Boston Symphony Orchestra violin audition

Audition information
Position
Concertmaster
Application deadline
February 3, 2020
Audition date
March 30 through April 1, 2020
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(Posted on November 27, 2019; last updated about 5 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Any Mozart violin concerto
Solo
Brahms—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. I
A violin concerto from by Bartók, Berg, Britten, Hindemith, Prokofiev, Schoenberg, Sessions, Shostakovich, or Stravinsky
Concertmaster solos and first violin orchestra passages
Bach—St. Matthew Passion
  • “Erbame Dich, mein Gott”
Beethoven—Missa solemnis
  • Sanctus
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
Debussy—La Mer
Dvořák—Symphony No. 8
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 5
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
Schubert—Symphony No. 2
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
Strauss—Also Sprach Zarathustra
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
Strauss—Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
  • The Tailor’s Dance
Strauss—Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Tchaikovsky—Swan Lake
  • White Swan pas de deux
Chamber music with BSCP
Sight-reading
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