Nashville Symphony Orchestra violin audition

Audition information
Position
Section second violin
Application deadline
January 4, 2017
Audition date
March 10–13, 2017
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(Posted on November 8, 2016; last updated over 7 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following concerto movements
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major, K. 218
  • Mvt. I without cadenza
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219
  • Mvt. I without cadenza
The first movement — without cadenza — of one of the following concertos: Bartók, Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn Prokofiev No. 2, Sibelius, or Tchaikovsky
First violin orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. III: 99–114
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 17–66
  • Mvt. I: 101–155
  • Mvt. IV: opening–60
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. II: 19–20
  • Mvt. II: 33 to 6 after 38
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 1–99
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: 26–99
  • Mvt. II: 1–27
  • Mvt. IV: 1–78
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • First page
Second violin orchestral excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. V: 265–317
Brahms—Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Mvt. III: 238–274
Rachmaninoff—Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27
  • Mvt. II: 14 after 32 to 4 before 35
Possible sight-reading
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