The Philadelphia Orchestra viola audition

Audition information
Position
Section viola
Application deadline
August 15, 2016
Audition date
September 27 through October 1, 2016
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(Posted on June 8, 2016; last updated over 7 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following concertos, complete
Bartók—Viola Concerto
Hindemith—Der Schwanendreher
Walton—Viola Concerto
One of the following concerto movements
Hoffmeister—Viola Concerto
  • Mvt. I with cadenza
Stamitz—Viola Concerto in D Major, Op. 1
  • Mvt. I with cadenza
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Variation 5
  • Variation 7
  • Variation 8
Bruckner—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 51–83
Copland—Appalachian Spring (suite for 13 instruments)
  • 6 to 1 before 14
Mahler—Symphony No. 10
  • Mvt. I: 1–15
  • Mvt. I: 104–112
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 1–D
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. I: 41–66
  • Mvt. IV: 134–181
Ravel—Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
  • 158–166
  • 212–216
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • beginning–D
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 77 to 4 after 79
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. I: “Allegro non troppo” to 62
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