Charlotte Symphony Orchestra viola audition

Audition information
Position
Principal viola
Application deadline
September 13, 2013
Audition date
November 3, 2013
Weeks in season
37
Payment
$1,260 per week
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(Posted on August 13, 2013; last updated over 9 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
The first movement of a concerto of the candidate’s choice
One movement from any unaccompanied Bach suite
Orchestral solos
Berlioz—Harold in Italy
  • Mvt. I: 12 before 3 to 13 after 13
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation V: 32–39
Ravel—Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Mvt. V: 6 before 3 to 3 after 3
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • 4 after 14 to 18
  • 26 to 3 before 28
  • 29–34
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–10
  • Mvt. II: 98–106
Berlioz—Roman Carnival Overture
  • Pickup to 3 after 1 to 6 before 4
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 64–71
  • Mvt. III: 1–A
  • Mvt. III: 125–139
  • Mvt. III: 294–317
  • Mvt. IV: 41–80
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Variation 5
  • Variation 7
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: beginning–D
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. IV: 134–181
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 15–17
  • Mvt. I: 3 after 22 to 25
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • beginning–D
Possible sight-reading
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