Audition information

Position
Section viola
Application deadline
August 5, 2022
Audition date
September 7, 2022
Weeks in season
36
Payment
$25,337 per year
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(Posted on July 13, 2022; last updated almost 2 years ago)


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Audition Repertoire
First movement from a standard viola concerto (with cadenza)
The prelude of an unaccompanied J. S. Bach suite
Orchestral excerpts
BeethovenSymphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–10
  • Mvt. II: 49–59
  • Mvt. II: 98–106
BerliozRoman Carnival Overture
  • Pickup to 3 after 1 to 1 after 4
BrahmsVariations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Variation 5
  • Variation 7
  • Variation 8
MendelssohnA Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: beginning–D
  • Scherzo: EG
MozartSymphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. I: 1–66
  • Mvt. IV: 134–181
RavelDaphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
  • 158170
  • 212216
ShostakovichSymphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 1517
StraussDon Juan, Op. 20
  • beginning–D
TchaikovskySymphony No. 6
  • Mvt. I: 19–74
Possible sight-reading
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