| Informationen |
Applicants must specify whether they apply for associate principal, for tutti or for both positions. Please note: Principal candidates will not be added to the tutti process - or vice versa - unless they have applied for both positions.
In the SSO, associate principal has duty to chairs 1 through 4, but does not rotate to 2nd violin. The tutti violinists rotate between 1st and 2nd violin.
When starting in the SSO, there is a mandatory trial period of 6 months.
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra doesn’t cover costs of travel, accommodation or other expenses connected to the candidates’ participation in the main audition |
| Pflichtstücke |
1st movement and 2nd movement, with cadenza, of Mozart Violin Concerto no. 3, 4 or 5.
1st movement, with cadenza, of a Violin Concerto by Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius or Nielsen.
Please specify in the application which concertos you will play. |
| Orchesterstellen |
For invited candidates: Orchestra excerpts (all 1st Violin):
1. Brahms: Symphony no. 3, 1st movement, beginning to first note of B.
2. Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite no. 1, Anitra’s Dance.
3. Mahler: Adagietto from Symphony nr. 5, upbeat to 2 to one bar after 3.
4. Mahler: Symphony no. 10, 1st movement, 20 to 22.
5. Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 4, 1st movement, beginning to bar 86.
6. Mozart: Symphony no. 39, 4th movement, beginning to 1st repeat.
7. Prokofiev: Symphony no. 1, 1st movement, beginning to G.P. before H.
8. Schumann: Symphony no. 2, Scherzo, beginning to bar 52.
9. Strauss: Don Juan, beginning to 13 bars after C.
Chamber music
Haydn: Sunrise quartet, 1st movement (op. 76, no. 4) |
