New York City Ballet viola audition

Audition information
Position
Section viola (2 openings)
Application deadline
November 25, 2016
Audition date
January 29–31, 2017
Weeks in season
24
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(Posted on November 10, 2016; last updated over 7 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Mozart—Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364
  • Mvt. I: 72–158
  • Mvt. I: 187–223
  • Mvt. II: 16–53
The first movement of a viola concerto of your choice
Excerpts
Bernstein—Fancy Free
  • 599–634
Britten—The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Variation F
Delibes—Coppelia
  • Act III: viola solo
Hindemith—The Four Temperaments
  • First variation, melancholic: 7 before 17 to 18
  • First variation, melancholic: 4 before 19 to 4 after 19
  • First variation, melancholic: 10 before 21 to 4 before 21
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 17–D
  • Scherzo: E–G
  • Scherzo: K–L
Prokofiev—The Prodigal Son
  • 5 after 70 to 4 after 71
  • 82–86
Shostakovich—Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 35
  • Mvt. IV: 5 before 58 to 2 before 59
  • Mvt. IV: 65 to 7 after 65
Stravinsky—Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra
  • 70–75
  • 1 before 78 to 2 before 80
Stravinsky—Apollo
  • Coda: 71 to 1 after 79
  • Coda: 3rd bar of 86 to 1 before 93
Stravinsky—Agon
  • 539–552
Tchaikovsky—The Nutcracker
  • No. 4, “Scene dansante”: 7 before 30 to 4 after 30
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. V: 153–164
Tchaikovsky—Serenade for Strings, Op. 48
  • Mvt. III: 4 before B to 10 after B
  • Mvt. II: 4 after D to E
Chamber music
Borodin—String Quartet No. 2
  • Mvt. III: 1–D
Haydn—String Quartet in D Major, Op. 76, No. 5
  • Mvt. I
Possible sight-reading
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