Vancouver Symphony Orchestra violin audition

Audition information
Position
Principal second violin
Application deadline
December 20, 2021
Audition date
January 24–25, 2022
Weeks in season
42
Payment
$80,500 per year
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(Posted on November 12, 2021; last updated over 2 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
The first movement — including cadenza — of one of the following concertos (with piano accompaniment for final round, without accompaniment in prelim and semifinal rounds)
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major, K. 218
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219
The first movement of a standard concerto from the 19th or early 20th century (no piano accompaniment)
One movement of unaccompanied Bach (sonatas and partitas)
First violin excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. III: 99–114
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. IV: 92–132
Elgar—Enigma Variations
  • Variation II
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 8 before A to 7 after D
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: 26–142
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 1, “Classical”, Op. 25
  • Mvt. II: 1–C
Schumann—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: 1–122
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 1 to 9 before D
Second violin excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. V: 265–342
Brahms—Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Mvt. III: 238–274
Mahler—Symphony No. 9
  • Mvt. I: 8 before 14 to 15
  • Mvt. IV: 1–28
Mozart—Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”, K. 551
  • Mvt. IV: 1–157
Chamber music
Ravel—String Quartet
  • Mvt. I, second violin
Possible sight-reading
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