Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra viola audition

Audition information
Position
Section viola (2 openings)
Application deadline
August 8, 2022
Audition date
October 23–27, 2022
Payment
$2,062.30 per week
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(Posted on July 16, 2022; last updated almost 3 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following concerto movements
Bartók—Viola Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Hindemith—Der Schwanendreher
  • Mvt. I
Walton—Viola Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Also the following solo
Mozart—Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364
  • Mvt. II 1–50
A prelude of your choice from a J. S. Bach cello suite
Orchestral excerpts
Bartók—The Miraculous Mandarin
  • 8 before 7 to 8 after 7
Berlioz—Roman Carnival Overture
  • 36–66
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. IV: 1–A
  • Mvt. IV: H–I
Bruckner—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 155–187
Copland—Appalachian Spring
  • 6–14
Mahler—Symphony No. 10
  • Mvt. I: Beginning to 1
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: C–D
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. I: 141–172
  • Mvt. IV: 134–181
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 1, “Classical”, Op. 25
  • Mvt. IV
Ravel—Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
  • 158 to 3 after 163
  • 5 after 212 to 216
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 3 before 45 to 4 after 49
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 1–36
  • C to 17 after C
Wagner—Tannhäuser
  • Overture: K to 11 before L
Possible sight-reading
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