Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra viola audition

Audition information
Position
Section viola (4 openings)
Application deadline
October 4, 2021
Audition date
November 28 through December 1, 2021
Payment
$1,945.78 per week
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(Posted on September 21, 2021; last updated over 2 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following concerto movements
Bartók—Viola Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Hindemith—Der Schwanendreher
  • Mvt. I
Walton—Viola Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Also the following solo
Mozart—Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364
  • Mvt. I: exposition
A prelude of your choice from a J. S. Bach cello suite
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. IV: 1–A
  • Mvt. IV: H–I
Bruckner—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 155–187
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: C–D
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. IV
Ravel—Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
  • 158 to 3 after 163
  • 5 after 212 to 216
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 15–17
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 1–36
  • C to 17 after C
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 3 before 45 to 4 after 49
Wagner—Tannhäuser
  • Overture: K to 11 before L
Possible sight-reading
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