Vancouver Symphony Orchestra violin audition

Audition information
Position
Associate concertmaster
Application deadline
August 20, 2018
Audition date
September 25, 2018
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(Posted on June 8, 2018; last updated almost 7 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
The first movement — including cadenza — of any Mozart concerto
The first movement of a standard concerto from the 19th, 20th, or 21st century
One movement of unaccompanied Bach (sonatas and partitas)
First violin solos
Bach—St. Matthew Passion
  • No. 39: 1–8
Beethoven—Missa solemnis
  • Sanctus: 110–184
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. II: 91–128
Dvořák—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. II: D to 8 after D
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. I: 14–18
  • Mvt. I: C–D
  • Mvt. I: G–H
  • Mvt. II: 1–5
  • Mvt. III: 4 before L to 8 after M
  • Mvt. IV: 8–9
  • Mvt. IV: 29
  • Mvt. IV: 25 before the end to the end
Tchaikovsky—Swan Lake
  • 1 to 6 before 6 (White Swan solo)
First violin excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. III: 3–18
  • Mvt. III: 43–58
  • Mvt. III: 99–114
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 1–70
Elgar—Enigma Variations
  • Variation II
Mahler—Symphony No. 10
  • Mvt. I: 16–36
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 8 before A to 7 after D
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: 1–142
  • Mvt. II: 1–52
  • Mvt. IV: 1–104
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 1, “Classical”, Op. 25
  • Mvt. IV
Schumann—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: 1 to 14 after K
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • beginning to D
Chamber music
Ravel—String Quartet
  • Mvt. I, first violin
Possible sight-reading
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