Kansas City Symphony viola audition

Audition information
Position
Associate principal viola
Application deadline
September 13, 2013
Audition date
October 21–22, 2013
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(Posted on August 26, 2013; last updated about 7 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo Bach — prelude of any cello suite
Solo concerto — first movement of a standard viola concerto
Principal excerpts
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation V: 32–35
Ravel—Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Mvt. V: 5 after 2 to 3 after 3
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • 4 after 14 to 7 after 17
  • 2 after 29 to 2 before 34
Tutti Excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: Beginning to 127
  • Mvt. IV: 286–330
Berlioz—Roman Carnival Overture
  • Pickup to 37 to 60
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Variation 5
  • Variation 7
  • Variation 8
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. I: 41–66
  • Mvt. IV: 134–end
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: second bar of 15 to 17
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • Beginning to five before D
  • R to 8 before T
Chamber music round
Mozart—String Duo No. 1 in G Major, K. 423
  • First movement
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