Audition information

Position
Assistant principal second violin
Application deadline
December 5, 2022
Audition date
January 7–12, 2023
Weeks in season
28
Payment
$1,423.60 per week
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(Posted on November 3, 2022; last updated over 1 year ago)


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Audition Repertoire
One of the following concerto movements
BeethovenViolin Concerto
  • Mvt. I: exposition
BrahmsViolin Concerto
  • Mvt. I: exposition
SibeliusViolin Concerto
  • Mvt. I: exposition (with both cadenzas)
TchaikovskyViolin Concerto
  • Mvt. I: exposition
One movement of your choice from a Bach solo sonata or partita
One of the following concerto movements
MozartViolin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216
  • Mvt. I: exposition
MozartViolin Concerto No. 4 in D Major, K. 218
  • Mvt. I: exposition
MozartViolin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219
  • Mvt. I: exposition
First violin excerpts
BeethovenSymphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. III: “Lo stesso tempo” to 115
BrahmsSymphony No. 4
  • Mvt. III: 1–44
  • Mvt. III: 151–168
  • Mvt. III: 246–357
  • Mvt. IV: 33–80
BrahmsVariations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Variation 5
  • Variation 6
DebussyLa Mer
  • Mvt. II: 35 to 6 after 38
MahlerSymphony No. 5
  • Mvt. IV: pickup to 2 to 1 after 3
MendelssohnA Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 17–99
MozartSymphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: 1–97 (C)
  • Mvt. II: 1–19
  • Mvt. II: 91–125
  • Mvt. IV: 1–42
SchumannSymphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: 1–52
StraussDon Juan, Op. 20
  • 1 to 13 after C
Second violin excerpt
RachmaninoffSymphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27
  • “Meno mosso” before 33 to 15 after 34
Superfinal round
MendelssohnString Quartet Op. 44 No. 2
  • Mvt. I, second violin
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