Richmond Symphony Orchestra viola audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant principal viola
Application deadline
August 3, 2015
Audition date
September 1, 2015
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(Posted on July 16, 2015; last updated over 9 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One movement from any of the following concertos
Bartók—Viola Concerto
Hindemith—Der Schwanendreher
Stamitz—Viola Concerto in D Major, Op. 1
Walton—Viola Concerto
Any movement from any unaccompanied Bach suite
Orchestral solos
Elgar—Enigma Variations
  • Mvt. VI: 2 after 20 to 1 after 22
  • Mvt. X: 39 to 4 after 40
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation No. 5
Ravel—Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Mvt. V: 2–4
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • 14–18
  • 29–34
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–106
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Variation 4: 1–F
  • Variation 5
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. I: 13–66
  • Mvt. IV: 134–181
Ravel—Daphnis and Chloé
  • 158–166
  • 212–216
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 15–17
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • beginning–B
  • C to 5 before D
Possible sight-reading
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