Strings

Applicants must let the Academy know of their intended audition programme (and whether or not they intend to use the official RSAMD accompanist) by filling out and returning the audition repertoire form to the RSAMD.

Violin   

• Any two movements from Bach’s Sonatas or Partitas, or equivalent piece (Bartok, Hindemith etc) for solo violin.
• And a movement from a Major concerto (Beethoven, Brahms, Bartok, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Barber etc.) or a major performance piece (Chausson, Bartok Rhapsody, Ravel Tzigane, etc).

• Any two movements from Bach’s cello Suites, violin Sonatas or Partitas, or equivalent piece (Ligeti, Hindemith etc) for solo viola.
• And a movement from a Major concerto (Walton, Bartok, Schnittke, etc.) or a major performance piece or one or two  movements from a sonata  (Enesco Concertpiece, Schumann Marchenbilder, or Brahms Sonata etc).

• Any two movements from Bach’s cello Suites, or equivalent piece (Britten, Kodaly, Crumb etc) for solo cello.
• And a movement from a Major concerto (Dvorak, Schumann, Walton, Prokofiev etc.) or a major performance piece or sonata.

• Any movement from a major concerto
• And a contrasting performance piece

• Any two movements from Bach’s lute Suites, violin Sonatas or Partitas, cello Suites or equivalent works (Scarlatti, Weiss etc)
• And a movement from a Major concerto (Rodrigo, Villa Lobos, Ponce, etc.) or a major performance piece (Walton Bagatelles, Ginastera Sonata, Britten Nocturnal etc).

• a movement from any major concerto
• a major work written after 1900
• And the following orchestral cadenzas: