Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra violin audition

Audition information
Position
Second assistant concertmaster
Application deadline
December 14, 2019
Audition date
January 22–23, 2020
Weeks in season
40
Payment
$51,235 per year
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(Posted on November 27, 2019; last updated over 4 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following concerto movements
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216
  • Mvt. I: exposition and cadenza
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major, K. 218
  • Mvt. I: exposition and cadenza
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219
  • Mvt. I: exposition and cadenza
Also the first movement from a Romantic or 20th-Century concerto
First violin orchestral parts
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 11 after D to 2 after F
  • Mvt. IV: 8 before B to D
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. II: 6 before 34 to 5 before 39
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 17–99
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: 1–14
  • Mvt. I: 26–104
  • Mvt. II: 1–27
  • Mvt. IV: 1–105
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • First page
Tchaikovsky—The Nutcracker
  • Overture: 5 after F to the end
Orchestral solos
Bach—St. Matthew Passion
  • “Erbame Dich, mein Gott”: 1–26
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. II: 90–end
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. I: 14–18
  • Mvt. II: 1–5
  • Mvt. III: “Lento” before L to 8 after M
Strauss—Also Sprach Zarathustra
  • 7 after 26 to 29
Tchaikovsky—Swan Lake Suite, Op. 20a
  • Mvt. IV (Scene): 1 to 6 before 6
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