Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra viola audition

Audition information
Position
Associate principal viola
Application deadline
June 26, 2017
Audition date
August 21–22, 2017
Weeks in season
46
Payment
$61,820.32 per year
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(Posted on June 7, 2017; last updated almost 7 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
The first movement of a major 20th Century concerto (Bartók, Walton, Hindemith, etc.)
One movement of solo Bach
Orchestral solos
Delibes—Coppelia
  • Act III, No. 7 La Paix
Elgar—Enigma Variations
  • Solos
Enescu—Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation No. 5
Grieg—Holberg Suite
  • Rigaudon
Ravel—Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Mvt. V: solos
Orchestral repertoire
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–10
  • Mvt. II: 49–58
  • Mvt. II: 98–106
  • Mvt. III: 146–213
Berlioz—Roman Carnival Overture
  • 36–66
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 114–137
  • Mvt. I: 194–250
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. III: 282–end
  • Mvt. IV: 41–80
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Variation 5
  • Variation 7
  • Variation 8
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: B–D
  • Scherzo: M–O
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. I: 1–66
  • Mvt. IV: 134–181
Ravel—Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
  • 158–166
  • 212–216
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 15–17
  • Mvt. I: 22–25
  • Mvt. I: 36–39
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 1–48
  • 50–66
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: 80–88
  • Mvt. III: 134–144
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. I: 19–62
  • Mvt. I: 161–199
Wagner—Tannhäuser
  • Overture: 220–309
Possible sight-reading
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