Auditions
Violin Audition Repertoire List
Preliminaries: Saturday, October 11, 2008
Finals: Monday, October 13, 2008
Please note that any of these works, as well as sight reading, may be asked of any candidate at any time or during either round of this audition. (NB: it is not necessary to use bowings, fingerings, or interpretive markings found in the accompanying excerpts.)
A Romantic Concerto of your choice, and
A Bach Concerto solo movement of your choice
Excerpts:
- Mahler 4th Symphony, 3rd movement, number 9 to 11, Violin I part.
- Ginastera, Concerto for Strings, 1st movement opening solo mm. 1-14, Violin I part.
- Piazzolla, Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas, Primavera Porteña, beginning to number 2, Violin I part.
- P Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings:
- 1st movement to letter H (mm. 1-155) , Violin I part.
- 3rd movement, mm. 1-42, Violin I part.
- Mozart, Divertimento in D Major, K. 136, 1st movement complete, Violin I part.
- Mozart, Divertimento in D Major, K. 136, 1st movement complete, Violin II part.
- Mozart, Divertimento in F Major, K. 138, 2nd movement complete, Violin II part
Viola Audition Repertoire List
Preliminaries: Sunday, October 12, 2008
Finals: Monday, October 13, 2008
Please note that any of these works, as well as sight reading, may be asked of any candidate at any time or during either round of this audition. (NB: Please Ignore any bowings, fingerings, or interpretive markings found in the accompanying excerpts.)
A 3-5 minute solo work of your choice
Excerpts:
- Alberto Ginastera, Concerto per Corde, Op. 33: Viola Solo (Pickup to measure 41 through measure 60)
- W. A. Mozart: Symphonia Concertante, K364:
- 1st movement, Letter B through the downbeat of 4 before C.
- 1st movement, 5 after Letter C to 15 after E
- 1st movement, Full Cadenza (Mozart)
- 2nd movement, measure 16 through 9 before Letter C
- P. Tchaikovsky, Serenade for Strings:
- 1st movement, Letter D to Letter F
- 2nd movement, Letter D to 2 after Letter E
- 4th movement, measure 108 through 2 after Letter C
- D. Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony Op 110a (arr Barshai):
- 2nd movement: #16 through #19
- 2nd movement, Measure 221 through Number 29
- B Bartok, Divertimento:
- 1st movement: Measure 1 through the downbeat of Measure 73
- P Tchaikovsky, Souvenir de Florence:
- 3rd movement, measure 3 through Measure 20 (A)
- 3rd movement, L’istesso tempo before Letter F through 12 after G
- 4th movement, 2 before Letter A through 9 after B
- 4th movement, Tempo Guisto (Fugue) to key change at 8 before Letter O
- F Mendelssohn, Octet for Strings, Op. 20:
- 2nd movement (Andante), Measure 27 through 39
- 4th movement (Presto), viola entrance through Measure 51
For copies of the audition music, please email edoner @ ncco.org or write to Everett Doner, Director of Operations, New Century Chamber Orchestra, 665 3rd Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94107.