Violin 3rd Chair Required Repertoire
Solos and Chamber Music:
Mozart: Concerto , First mvt. with cadenza
One mvt. (complete, with cadenza, if applicable) of any major concerto
Brahms: String Quartet opus 51, #1, 1st mvt., 1st violin part
Mozart: String Quartet K458, 1st mvt., 2nd violin part
Concertmaster Solos:
Note: only solo passages are required
Brahms: Symphony #1, 2nd Mvt.
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, 1st Mvt., 2nd Mvt., and 3rd Mvt.
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Rehearsal #22 (Erstes Zeitmass) to Rehearsal #32 (Massig langsam)
Orchestral Excerpts (all first violin parts):
Beethoven: Symphony #2, 4th mvt., measures 1-25
Brahms: Symphony #2
1st mvt., letter D-F (measures 101-155)
2nd mvt., measures 51-55
Mahler: Symphony #5
1st mvt., Rehearsal #7-#11 (Measures 155-231)
3rd mvt. (Adagietto) Rehearsal #2-#3 (Measures 38-72)
Mendelssohn: Scherzo from the "Midsummer Night's Dream" (Beginning to Letter E)
Mozart: Symphony #39
2nd mvt., Beginning to 9 measures after Letter A
4th mvt., beginning to the double bar
Strauss: Don Juan, Beginning to 9 before D (measures 1-66)
Possible Sight Reading