Requirements for Audition Associate Principal Viola
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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
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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.