Pacific Symphony viola audition

Audition information
Position
Principal viola
Application deadline
August 17, 2016
Audition date
September 17, 2016
Payment
$63,493 per year
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(Posted on July 8, 2016; last updated almost 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo Bach
Bach—Suite No. 2 for cello
  • Prelude
Concerto
Bartók—Viola Concerto
  • Mvt. I: 1–80
Solo excerpts
Enescu—Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
  • 7–8
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation No. 5
Grieg—Holberg Suite
  • Final movement solos
Kodály—Háry János
  • Mvt. III: 1 to 1 after 1
Ravel—Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • All solos
Strauss—Don Quixote
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. IV: 133–B
  • Mvt. IV: 286–321
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV: B–D
Bruckner—Symphony No. 7
  • Mvt. II: 1–B
  • Mvt. II: P–R
Holst—The Planets
  • Mercury
Mozart—Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”, K. 551
  • Mvt. IV: 298–end
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 15–17
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 1 before 85 to “Sehr ruhig”
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 1 to 17 after C
  • 14 before W to W
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: E–K
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