2024 NOI+F String Audition Requirements

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Violin • Viola • Cello • Double Bass

Violin

 

Solo

Mvt. 1 exposition of one of the following concerti (with no cadenza):

  • Brahms Concerto
  • Dvořák Concerto
  • Bruch Concerto No. 1
  • Mendelssohn Concerto
  • Mozart Concerto No. 4 (K. 218)
  • Mozart Concerto No. 5 (K. 219)
  • Prokofiev Concerto No. 2
  • Saint-Saëns Concerto No. 3
  • Sibelius Concerto
  • Tchaikovsky Concerto

*A concerto of equal scope may be substituted with prior permission from the NOI office.

Orchestral Excerpts

  • Brahms Symphony No. 4: movement 4, m.33 to Rehearsal D
  • Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream: Scherzo, beginning to 7 mm. after Rehearsal D
  • Strauss Don Juan: beginning to 13 mm. after Rehearsal C (first page)
  • Price Symphony no. 3: movement 3, Juba. Allegro, opening to mm. 17
 
 

Viola

 

Solo

Mvt. 1 exposition of one of the following concerti*:

  • Bartók Concerto
  • Bloch Suite (1919)
  • Hindemith Der Schwanendreher
  • Stamitz Concerto
  • Walton Concerto

*A concerto of equal scope may be substituted with prior permission from the NOI office.

Excerpts

  • Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6: mvt. 1, mm. 19-62
  • Mendelssohn Scherzo: beginning to D
  • Ginastera Variaciones Concertantes, Var. 5, reh 32 to reh 35
  • Strauss Don Juan: beginning to 9 measures after Rehearsal B
 
 

Cello

 

Solos

Mvt. 1 exposition of one of the following concertos*:

  • Dvořák Concerto
  • Elgar Concerto
  • Haydn Concerto No. 1 in C Major
  • Haydn Concerto No. 2 in D Major
  • Schumann Concerto
  • Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme

*A concerto of equal scope my be substituted with prior permission from the NOI office.

Excerpts

  1. Brahms Symphony No. 2, movement 2: beginning to Rehearsal A
  2. Mozart Symphony No. 35, movement 4: mm. 134 to Rehearsal E
  3. Ginastera Variaciones Concertantes: Variation 1. Tema per Violoncello and Arpa
  4. Strauss Ein Heldenleben: beginning to 5 mm. after #2

Please note: There is a misprinted note in the Mozart excerpt. In the fourth bar of the excerpt, the very last note is misprinted  as an A, while the correct note is an F#. We will accept either version (F# or A) for this audition and update our excerpt edition in the following year. Thank you.

 
 

Double Bass

 

Solos

First movement of one of the following concertos* (in orchestra tuning):

  • Bottesini Concerto No. 2 (beginning to m. 58)
  • Dittersdorf Concerto No. 2 (beginning to m. 98)
  • Koussevitzky Concerto (beginning to m. 77)
  • Vanhal Concerto (beginning to m. 83)

*A concerto of equal scope my be substituted with prior permission from the NOI office.

Excerpts

  1. Beethoven Symphony No. 5, movement 3: beginning to 5 mm. after Rehearsal A
  2. Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes mvt. XI bass solo, reh. 65 to 3 after reh. 67
  3. Brahms Symphony No. 1, movement 1: 4 mm. before Rehearsal E to the 2nd ending
  4. Strauss Ein Heldenleben: #9 to 6 mm. after #12