Toronto Symphony Orchestra viola audition

Audition information
Position
Section viola
Application deadline
May 1, 2015
Audition date
June 9–10, 2015
Weeks in season
43
Payment
$85,126.24 per year
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(Posted on March 31, 2015; last updated almost 10 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
An unaccompanied Bach prelude of the candidate’s choice
One of the following concerto movements
Bartók—Viola Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Hindemith—Der Schwanendreher
  • Mvt. I
Walton—Viola Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–163
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. II: 28–39
  • Mvt. II: 53–63
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Variation 5
  • Variation 8
Britten—The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Fugue
Bruckner—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 51–83
Copland—Appalachian Spring
  • 6–14
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 1–D
Mozart—The Marriage of Figaro
  • Overture
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 1, “Classical”, Op. 25
  • Mvt. I: 1–C
  • Mvt. I: 8 before I to J
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 15–17
  • Mvt. IV: 107–109
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 11
  • Mvt. III: 99–106
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • beginning–C
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 77–80
  • 94–98
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. I: 19–62
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