Assistant Principal Oboe - The United States Marine Band
Assistant Principal Oboe - The “President’s Own” United States Marine Band
Deadline: September 3, 2025
Audition: September 9, 2025
Auditions for Assistant Principal Oboe will be held on Tuesday, September 9, 2025, at the Marine Barracks Annex, 1053 7th Street, SE in Washington, DC. If not completed on Tuesday, auditions will continue Wednesday, September 10. Applicants should therefore be available to perform on both days.
A completed Applicant Fact Sheet and résumé must be submitted by Wednesday, September 3. Confirmed applicants will be placed on the audition list upon the Marine Band’s receipt of these items. Applicants may request an audition time slot in either the morning or the afternoon, which will be given on a first come, first served basis. The Marine Band will attempt to honor the time frame that is requested. The audition committee reserves the right to dismiss any candidate not meeting the highest professional standards
“The President’s Own” United States Marine Band is America’s oldest continuously active professional musical organization. Its mission is unique: to provide music for the President of the United States and the Commandant of the Marine Corps. Marine Band musicians perform frequently at the White House in small ensembles, chamber orchestra, concert band, and as soloists. The Marine Band performs for a wide variety of commitments, to include public concerts, recording sessions, tours, chamber music recitals, military ceremonies, and state functions
Today’s Marine Band is composed of roughly 170 of the nation’s finest musicians and support staff. Those selected for the United States Marine Band and Marine Chamber Orchestra are exempt from recruit training and are appointed to the rank of Staff Sergeant (E-6) under a contract “for duty with the United States Marine Band only.” The winner of the audition will receive instructions regarding enlistment procedures.
The audition will consist of the following:
A) Solo: Oboe Concerto in C, K. 314/271k (Mozart) – 1 st movement exposition, mm. 32–97
B) Excerpts from the following (enclosed):
Oboe 1
Prelude from Le Tombeau de Couperin (Ravel)
“Rufford Park Poachers” from Lincolnshire Posy (Grainger/Fennell)
Concerto for Orchestra – 3 rd movement (Higdon)
Overture to La Scala di seta (Rossini)
Suite from Pulcinella (Stravinsky)
Partita – 2 nd and 3rd movements (Walton/Patterson)
Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Opus 56, “Scottish” – 2 nd movement (Mendelssohn)
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat, Opus 55, “Eroica” – 2 nd movement (Beethoven)
Don Juan (Strauss)
Come Sunday (Thomas)
Oboe 2
*Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Opus 56a (Brahms)
*Concerto for Wind Ensemble – 4 th movement (Day)
*Concerto for Orchestra – 2 nd movement (Bartók)
Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Opus 70, B. 141 – 2 nd movement (Dvořák)
*to be played with principal oboist
To be played with the Marine Woodwind Quintet:
Wind Quintet in C, Op. 79 (Klughardt) – 1st movement, beginning to repeat sign – no repeat
C) Sight-reading
