National Philharmonic (United States) violin audition

Audition information
Position
Concertmaster
Application deadline
May 20, 2019
Audition date
June 11–12, 2019
Payment
$14,000 per year
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(Posted on April 1, 2019; last updated about 5 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following solos
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major, K. 218
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219
  • Mvt. I: exposition
The first movement of one of the following standard Romantic or 20th-Century concertos (Certain exceptions to these suggested concerto choices may be granted but require advance approval. Contact Kyle Schick for approval.)
Beethoven—Violin Concerto
Brahms—Violin Concerto
Mendelssohn—Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64
Prokofiev—Violin Concerto No. 1
Prokofiev—Violin Concerto No. 2
Sibelius—Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky—Violin Concerto
Excerpts
Bach—St. Matthew Passion
  • “Erbame Dich, mein Gott”: 1–A
  • “Erbame Dich, mein Gott”: pickup to 4 before B to C
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: 1–69
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. II: solo
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 1–B
Copland—Appalachian Spring
  • 2 before 9 to 3 after 10
Dvořák—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. II: solo
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. IV: 1–A
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. III: solo before L to 8 after M
  • Mvt. IV: the first two cadenzas
Schumann—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: 1–54
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 1 to 13 after C
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