Toronto Symphony Orchestra viola audition

Audition information
Position
Associate principal viola
Application deadline
June 1, 2017
Audition date
June 23–24, 2017
Payment
$85,126.24 per year
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(Posted on May 8, 2017; last updated almost 7 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
An unaccompanied Bach prelude of the candidate’s choice
Solo
Stamitz—Viola Concerto in D Major, Op. 1
  • Mvt. I: exposition
One of the following solos
Bartók—Viola Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Hindemith—Der Schwanendreher
  • Mvt. I
Walton—Viola Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Solo orchestral excerpts
Enescu—Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
  • 7–8
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation No. 5
Ravel—Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Mvt. V: 2–4
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–163
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. II: 28–39
  • Mvt. II: 53–63
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 17–26
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Variation 5
  • Variation 8
Britten—The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Fugue
Mahler—Symphony No. 10
  • Mvt. I: 104–111
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 1–D
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. I: 41–66
  • Mvt. IV: 134–181
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 1, “Classical”, Op. 25
  • Mvt. I: 1–C
  • Mvt. I: 8 before I to J
Ravel—Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
  • 158–166
  • 2 after 212 to 216
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 15–17
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • beginning–C
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 77–80
  • 94–98
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. I: 19–62
Chamber music
Mozart—Divertimento in E♭ Major, K. 563
  • Mvt. I
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