National Arts Centre Orchestra (Canada) viola audition

Audition information
Position
Section viola
Application deadline
December 15, 2018
Audition date
February 16–18, 2019
Weeks in season
46
Payment
$1,988 per week
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(Posted on November 27, 2018; last updated over 6 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Two contrasting movements from a Bach cello suite
The first movement of a major viola concerto (played with accompanist)
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Variation 5
  • Variation 7
  • Variation 8
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV
Copland—Appalachian Spring
  • 6 to 1 before 14
Glinka—Ruslan and Lyudmila
  • Overture: beginning–A
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. IV: 134–181
Schoenberg—Verklärte Nacht
  • Viola 1, 162–186
Strauss—Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Suite
  • 106–end
Possible sight-reading
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