New York City Ballet viola audition


Audition information

Position
Section viola
Application deadline
July 1, 2015
Audition date
September 19–21, 2015
Weeks in season
26
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(Posted on June 8, 2015; last updated over 9 years ago)


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Audition Repertoire
Solos
BartókViola Concerto
  • Mvt. I: 1–76 (Serly edition)
MozartSinfonia Concertante, K. 364
  • Mvt. II: 16–53
  • Mvt. I: 72–223
Excerpts
AdamsHarmonielehre
  • Pickup to 399 to 412
BrittenThe Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Variation F
HindemithThe Four Temperaments
  • First variation, melancholic: 7 before 17 to 18
  • First variation, melancholic: 4 before 19 to 4 after 19
  • First variation, melancholic: 10 before 21 to 4 before 21
MendelssohnA Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 17–D
  • Scherzo: EG
  • Scherzo: KL
ProkofievThe Prodigal Son
  • 5 after 70 to 4 after 71
  • 8286
RietiLa Sonnambula
  • 109 to 3 after 112
ShostakovichConcerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 35
  • Mvt. IV: 5 before 58 to 2 before 59
  • Mvt. IV: 65 to 7 after 65
StravinskyAgon
  • 539–552
StravinskyApollo
  • Coda: 71 to 1 after 79
  • Coda: 3rd bar of 86 to 1 before 93
TchaikovskyThe Nutcracker
  • No. 4, “Scene dansante”: 7 before 30 to 4 after 30
TchaikovskySerenade for Strings, Op. 48
  • Mvt. II: 4 after D to E
  • Mvt. III: 4 before B to 10 after B
  • Mvt. IV: 12 after G to 13 after I
Chamber music
BorodinString Quartet No. 2
  • Mvt. III: 1–D
HaydnString Quartet in D Major, Op. 76, No. 5
  • Mvt. I
Possible sight-reading
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