New York City Ballet viola audition

Audition information
Position
Section viola
Application deadline
July 1, 2014
Audition date
September 15–17, 2014
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(Posted on June 3, 2014; last updated about 9 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solos
Bartók—Viola Concerto
  • Mvt. I: 1–90 (Serly edition)
Mozart—Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364
  • Mvt. I: 72–158
  • Mvt. II: 16–53
Excerpts
Adams—Harmonielehre
  • Pickup to 399 to 412
Barber—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. III: pickup to 7 to 2 after 9
Bernstein—Fancy Free
  • Second beat of 600 to 634
Britten—The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Variation F
Hindemith—The Four Temperaments
  • First variation, melancholic: 7 before 17 to 18
  • First variation, melancholic: 4 before 19 to 4 after 19
  • First variation, melancholic: 10 before 21 to 4 before 21
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 17–D
  • Scherzo: E–G
  • Scherzo: K–L
Shostakovich—Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 35
  • Mvt. IV: 5 before 58 to 2 before 59
  • Mvt. IV: 65 to 7 after 65
Stravinsky—Agon
  • 539–552
Stravinsky—Apollo
  • Coda: 71 to 1 after 79
  • Coda: 3rd bar of 86 to 1 before 93
Tchaikovsky—Serenade for Strings, Op. 48
  • Mvt. II: 4 after D to E
  • Mvt. III: 4 before B to 10 after B
  • Mvt. IV: 12 after G to 13 after I
Chamber music
Beethoven—String Quartet Opus. 18, No. 4
  • Mvt. II
Borodin—String Quartet No. 2
  • Mvt. III
Possible sight-reading
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