Chicago`s Grant Park Music Festival Orchestra Carlos Kalmar

Chicago`s Grant Park Music Festival Orchestra Carlos Kalmar

Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, Artistic Director & Principal Conductor
Christopher Bell, Chorus Director
2016 AUDITIONS
VIOLIN REPERTOIRE LIST
I. VIOLIN CONCERTI
1) First movement from Mozart Concerto No. 3, 4, or 5 - (exposition and development only).
2) First movement from a major 19th or 20th century concerto (exposition and development only).
II. ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS
1) Beethoven:
Symphony No. 9, 3rd movement, bars 99 - 114
2) Brahms:
Symphony No. 2, 1st movement, bars 118 - 156
3) Brahms:
Symphony No. 4, 1st movement, bars 392 - 440
4) Copland:
Symphony No. 3, 4th movement, #90 (starting at fourth bar, arco) – #93
5) Mahler:
Symphony No. 9, 1st movement, bar 223 to rehearsal # 13
5) Mendelssohn:
Midsummer Night's Dream, Scherzo – bars 17 - 99
6) Mozart:
Symphony No. 39, 1st movement, bars 1 - 142.
6) Schumann:
Symphony No. 2, Scherzo, bars 1-54 (with repeat)
7) Strauss:
Don Juan, bars 1-62
III. SOLO VIOLIN EXCERPTS (OPTIONAL - for consideration for titled positions only)
1) Bach:
Matthew Passion, BWV 244, "Ebarme Dich," bars 1-9; and
#51 Aria: "Gebt mir meinen Jesum wieder", bars 1-13.
2) Beethoven:
Missa Solemnis, mvt. 4 “Sanctus” - bars 110 - 234.
3) Brahms:
Symphony No. 1, mvt. 2 solo.
4) Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, mvt.'s 2, 3, & 4, solos.
5) Shostakovich:
Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, mvt. 2 solo
IV. SIGHT READING