Toronto Symphony Orchestra violin audition

Audition information
Position
Associate concertmaster
Application deadline
April 14, 2022
Audition date
May 20–21, 2022
Weeks in season
43
Payment
$85,000 per year
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(Posted on March 22, 2022; last updated almost 3 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
The complete first movement from a Mozart violin concerto
The first movement of one of the following concertos
Bartók—Violin Concerto No. 2
Beethoven—Violin Concerto
Brahms—Violin Concerto
Mendelssohn—Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64
Prokofiev—Violin Concerto No. 2
Sibelius—Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky—Violin Concerto
Concertmaster solos
Bach—St. Matthew Passion
  • “Erbame Dich, mein Gott”
Beethoven—Missa solemnis
Berg—Lulu
  • Violin cadenza, 470–497
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
Strauss—Also Sprach Zarathustra
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. III: 99–114
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 1–B
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 1–B
Elgar—Enigma Variations
  • Variation II
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I: 7–9
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. IV: 16–19
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 8 before A to 7 after D
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: 1–99
  • Mvt. II: 1–54
  • Mvt. IV: 1–104
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 1, “Classical”, Op. 25
  • Mvt. I: 1–H
  • Mvt. II: 1–C
  • Mvt. IV: 1–D
  • Mvt. IV: 3 after J to 9 after N
Schumann—Symphony No. 2
  • Scherzo: beginning to Trio I
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 32 to 3 after 38
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 1 to 13 after C
Strauss—Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Suite
  • No. 4, “Schneider”: complete violin solo
Stravinsky—Apollo
  • Coda: 71–86
Chamber music
Mozart—Divertimento in E♭ Major, K. 563
  • Mvt. I
Possible sight-reading
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