Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra viola audition

Audition information
Position
Associate principal viola
Application deadline
August 27, 2018
Audition date
October 7–9, 2018
Weeks in season
40
Payment
$1,263 per week
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(Posted on August 10, 2018; last updated over 6 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following solos
Bartók—Viola Concerto
  • Mvt. I: 1–90
Hindemith—Der Schwanendreher
  • Mvt. I: 1 to 8 after M
Walton—Viola Concerto
  • Mvt. I: 1 to 8 before 12
Mozart solo
Mozart—Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364
  • Mvt. I: 72–223
One movement from any of the unaccompanied Bach cello suites or violin sonatas or partitas
Viola solo
Enescu—Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
  • 7–8
Kodály—Háry János Suite
  • Mvt. III: beginning–1
Ravel—Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Mvt. V: solo
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • 4 after 14 to 1 before 18
  • 26 to 3 before 28
  • 1 after 29 to 2 before 34
Tutti excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–10
  • Mvt. II: 49–59
  • Mvt. II: 98–106
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Variation 5
  • Variation 7
  • Variation 8
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: C–D
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. IV: 134–181
Ravel—Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
  • 158–166
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 15–17
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • beginning–E
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. I: “Allegro non troppo” to 5 after C
Chamber music
Dvořák—Quartet No. 12 in F, Op. 96, “American”
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. IV
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