Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra viola audition

Audition information
Position
Principal viola
Application deadline
March 4, 2022
Audition date
March 28, 2022
Weeks in season
38
Payment
$46,092.48 per year
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(Posted on February 24, 2022; last updated about 2 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
The exposition from the first movement of one of the following concertos
Bartók—Viola Concerto
Hindemith—Der Schwanendreher
Walton—Viola Concerto
Solo
Mozart—Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364
  • Mvt. I: 72–158
Orchestral solos
Enescu—Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
  • 1 after 7 to 8
Ravel—Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Mvt. V: 2–4
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • 29–34
Vaughan Williams—Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
  • I to 6 after L (79–114)
Orchestral 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
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV: 41–80
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: C–L
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. IV: 134–181
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 1, “Classical”, Op. 25
  • Mvt. I: 3 before 10 to 15
Rachmaninoff—Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27
  • Mvt. II: 33–34
Ravel—Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
  • 158–170
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 15–17
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 77 to 4 after 79
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • beginning–D
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. I: 19–66
Chamber music (to be played with members of the RPO)
Beethoven—String Trio in C Minor, Op. 9, No. 3
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Possible sight-reading
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