Requirements for Audition

Associate Principal Second Violin

October 2016

The NZSO tunes at A440. Candidates MUST use the same instrument for the solos and
excerpts. Free bowing for orchestral excerpts. Auditions must be unaccompanied.

Solo (unaccompanied)

01 - Mozart - Concerto No. 4 or 5 exposition of the 1st movement with cadenza

02 - Exposition of the 1st movement of one of the following concertos:

Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky OR Sibelius

Excerpts

03 – Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet

04 - Brahms Symphony No. 4

05 - Beethoven Symphony No. 9

06 - Mahler Symphony No. 9

07 - Bartók Concerto for Orchestra

08 – R. Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra! (2 excerpts)

09 - Mozart Symphony No. 41 (‘Jupiter’)

10 - Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht

11 - Holst The Planets

12 - Debussy La Mer (2 excerpts)

File names
If sending a recorded audition, to enable us to easily directly play any excerpt, please label each
file individually as per these example filenames:
• “05 Beethoven 9.mov”
• “08a Strauss Zarathustra excerpt 1.mov”
• “08b Strauss Zarathustra excerpt 2.mov”
• “11 Holst Planets.mov”
• etc.