Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony violin audition

Audition information
Position
Associate concertmaster
Application deadline
February 15, 2016
Audition date
March 7, 2016
Weeks in season
38
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(Posted on December 2, 2015; last updated over 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One movement of an unaccompanied Bach violin sonata or partita
One of the following solos
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major, K. 218
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219
  • Mvt. I: exposition
First movement, including cadenza, of a standard romantic or 20th century concerto
Concertmaster solos
Bach—St. Matthew Passion
  • “Erbame Dich, mein Gott”
Beethoven—Missa solemnis
  • Sanctus: 110–134
Haydn—Symphony No. 103
  • Mvt. II: solo
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • All solos
Tchaikovsky—Swan Lake
  • White Swan solo
First violin excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. I: 76–135
  • Mvt. V: 394–436
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. III: 99–114
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV: 33–80
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. II: 33 to 3 after 38
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 1 to 7 after D
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: 1–99
  • Mvt. II: 1–60
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 1, “Classical”, Op. 25
  • Mvt. I: beginning–H (G.P./key change)
  • Mvt. II: 1–16
Schoenberg—Verklärte Nacht (1943 revised version for string orchestra)
  • 310–341
Schumann—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: 1–55
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 1 to 13 after C
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