Auditions
Announces the following vacancies:
- Section 1st Violin, chair 10
- Section 2nd Violin, chair 8
- Section Viola, chairs 5 and 6
- Section Cello, chairs 5 and 8
Auditions will take place October 18, 2025
Application deadline September 18, 2025
* There is a $100 audition deposit. Deposit is refundable upon audition or cancelation within 1 week of audition.
Application NOT complete without deposit.
Concerto: Exposition from a standard concerto
Excerpts:
Cello:
Beethoven 3, mvt 1 (Reh V through m.685)
Brahms 3, mvt 3 (beginning to B)
Debussy: La Mer (2 mm before Reh 9 until 6 mm after Reh 9, top line)
Mozart 35, mvt 1 (beginning to B)
Tchaikovsky 6, mvt 2 (beginning to m.25)
Viola:
R. Strauss, Don Juan: beginning through 9th bar of [B]
Brahms, Variations on a Theme by Haydn: Var. V (all; top line); Var. VIII (all)
Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 in B minor: mm. 19-66 (top line)
Prokofiev, Symphony No. 1, I.: the 8 measures preceding [I]; in some editions, this passage is Reh. [13] (stop at [14])
Berlioz, Roman Carnival Overture: pickup to 3 after [1] through 8 after [3]
Violin I:
Concerto
Option 1: 1 st Movement (exposition only) of any standard Romantic violin concerto
Option 2: 1 st Movement (exposition only) of Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3, No. 4, or No. 5 Orchestral
Excerpts:
Beethoven Symphony No. 9 III: mm. 99-114
Brahms Symphony No. 4 IV: mm. 33-80
Mahler Symphony No. 1 IV: [15] – [19]
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Incidental Music Scherzo: mm. 17-99
Mozart Symphony No. 39 II: mm. 1-27 IV: m. 1 – downbeat of m. 41
R. Strauss Don Juan mm. 1-62
Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker Overture: mm. 134-182 (top line)
Violin II:
Bartók Concerto for orchestra V: mm. 265-317
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2 II: 11 before [33] – 4 before [35]
