String Requirements

NAO 2023 Audition Requirements - Strings

Solo: 1^st movement exposition of Mozart Violin Concerto no. 4
or no. 5

Excerpts:

Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night’s Dream – Scherzo
Measures 17 to 99 (or mm. 17 to 7 measures after D)

Mozart: Symphony No. 39 – 1^st movement
Beginning to end of measure 142

Prokofiev: Classical Symphony – 2^nd movement
Beginning to measure 20 (play downbeat A and then stop)

Prokofiev: Classical Symphony – Finale
Beginning to repeat sign (play second ending and stop)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 – Andante moderato (3^rd movement)
Measure 99 to end of mm. 114

Strauss: Don Juan
First page

Solo: Any movement from a Bach Cello Suite

Excerpts:

Berlioz: Roman: Carnival Overture
No. 1 to end of 8 measures after No. 3

Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night’s Dream – Scherzo
Measure 17 to downbeat of D

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 – 1^st movement
Rehearsal 15 to rehearsal 17

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 – 1^st movement
Rehearsal 32 to 3 measures after rehearsal 38

Strauss: Don Juan
Beginning to D

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 – 1^st movement
Measure 19 to end of measure 7

Solo: Any movement from a Bach Cello Suite

Excerpts:

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 – 2^nd movement
Measures 1 to 10, 49 to 59, and 98 to 106

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Scherzo
Rehearsal C to D, and rehearsal N to O

Strauss: Don Juan
Beginning to D

Mozart: Symphony No. 35 “Haffner” – 4^th movement
Measure 134 to end of 181

Debussy: La Mer - 1^st movement
2 measures before REH 9 to 6 measures after REH 9 (top line only)

Solo: Bach Suite No. 5 – Sarabande

Excerpts:

Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 2 – Badinerie

Mozart: Symphony 40 – 1^st movement
Measure 114 to downbeat of measure 205 and Measure 229 to end of measure 247

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 – 4^th movement
Recit

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 – 3^rd movement
Opening to end of measure 218

Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
REH 9 to 6 measures after REH 12