Instrument or role: Violin
Job category: Performance
Number of positions: 1 open position
Additional information: The audition will be held on 23 September 2025 at the "Great Amber" Concert Hall (8 Radio Street, Liepaja).

Requirements for the Contestants:

Professional higher musical education in the viola specialty, or the Contestant may apply in the capacity of a student of a higher education establishment in the required specialty;
The Contestant’s working experience in an orchestra shall be preferred;
The Contestant’s ability to have his/her primary job at the LSO.

Main job duties:

To prepare and play the orchestral pieces of the first (I) violin section at high artistic quality;
To adhere to the work plans and structure, as well as other internal regulations of the LSO;
To maintain and to improve his/her individual mastery throughout duration of the contract.

Place of work: Radio iela 8, Liepāja, Latvija.

For more information go on www.lso.lv/en/orchestra/vakances

Apply by: September 15, 2025, 23:59 (time zone: Riga)
Application instructions: Deadline for sending the applications: 15 September 2025, by 23:59. The application and documents shall be submitted electronically to the LSO electronic mail address [email protected] with the reference "For Audition":

CV (Curriculum vitae);
copies of documents supporting educational qualifications and further training; for students – a statement issued by the higher educational establishment.
Application link: https://www.lso.lv

Audition repertoire: The 1st round program:

Optionally: the 1st movement of W.A. Mozart's violin concerto with cadenza:
No 3 in G major K.216;
No 4 in D major K.218;
No 5 in A major K.219.
Optionally: one part of J.S. Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin.

The Contestant shall perform the first-round program from his/her sheet music material.

The 2nd round program:

W. A. Mozart – Symphony No 39, 2 nd movement;
W. A. Mozart – Symphony No 39, Finale;
F. Mendelssohn Symphony No 4 Saltarello (fragment from 22 – 54 bar);
R. Schumann Symphony No 2 in C major (from the beginning to Trio);
A. Dvořák “The Czech Suite” Op. 39 (Trio to Polka);
G. Mahler Symphony No 2, 1 st movement (figure 24. – 26.);
S. Prokofiev Symphony No 1 “Classical” IV movement (from the beginning to the third bar of letter C).

The sheet music material for the second round shall be downloaded from the LSO website: lso.lv/orkestris/vakances.

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