Grant Park Symphony Orchestra viola audition

Audition information
Position
Section viola (3 openings)
Application deadline
January 25, 2016
Audition date
February 8–11, 2016
Payment
$1,381.28 per week
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(Posted on December 2, 2015; last updated about 9 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following concertos
Bartók—Viola Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Hindemith—Der Schwanendreher
  • Mvt. I
Walton—Viola Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Orchestral excerpts
Bartók—Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1 to 8 before C
  • Mvt. III: 147–197
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Variation 5
  • Variation 7
Mahler—Symphony No. 10
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 1 to 3 after I
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. IV: 134–181
Rachmaninoff—Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27
  • Mvt. II: 33 to 17 before 36
Ravel—Daphnis and Chloé
  • 158–166
  • 196 to 1 after 198
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 15–17
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • Beginning to five before D
Sight-reading
Discussion

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