Sarasota Orchestra viola audition

Audition information
Position
Principal viola
Application deadline
August 25, 2015
Audition date
September 10–11, 2015
Payment
$50,799.91 per year
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(Posted on July 19, 2015; last updated almost 9 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
The exposition of the first movement of a major concerto
Two contrasting movements of a Bach cello suite or Bach violin sonata or partita
Orchestral solos
Enescu—Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
Ravel—Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • 4 after 14 to 5 after 16
  • 26–34
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–9
  • Mvt. II: 23–31
  • Mvt. II: 99–106
  • Mvt. III: 146–161
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Variation 5
  • Variation 8
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 118–132
  • Mvt. II: 49–55
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: C–D
  • Scherzo: 2 before G to G
  • Scherzo: 3 after K to 4 before L
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. I: 13–29
  • Mvt. I: 59–66
  • Mvt. IV: 1–37
  • Mvt. IV: 134–146
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 15–17
  • Mvt. II: 55–56
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • beginning–D
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: 119–144
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. I: 19–38
Chamber music
Beethoven—String Quartet Op. 59, No. 3
  • Mvt. IV
Ravel—String Quartet
  • Mvt. I
Possible sight-reading
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