San Francisco Symphony violin audition

Audition information
Position
Associate concertmaster
Application deadline
March 1, 2022
Audition date
May 23 through June 21, 2022
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(Posted on January 28, 2022; last updated almost 2 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following solo Bach pieces
Bach—Solo Sonata No. 2 in A minor
  • Mvt. I
Bach—Sonata No. 3 for Solo Violin, BWV 1005
  • Mvt. I
Solo
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major, K. 218
  • Mvt. I: 1–208
The first movement of one of the following concertos
Bartók—Violin Concerto No. 2
Beethoven—Violin Concerto
Brahms—Violin Concerto
Glazunov—Violin Concerto
Mendelssohn—Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64
Prokofiev—Violin Concerto No. 2
Sibelius—Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky—Violin Concerto
First violin solo excerpts
Bach—St. Matthew Passion
  • “Erbame Dich, mein Gott”
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. II: 90–105
Haydn—Symphony No. 6, “Le matin”
  • Mvt. II: 18–104
  • Mvt. IV: 56–84
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • All solos
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 15
  • Mvt. I: all solos
Strauss—Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Suite
  • Mvt. IV
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • All solos
Stravinsky—Apollo
  • 20–24
Tchaikovsky—Swan Lake Suite, Op. 20a
  • Mvt. IV (Scene): 1–2
  • Mvt. IV (Scene): 3–4
  • Mvt. IV (Scene): 5 to 6 before 6
First violin orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV: 1–231
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. II: 19–39
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
  • Mvt. I
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 1, “Classical”, Op. 25
  • Mvt. IV
Schoenberg—Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9
  • 60–77
Schumann—Symphony No. 2
  • Scherzo
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
Possible sight-reading
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