Grant Park Symphony Orchestra violin audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant concertmaster
Application deadline
March 24, 2023
Audition date
April 24–26, 2023
Weeks in season
10
Payment
$1,717.93 per week
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(Posted on January 28, 2023; last updated about 1 year ago)

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Audition Repertoire
The exposition and development from the first movement of a Mozart concerto
The first movement — with cadenza — from a major 19th- or 20th-Century concerto
Concertmaster orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Missa solemnis
  • Sanctus: 110–134
  • Sanctus: I–end
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. II: solo
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. II: solos
  • Mvt. III: solos
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 2 after 22 to 31
Orchestral excerpts
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 392–440
  • Mvt. II: 74–103
Copland—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. IV: 90–93
Mahler—Symphony No. 9
  • Mvt. I: 6 after 11 to 13
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 17–99
Montgomery—Strum
  • 225–end
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: 1–142
Schumann—Symphony No. 2
  • Scherzo
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 1 to 13 after C
  • 3 after Q to 4 after U
Possible sight-reading
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