Audition for the Position of Viola 3rd Deputy

Audition repertoire

Pre-selection video recording:

(With the application, please send a link to your uploaded video recording on YouTube. The recording must be with piano or orchestral accompaniment, live & not older than 1 year.)

a) C. P. Stamitz: Concerto for Viola op. 1 – 1st movement, exposition & cadenza

b) orchestral excerpts: R. Strauss: Don Juan

1st Round (blind audition):

a) C. P. Stamitz: Concerto for Viola op. 1 – 1st movement with cadenza

b) Orchestral excerpts:

• D. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 – Leningrad Symphony

• R. Strauss: Don Juan

2nd Round (non-blind audition):

a) First and second movement of one of the following viola concertos:

B. Bartók
or
W. Walton
or
P. Hindemith: „Der Schwanendreher“

b) Orchestral excerpts:

• L. v. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

• L. v. Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

• B. Smetana: From Bohemia's Woods and Fields

• B. Smetana: The Bartered Bride (Overture)

• L. Janáček: Sinfonietta

c) Orchestral solos

• J. Suk: Pohádka léta, Slepí hudci/A Summer´s Tale, The Blind Musicians

• V. Novák: O věčné touze/ Of Eternal Longing

• B. Martinů: The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca