Baltimore Symphony Orchestra viola audition

Audition information
Position
Associate principal viola
Application deadline
March 10, 2020
Audition date
April 23–27, 2020
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(Posted on February 5, 2020; last updated over 4 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
A prelude from any unaccompanied Bach cello suite
The first movement from one of the following
Bartók—Viola Concerto
Hindemith—Der Schwanendreher
Walton—Viola Concerto
Orchestral solo excerpts
Enescu—Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
  • 1 after 7 to 8
Ravel—Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Mvt. V: solo
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • 4 after 14 to 1 before 18
  • 29–34
Orchestral tutti excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–10
  • Mvt. II: 49–59
  • Mvt. II: 98–106
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Variation 5
  • Variation 7
  • Variation 8
Bruckner—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 51–83
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: B–D
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. I: 41–66
  • Mvt. IV: 134–181
Ravel—Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
  • 158–161
  • 212 to 1 after 216
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: second bar of 15 to 17
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • beginning–D
Chamber music repertoire
Mozart—String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465, “Dissonance”
  • Mvt. I
Possible sight-reading
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