| Re: Few random questions I am not Manny but see two aspects on your question. Concerti appearing for on orchestral auditions, which you sould be prepared to play if you want to get an orchestral job and pieces which you may be required as soloist wether with your "home" orchestra or others...
1. There is few pieces who are appearing on orchestral auditions quite often, at least in Europe...Manny, you can add to this if there is some other pieces required for US orchestral auditions
These are:
A. Honegger: Intrada for trumpet and piano
G. Enescu: Legend for trumpet and piano
A. Jolivet: Concertino for Trumpet, Piano and Strings
H. Tomasi: Concerto for trumpet and orchestra
P. Hindemith: Sonata for trumpet and piano - this is appearing rather on german orchestras auditions.
In Bulgaria (where I live) you would be ussualy required to play O. Bohme concerto for trumpet in F minor.
Some orchestra are just requiring a free choice modern/contemporary piece for C trumpet. In this case you can probably take one of the above.
I think that I have seen once the
Toru Takemitsu's Paths for solo trumpet but this is rather rare.
As far as the soloist engagments are concerned, my experience is that most probably the conductor will ask you about the piece before putting it on the program...unless you are one of these guys like David Guerrier or Hakan Hardenberger who are supposed to play anything in the trumpet repertoire and beyond.
Manny?
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