The Luminosa String Orchestra
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Auditions 2022
Applications are now CLOSED for 2022
Stage 1
Apply for an audition
Send a cover letter with your c.v. detailing all performance experience along with musical qualifications, institutions attended and teachers.
Email this to lucy@luminosa.ie
Deadline:
Wednesday 28th September
2022.
Stage 2
Notification
You will be notified if you qualify for an audition.
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Audition slots are limited for this date.
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Auditions:
October 1st 2022
at the Siobhán McKenna Theatre, NUI Galway
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Stage 3
Preparation
Please see below under "your audition" for information on preparation.
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Stage 4
The audition
A warm up area will be provided. You will be asked to play excerpts of 3 prepared pieces. The audition will last no longer than 15 minutes
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Detailed information below
APPLY HERE:
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APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED FOR 2022
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You must include your c.v. and a covering email letter.
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The Luminosa String Orchestra is a professional orchestra and you should be a practising professional musician with adequate orchestral experience.
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Your Auditon
Should you be offered an audition, these are the requirements: You will be asked to play three pieces of music...
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Two Pieces
Select two
contrasting pieces of music to perform. These can be from your own repertoire and can be anything you think suitable.
These should be performed unaccompanied.
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Orchestral Exceprt
Choose one
of the following orchestral excerpts. Metronome markings are provided where necessary.
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Violin
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1. Mozart Symphony 39
4th movement - Exposition to letter A; or:
2. Elgar Enigma Variations -
Variation 2
Viola
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1. Mozart Symphony 35 Presto
(bar 134- reh E; or:
2. Mendelssohn Ein Sommernachtstraum Scherzo
(bar 17 to reh D)
Cello
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1. Mozart Overture to The Marriage of Figaro (Presto to bar 24); or:
2. Smetana Bartered Bride
(until 5 bars after reh A)
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Double Bass
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1. Mozart- The Marriage of Figaro Overture
(start to bar 24); or:
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2. Beethoven -Symphony no 7, first movement
(start to reh C)
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE PIECES THIS LINK:
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