Greenville Symphony Orchestra violin audition

Audition information
Position
Concertmaster
Application deadline
April 10, 2018
Audition date
May 29, 2018
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(Posted on March 12, 2018; last updated about 6 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following concerto movements
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216
  • Mvt. I with cadenza
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major, K. 218
  • Mvt. I with cadenza
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219
  • Mvt. I with cadenza
The first movement — with cadenza — from a major 19th or 20th Century concerto of your choice
Violin solos in orchestral music
Bach—St. Matthew Passion
  • “Erbame Dich, mein Gott”
Beethoven—Missa solemnis
  • Benedictus: 111–end
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • All solos
Rimsky-Korsakov—Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34
  • Solos
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. III: 111–113
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. II: 1 before 57 to 59
Strauss—Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
  • Mvt. IV, “Entry and Dance of the Tailors”: all solos
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 22–39
  • 106 to the end
Tchaikovsky—Swan Lake
  • No. 4: solos
  • Act II, No. 5: 26 to 20 after 31
First violin tutti excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. III: 99–114
Mahler—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: 17 before 14 to the end
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. II
  • Mvt. IV
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 1, “Classical”, Op. 25
  • Mvt. I: 1–62
  • Mvt. IV: 1–42
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 1 to 14 after D
  • S to 4 after U
  • 12 before W to X
  • Z–CC
Chamber music (final round)
Mozart—Divertimento No. 1 in D Major, K. 136
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