Audition date: 23rd January 2026
 
Please submit the completed application form, including your CV and a link to your video recording (preferably on YouTube): APPLICATION FORM
ON THE WEBSITE
 
Application deadline: 12th December 2025
AUDITION REPERTOIRE:
 
PRE-SELECTION VIDEO RECORDING
(With the application, please send a link to your uploaded video recording on YouTube. The recording must be with piano or orchestral accompaniment, live & not older than 1 year.)
a) C. P. Stamitz:  Concerto for Viola op. 1 – 1st movement, exposition & cadenza
b)

R. Strauss: Don Juan
 
 
1st ROUND (blind audition, solo piece with piano)
 
   a) C. P. Stamitz: Concerto for Viola op. 1 – 1st movement with cadenza
 
   b) Orchestral excerpts:
  
D. Shostakovich:   Symphony No. 7 – Leningrad Symphony
R. Strauss:       Don Juan
          
2nd ROUND (non-blind audition, solo piece with piano):
  
a)   First and second movements of one of the following viola concertos:
      B. Bartók / W. Walton /P. Hindemith: „Der Schwanendreher“
 
b) Orchestral excerpts:
L. v. Beethoven:    Symphony No. 5
L. v. Beethoven:    Symphony No. 9
B. Smetana:  From Bohemia's Woods and Fields
B. Smetana:   The Bartered Bride (Overture)
L. Janáček:  Sinfonietta
 
c) Orchestral solos
J. Suk:    Pohádka léta, Slepí hudci/A Summer´s Tale, The Blind Musicians
V. Novák:    O věčné touze/ Of Eternal Longing
B. Martinů:    The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca
 
  
     
THE ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS CAN BE FOUND
ON THE WEBSITE & WILL BE SENT WITH THE INVITATION