Upcoming Auditions -
SPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Springfield, Massachusetts
Kevin Rhodes, Music Director
Announces auditions for
PRINCIPAL VIOLA
on September 6, 2011
One-year position with possibility for permanent employment, if the musician taking the sabbatical does not return.
The winner of the audition must be available to play all or most of the 2011-12 Season.
2010-11 Rates:
$233.12 performance
$49.34 rehearsal hour
Per-service orchestra with 6 classicals, 4 pops, youth, summer season of concerts at Berkshire Choral Festival, possibility of run-outs, additional pops, ensemble work. Travel & Per Diem as per Master Agreement.
2011-12 rep includes:
Shostakovich 5, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 3, Beethoven 7,
R. Schumann 2, Holst The Planets, Bolcom Prometheus
See audition rep below
Should a current member of the orchestra win the position, the runner-up may be offered the resulting vacancy for the one-year position.
Please send a one-page resume and a $50 check
(refunded upon presence at audition)
payable to:
Springfield Symphony Orchestra
by August 19, 2011
to:
Renato Wendel
Director of Operations
Springfield Symphony Orchestra
1350 Main Street, Suite 12
Springfield, MA 01103
E-mail: rwendel@SpringfieldSymphony.org
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Audition Repertoire:
Major Concerto of choice
Approximately 2-3 minutes of first movement
Solo Bach selection
Berlioz
Harold in Italy
Solo: 10 measures after rehearsal # 3 through 10 measures after rehearsal #5
Beethoven
Symphony No. 7
- Movement I: Measures 118-141
Brahms
Variations on a Theme by Haydn
- Variation 5: Beginning to letter H
Mozart
Overture Le Nozze di Figaro
- Beginning through measure 58
Mendelssohn
Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- 9 measures after letter H to letter K
Ravel
Daphnis and Chloe Suite II
- Rehearsal # 212 to 216
Ravel
Mother Goose Suite
(Ma Mère L’Oye Suite)
- Last movement: Viola solo, rehearsal #2 to 4
Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5
- Movement I: Rehearsal # 15 to 17
Strauss
Don Quixote
- Rehearsal # 14 to 18
Strauss
Don Juan
- Beginning to letter B
In addition, sight- reading excerpts from the standard orchestral repertoire may be asked
With exception of Shostakovich all excerpts are available at www.imslp.org
Copyrighted material will be sent upon request after July 11, 2011
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