Audition

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

announces audition for:

I AND II VIOLIN

1st round:	One concerto of the competitor’s own choice: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Violin Concerto No 3 in G Major, KV 216: 1st movement (with cadenza) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Violin Concerto No 4 in D Major, KV 218: 1st movement (with cadenza) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Violin Concerto No 5 in A major, KV 219: 1st movement (with cadenza)
2nd round:	One concerto of the competitor’s own choice: Ludwig van Beethoven – Violin Concerto in D Major, Op 61: 1st movement (with cadenza) Johannes Brahms – Violin Concerto in D Major, Op 77: 1st movement (with cadenza) Felix Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op 64: 1st movement (with cadenza) Piotr Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto in D Major, Op 35: 1st movement (with cadenza) Jean Sibelius – Violin Concerto in D minor, Op 47: 1st movement (with cadenza) Aram Khachaturian – Violin Concerto in D minor: 1st movement (with cadenza) Antonín Dvořák – Violin Concerto in A minor, op 53: 1st movement (with cadenza) Béla Bartók – Violin Concerto No 2: 1st movement (with cadenza) Max Bruch – Violin Concerto No 1 in G Minor, Op 26: 1st movement (with cadenza) Henri Vieuxtemps – Violin Concerto No 5 in A Minor, Op 37: 1st movement (with cadenza) Edward Elgar – Violin Concerto in B minor, Op 61: 1st movement (with cadenza) Sergei Prokofiev – Violin Concerto No 1 in D major, Op 19: 1st movement (with cadenza) Sergei Prokofiev – Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 63: 1st movement (with cadenza) Orchestral parts*
3rd round:	Orchestral parts

CO-PRINCIPAL VIOLA

1st round:	One concerto of the competitor’s own choice: Franz Anton Hoffmeister – Viola Concerto in D major, 1st movement (with cadenza) and 2nd movement (without cadenza) Carl Stamitz – Viola Concerto in D major, Op 1, 1st movement (with cadenza) and 2nd movement (without cadenza)
2nd round:	One concerto of the competitor’s own choice: Béla Bartók – Viola Concerto, 1st movement William Walton – Viola Concerto, 1st movement Paul Hindemith – Der Schwanendreher, 1st movement Orchestral parts

CO-PRINCIPAL DOUBLE BASS

1st round:	One classical concerto of the competitor’s own choice: Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Double Bass Concerto in E Major, 1st movement (with cadenza by Gruber) Jean Baptiste Vanhal – Double Bass Concerto in D Major, 1st movement (with cadenza) Johann Mathias Sperger – Double Bass Concerto No 15, 1st movement (with cadenza)
2nd round:	One romantic concerto of the competitor’s own choice: Serge Koussevitzky – Double Bass Concerto in F sharp Minor, 1st & 2nd movements Giovanni Bottesini – Double Bass Concerto No 2 in B Minor, 1st & 2nd movements Eduard Tubin – Double Bass Concerto, 1st & 2nd movements (with cadenza)
3rd round:	Orchestral parts

Audition will take place on June 17 at 10 a.m. (co-principal viola), on June 17 at 12 p.m. (co-principal double bass) 2013, and on June 18 at 10 a.m. (I and II violin) at Estonia Concert Hall, Tallinn.
Deadline for application** and CV-s is June 3, 2013.

*Orhestral parts will be announced two weeks before the audition.

** In your application please be sure to indicate which works from the selection will be in your programme.

Further information
The competition (all rounds) will take place during the course of one day. Only live performances are possible. ERSO will not supply participants with visa invitations and will not pay travelling costs incurred by competitors.

e-mail: audition@erso.ee
fax: +372 6 313 133
phone: +372 6 147 787
ERSO, Estonia ave 4, 10148 Tallinn