location of the audition: Concerto Budapest Zeneház/Music House, addres:1094 Budapest, Páva utca 10-12.

The audition consists of the following:

Round I (behind screen):
Viola Concerto by Stamitz or Hoffmeister - Movement 1 with cadenza
Orchestra excerpts (from the list below)   

Round II:
Orchestra excerpts
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream - from bar 17 until rehearsal letter “D”
R.Strauss: Don Juan - from the beginning until 5 bars before the rehearsal letter “D”
Mozart: Haffner Symphony KV 385 - Movement 4, from 125 to bar 181
Glinka: Rusland and Ludmila – overture - from the beginning to rehearsal number 3
Bartók: Concerto – Movement 4, from bar 42 to bar 61                                             
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 – Movement 1, from rehearsal number 15 to 17
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin - sempre vivace from rehearsal number 62 to 66

After receiving the application material, the scores of all the excerpts will be sent to the candidates as pdf attachments of the response email. At the audition, the Orchestra provides piano accompaniment.

Application process: By Friday, 29 April via email with a brief professional CV sent to our Orchestra Manager, Éva Sóvágó, at sovago.eva@concertobudapest.hu

Time and date of the audition:  Saturday, 7 May 2022, 1 pm

Location of the audition: Concerto Budapest Zeneház/Music House, address: 1094 Budapest, Páva utca 10-12.

The audition consists of the following:

Round I: 
W.A.Mozart: Bassoon Concerto in B-flat major, Movements 1 and 2    

Round II:
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro – overture
Bartók: Concerto, Movement 2, Play of the couples, Part 2 and Part 3
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, Movement 2
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Movement 4
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, Movement 4
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique – excerpts
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
Haydn: Symphony No. 88
Mozart: The Magic Flute - overture (parts for Second Bassoon)
Smetana: The Bartered Bride

For contrabassoon:
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Dohnányi: Variations on a Nursery Song
Ravel: Ma mère l'Oye (Mother Goose) Suite, Movement 4
Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Strauss: Salome

After arrangements with the candidate, the Orchestra provides them with a contrabassoon and a rehearsal room. At the audition itself, the Orchestra provides piano accompaniment.

After receiving the application material, the scores of all the excerpts will be sent to the candidates as pdf attachments of the response email.

The application process: By Monday, 2 May 2022 via email with a brief professional CV sent to our Orchestra Assistant, Lajos Tóth, at lajos.toth@concertobudapest.hu

Time and date of the audition:Monday, 9 May 2022, 3 pm

Location of the audition: Concerto Budapest Zeneház/Music House, Grand Hall, address: 1094 Budapest, Páva utca 10-12.

The audition consists of the following:

Round I – behind screen:
J. Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major, Movements I and II,  with a B-flat trumpet without a cadenza
Beethoven: Leonore-overture No. 3
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (from the beginning to bar 24, from bar 278 to bar 293)

Round II:

Orchestral excerpts:
Bizet: Carmen - Prelude
R. Strauss: An Alpine Symphony, 3rd trumpet (from rehearsal number 65 until the 3rd bar after rehearsal number 67)
R. Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica, 3rd trumpet (from rehearsal 89 to rehearsal number 90)
Mahler: Symphony No. 3, Movement 3 (post horn solo, from rehearsal number 14 until rehearsal number 16)
Stravinsky: Petrushka, (Dance of the Ballerina)
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major, Movement I (from rehearsal number 2 to rehearsal 3)
Bartók: Concerto, Movement 5, 1st trumpet (from bar 211 to bar 255), 2nd trumpet (from bar 201 to bar 234)
Bach: Christmas Oratorio, Aria No.8

After receiving the application material, the scores of all the excerpts will be sent to the candidates as pdf attachments of the response email.

At the audition, the Orchestra provides piano accompaniment.

Application process: By Monday, 9 May via email with a brief professional CV sent to our Orchestra Assistant, Lajos Tóth, at gyenes.andrea@concertobudapest.hu

Time and date of the audition: Monday, 16 May 2022, 3 pm

Location of the audition: Concerto Budapest Zeneház/Music House, addres:1094 Budapest, Páva utca 10-12.

The audition consists of the following:

Round I:

Haydn: Cello Concerto in D Major, Mvt.1 with cadenza

Orchestra excerpts:
Beethoven: Sympony No. 3, Mvt. 4, parts
Beethoven: Sympony No. 4, Mvt. 4, parts
Beethoven: Sympony No. 5, Mvt. 2, parts
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Mtv.2, parts
Bartók: Concerto, Mtv.5, parts
Verdi: Requiem, Offertorio, parts
Tchakovsky: Sympony No 4, Mtv.2, parts

Round II:

Dvořak: Cello Concerto, Mtv. 1 or 3
OR
Schumann: Cello Concerto, Mtv. 1 or 3

Solo with orchestra:
Liszt: A Major Piano Concerto, parts
Haydn: Symphony No. 4 „Hornsignal”, 2nd version for solo
Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony for Strings in C Minor, Mtv. 3 and 4, parts
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op 83, Mtv 3, solo cello, parts
Rossini: Guillaume Tell, ouverture, 1st solo, parts

After receiving the application material, the scores of all the excerpts will be sent to the candidates as pdf attachments of the response email.  At the audition, the Orchestra provides piano accompaniment.