Kansas City Symphony viola audition

Audition information
Position
Principal viola
Application deadline
September 17, 2021
Audition date
October 25–26, 2021
Weeks in season
42
Payment
$78,067 per year
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(Posted on December 7, 2019; last updated almost 3 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
The prelude from one of the six Bach cello suites
The first movement of either: Bartók, Walton, or Hindemith concerto
Orchestral solo excerpts
Britten—Peter Grimes
  • Passacaglia: 1–1
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation V: 32–35
Ravel—Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Mvt. V: 5 after 2 to 3 after 3
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • 2 after 29 to 2 before 34
Tutti Excerpts
Bartók—Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
  • Mvt. II: 324 to 392 (viola 1)
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–106
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Variation 5
  • Variation 7
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV: B to 4 before D
Copland—Appalachian Spring Suite
  • 6 to 1 after 10
Mahler—Symphony No. 10
  • Mvt. I: 1–1
  • Mvt. I: 12–13
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 9 after H to 4 before L
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. IV: 134–181
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 15–17
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 77 to 4 after 79
  • Pickup to 94 to 2 after 97
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. I: 19–62
Chamber music
Mozart—String Duo No. 1 in G Major, K. 423
  • First movement
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