Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony violin audition

Audition information
Position
Concertmaster
Application deadline
May 27, 2013
Audition date
October 5, 2013
Weeks in season
38
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(Posted on April 17, 2013; last updated over 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One movement of an unaccompanied Bach violin sonata or partita
One of the following solos
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major, K. 218
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Mozart—Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219
  • Mvt. I: exposition
First movement, including cadenza, of a standard romantic or 20th century concerto
Concertmaster solos
Bach—St. Matthew Passion
  • “Erbame Dich, mein Gott”
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. II: 90–end (solo at E)
Haydn—Symphony No. 103
  • Mvt. II: solo
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • All solos
Stravinsky—Pulcinella Suite
  • Mvt. II: solos
Tchaikovsky—Swan Lake
  • White Swan solo
Excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. III: 99–114
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: “Allegro” after A to B
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV: 33–80
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 1 to 7 after D
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: “Allegro” to 99
  • Mvt. II
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 1, “Classical”, Op. 25
  • Mvt. I: beginning–H (G.P./key change)
  • Mvt. II: 1–16
Schumann—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. II: first page
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 1 to 13 after C
Possible sight-reading
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