Reading Symphony Orchestra viola audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant principal viola
Application deadline
April 20, 2015
Audition date
May 14, 2015
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(Posted on March 26, 2015; last updated about 10 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following Bach movements
Bach—Suite No. 1 for cello
  • Prelude
Bach—Suite No. 3 for cello
  • Prelude
A movement from a standard twentieth-century concerto
Excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II
Berlioz—Roman Carnival Overture
  • 36–66
Elgar—In the South (Alassio), Op. 50
  • 4 after 34 to 40
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation No. 5
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. IV: 8 after 45 to 2 after 46
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: C–D
  • Scherzo: 9 after H to L
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 2 after 15 to 17
Possible sight-reading
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