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Requirements for Audition Associate Principal Viola

March 2017

Auditions must be unaccompanied. Candidates MUST use the same instrument in orchestral tuning (A440) for the solos and excerpts.

Solo – 1st movement (unaccompanied)

01 - One of:

Bartok – Viola Concerto Walton – Viola Concerto Hindemith – Der Schwanendreher

AND

02 - One of:

Stamitz – Viola Concerto (no cadenza) Hoffmeister – Viola Concerto (no cadenza)

Excerpts

03 - J. S. Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

04 - Beethoven Symphony No.5, 2nd movement

05 - Elgar "Enigma" Variations (2 excerpts)

06 - Ginastera Variaciones Concertantes

07 - Mendelssohn Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture (C to D)

08 - W.A. Mozart Symphony No. 35 "Haffner"

09 - Prokofiev Roméo et Juliette Suite No. 2

10 - R. Strauss Don Quixote (3 excerpts)

11 - R. Strauss Don Juan (2 excerpts)

12 - R. Strauss Heldenleben

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13 - Shostakovich Symphony No. 5

14 - Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Tallis

File names If sending a recorded audition, to enable us to easily directly play any excerpt, please label each file individually as per these example filenames:

“01 Bartok viola solo.mov” “02 Stamitz viola solo.mov” “03 Bach Brandenburg Concerto.mov”

“05a Elgar Enigma Variations excerpt 1.mov” “05b Elgar Enigma Variations excerpt 2.mov” etc.