Baltimore Symphony Orchestra violin audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant concertmaster
Application deadline
August 29, 2014
Audition date
October 15–20, 2014
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(Posted on July 25, 2014; last updated almost 10 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One movement from the Bach solo sonatas and partitas
One of the following Mozart concertos
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major, K. 218
  • Mvt. I with cadenza
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219
  • Mvt. I with cadenza
One of the following concerto movements
Beethoven—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. I with cadenza
Brahms—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. I with cadenza
Dvořák—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. I with cadenza
Mendelssohn—Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64
  • Mvt. I with cadenza
Sibelius—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. I with cadenza
Tchaikovsky—Violin Concerto
  • Mvt. I with cadenza
Orchestral solos
Bach—St. Matthew Passion
  • “Erbame Dich, mein Gott”
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. II: 90–end (solo at E)
Dvořák—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. II: D to 8 after D
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • All solos
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. II: pickup to 57 to 59
Strauss—Also Sprach Zarathustra
  • 7 after 26 to 2 before 29
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • All solos
Tchaikovsky—Swan Lake Suite, Op. 20a
  • Mvt. IV (Scene): pickup to 3 after 1 to 2
First violin orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. III: 99–114
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 392–end
  • Mvt. IV: 33–80
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. II: 19–20
  • Mvt. II: 33–39
Mahler—Symphony No. 10
  • Mvt. I: 20 to 2 before 23
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 17–99
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. IV: 1–41
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 1, “Classical”, Op. 25
  • Mvt. I: 1–12 (H)
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • First page
Chamber music
Mozart—Divertimento in E♭ Major, K. 563
  • Mvt. II
Possible sight-reading
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