Audition Information for Orchestra
Group travel dates for the AIMS Orchestra in Graz are:
Depart North America July 12, 2009 (arrive Graz next day);
Depart Graz, Austria August 15, 16, 17, 2009 (arrive U.S. same day).

Personal Auditions
You must bring with you the standard excerpts listed below for your instrument. When no specific parameters are listed, please play excerpts as stated in the standard excerpt books, choosing contrasting sections if the excerpt is extremely lengthy.

Please view 2008 Audition Cities and Dates to select an audition city and return to this page. 2009 AUDITION CITIES and DATES WILL BE POSTED IN DECEMBER 2008. PLEASE CHECK BACK LATER.

Audition Registration
AUDITION REGISTRATION IS TEMPORARILY CLOSED AND WILL OPEN OCTOBER 1st. Please check back later. Click HERE for Instrumentalist Registration (for Personal or Recorded Audition and to pay the audition fee).

Once your Audition City has been confirmed by AIMS Administration, view details of Audition Site locations, addresses, room numbers, directions and maps - click HERE.

After registering for an audition, you will receive a Confirmatory Email with the link to a document, the Orchestra Audition Questionnaire. These are the instructions you will be given:

  • Open and Print this document.
  • FILL OUT the questionnaire, your repertoire, attach a small photo and your one-page résumé. Your résumé should include competitions you have won/placed.
  • BRING these items to your audition.
  • GIVE them to the AIMS Representative.
    (Page 2 of the document is for recording the results of your audition.)

Recorded Auditions
Each excerpt must be performed in one take without stopping the recording. The items to include in a recorded audition packet are:
  • Recording labeled with your name and email address
  • Your photo
  • A one-page résumé
  • Audition fee payment (if not paid when registering)
  • Recommended but not mandatory: a brief letter of evaluation from your teacher and/or coach (where applicable)
  • Postage-paid envelope if you want the tape/CD returned.
  • Mail your packet to the AIMS Administrative Office.
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For your recorded audition to be evaluated, please register and pay the audition fee.
For Instrumentalist Registration, Click HERE.
Required Repertoire for Orchestra
Please prepare:
1. One accompanied standard solo, preferably a movement from a standard concerto. For Personal Auditions, you must bring the accompaniment to this piece.  An accompanist will be provided or you may bring your own.
2. Orchestral excerpts from the following required list.
Excerpts:
 Violin Mozart:  Symphony #39, 2nd Mvt., mm. 96-108; 4th Mvt., mm. 1-41
Mozart:  Marriage of Figaro Overture, mm. 1-85, 214-265
Schumann:  Symphony #2, 2nd Mvt., mm. 1-48
Strauss:  Don Juan, 1st page
 Viola Brahms:  Symphony #4, 2nd Mvt., Letter D to E
Mozart:  Symphony #35 (Haffner), 4th Mvt., mm. 1-37
Mozart:  Marriage of Figaro Overture, mm. 1-9, 157-265
Smetana:  Bartered Bride Overture, mm. 1-8, 52 -111
Strauss:  Don Juan, 1st page
 Cello Beethoven:  Symphony #5, 3rd Mvt. (Scherzo), mm.1-18, 141-177
Brahms:  Symphony #2, 2nd Mvt., mm. 1-15
Mozart:  Symphony #35 (Haffner), 4th Mvt., mm. 134-181
Mozart:  Marriage of Figaro Overture, mm. 1-9, 157-265
Smetana:  Bartered Bride Overture, 1st two pages
Strauss:  Don Juan, Beginning to Letter C, Letter R to Letter T
 Bass Beethoven:  Symphony #5, 3rd Mvt. (Scherzo)
Beethoven:  Symphony #9, 4th Mvt. (Recitative)
Mozart:  Symphony #35 (Haffner), 4th Mvt., mm. 1-37
Mozart:  Marriage of Figaro Overture, mm. 1-7, 156-164, 274-284
Strauss:  Don Juan, 1st page
 Flute Beethoven: Leonore Overture #3, mm.1-24, 328-360
Bizet:  Carmen, Entr'acte, solo
Mendelssohn:  Midsummer Night?s Dream, Scherzo, solo
Ravel:  Daphnis et Chloe, Suite #2, Solo mm. 176-179
Stravinsky:  Firebird Suite (1919) Variation, rehearsal 9 to end
 Piccolo Rossini: Semiramide Overture, Letter G to H, Letter T to U
Schostakovich:  Symphony #6, 1st Mvt. Solo
 Oboe Ravel: Le Tombeau du Couperin, 1st mvt, mm. 1-14
Rossini:  La Scala di Seta Overture
Schubert:  Symphony #9 (C Major), 2nd Mvt.
Strauss:  Don Juan, mm. 235-268
 English Horn Ravel: Mother Goose Suite, 3rd Mvt.
Rossini:  William Tell Overture
Wagner:  Tristan und Isolde
 Clarinet Beethoven: Symphony #8 (trio)
Brahms:  Symphony #3, 2nd Mvt.
Mendelssohn:  Midsummer Night's Dream, Scherzo, mm. 1-48, 95-115
Schostakovich:  Symphony #9, 3rd Mvt., mm. 1-17
Smetana:  Bartered Bride Overture, opening
 E-Flat Clarinet Berlioz: Symphony Fantastique
Ravel:  Daphnis et Chloe, Suite #2
Stravinsky:  Rite of Spring
 Bass Clarinet Strauss: Don Quixote
Stravinsky:  Rite of Spring
Wagner:  Siegried's Rhein Journey
 Bassoon Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore, ?Una furtiva lagrima?
Mozart:  Marriage of Figaro Overture, mm.101-123, 139-171
Ravel:  Bolero, #2 to #3
Rimsky-Korsakov:  Scheherazade, 2nd Mvt., solo and cadenzas
Rossini:  La Gazza Ladre Overture, Letter D to E
 French Horn Beethoven: Symphony #3 (trio), second horn part
Beethoven:  Symphony #9, 3rd Mvt., fourth horn part
Brahms:  Symphony #3, 3rd Mvt.
Strauss:  Till Eulenspiegel, horn call (first and third horn parts)
Tschaikowsky:  Symphony #5
 Trumpet Beethoven: Leonore Overture #3
Mahler:  Symphony #5, 1st Mvt., mm. 1-24
Ravel:  Piano Concerto in G, 1st Mvt., solo
Stravinsky:  Petroushka (1947), "Ballerina's dance"
Strauss:  Don Juan or Ein Heldenleben
 Trombone Mahler: Symphony #3, 1st Mvt., mm. 166-209
Mozart:  Requiem, Tuba Mirum
Rossini:  William Tell Overture, mm. 92-131
Schumann:  Symphony #3, 4th Mvt., mm.1-8
Wagner:  Lohengrin, Prelude to the Third Act
 Bass Trombone Rossini: William Tell Overture, mm.92-131
Schumann:  Symphony #3, 4th Mvt., mm. 1-18
Strauss:  Ein Heldenleben, "Battle scene"
Wagner:  Das Rheingold
 Tuba Berlioz: Symphony Fantastique (4th and 5th Mvts.)
Strauss:  Till Eulenspiegel, 7 before #37 to 16 after #37
Wagner:  Die Meistersinger, Prelude
Wagner:  Lohengrin, Prelude to the Third Act
 Harp No positions are currently available for harpists.
 Timpani-Percussion Applicants should have a solo piece for a mallet instrument and an example for snare drum and the following excerpts for timpani:
Beethoven:  Fidelio, finale
Beethoven:  Symphony #9, first and second movement
Strauss:  Burleske, mm. 1-20
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