Welcome to the AVS orchestral training page! Here you will find sage advice from many orchestral violists on how to expertly prepare excerpts for auditions. Please also visit our multimedia page for additional orchestral preparation instructional materials.
Dan Foster – Preparation and Performance of Richard Strauss’ Don Quixote and Ein Heldenleben
Patricia McCarty – Developing Spiccato for All Occasions
Charles Pikler – Wagner’s Overtures to Tannhäuser
Ellen Rose – Distribution of Responsibilities in a Viola Section
Christine Rutledge – Orchestral Repertoire Lists
Yizhak Schotten – Preparing a Successful Audition – Beyond the Basics
Robert Vernon – Mendelssohn Scherzo, Mozart Symphony #35, and Strauss Don Juan
Evan Wilson – Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
