Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra violin audition

Audition information
Position
Principal second violin
Application deadline
July 18, 2019
Audition date
August 29–30, 2019
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(Posted on June 14, 2019; last updated over 5 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
The first movement from a Mozart concerto of your choice (complete, with cadenza))
Solo excerpts
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. I: 14–18
  • Mvt. I: C–D
First violin excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. III: 99–114
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 18–66 (B)
  • Mvt. I: E–F
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 88–F
  • Mvt. IV: 33–D
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 1 to 6 after D
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: 1–16
  • Mvt. I: 26–97
  • Mvt. II: 1–27
  • Mvt. IV: 1–104
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 1, “Classical”, Op. 25
  • Mvt. I: 1 to 4 after E
  • Mvt. I: F–H
  • Mvt. II: 1–C
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 1 to 2 before 6
  • Mvt. I: 32 to 3 after 38
Stravinsky—Concerto in E♭, “Dumbarton Oaks, 8.v.38”
  • Mvt. I: 1–40
Possible sight-reading
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