Knoxville Symphony Orchestra violin audition

Audition information
Position
Concertmaster
Application deadline
October 28, 2016
Audition date
November 14, 2016
Weeks in season
35
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(Posted on September 12, 2016; last updated over 7 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following solos
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216
  • Mvt. I with cadenza
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major, K. 218
  • Mvt. I with cadenza
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219
  • Mvt. I with cadenza
The first movement—with cadenza—of a standard Romantic concerto
Orchestral solos
Bach—St. Matthew Passion
  • “Erbame Dich, mein Gott”
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. II: 1 before E to the end
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. I: opening solo
  • Mvt. I: solo beginning at G
  • Mvt. II: opening solo
  • Mvt. III: solo before L to M
  • Mvt. IV: both opening solos
  • Mvt. IV: solo after Z to the end
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 22–39
Stravinsky—L’historie du soldat
  • Tango
  • Valse
  • Ragtime
Tchaikovsky—Swan Lake
  • Act II, No. 13: 26–32
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 8 after A to C
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. III: 99–114
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 1–53
  • Mvt. II: 74–102
Copland—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. IV: 90–93
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. II: 33–39
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. II: 1–27
  • Mvt. IV: 1–41
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 1, “Classical”, Op. 25
  • Mvt. I: 1–H
Schumann—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: 1–54
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 1 to 13 after C
Possible sight-reading
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