Audition information

Position
Principal viola
Application deadline
February 5, 2023
Audition date
March 13–14, 2023
Weeks in season
40
Payment
$1,539.48 per week
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(Posted on January 1, 2023; last updated over 1 year ago)


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Audition Repertoire
The prelude to one of the following pieces
BachSuite No. 3 for cello
BachSuite No. 4 for cello
BachSuite No. 6 for cello
Solo
MozartSinfonia Concertante, K. 364
  • Mvt. I: 72–223
The first movement of one of the following concertos
BartókViola Concerto
HindemithDer Schwanendreher
WaltonViola Concerto
Orchestral solos
BerliozHarold in Italy
  • Mvt. I: 12 before 3 to 41 after 6
GinasteraVariaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation V: 3235
RavelMa mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Mvt. V: 5 after 2 to 3 after 3
StraussDon Quixote
  • 4 after 14 to 5 after 16
  • 1 after 27 to 34
Vaughan WilliamsFantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
  • I to 6 after L (79–114)
  • 3 after U to 1 before X (198–211)
Orchestral excerpts
BeethovenSymphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–10
  • Mvt. II: 23–37
  • Mvt. II: 49–59
  • Mvt. II: 98–106
  • Mvt. III: 146–213
BrahmsVariations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Variation 5
  • Variation 7
  • Variation 8
MendelssohnA Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: CD
  • Scherzo: E to 11 after I
MozartSymphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. I: 1–66
  • Mvt. IV: 134–181
RavelDaphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
  • 3 after 212 to 216
ShostakovichSymphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 1517
StraussDon Juan, Op. 20
  • Beginning to 13 after C
TchaikovskySymphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: 105–144
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