Orchestral Audition Excerpts

Please find below the links to the Orchestral Excerpts for your Young Mannheim Symphonists 2025 audition video. If you have not already submitted an application form, please do so via this link.

2025 APPLICATION DEADLINES:

  • Sunday 15 September - Applications open, audition excerpts available here

  • Sunday 27 October – Deadline: applications close at midnight

  • Waitlist applications accepted after deadlines - contact operations@arco.org.au

ACCEPTANCE ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Monday 25 November – All Academies

General audition information

A range of orchestral excerpts has been selected by the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra principal musicians who also form the audition panel.

You are required to perform your orchestral excerpts first, followed by your own choice piece (except for timpanists). You may restart the video recording before your own choice piece but you must perform all the orchestral excerpts in one take.

Your own choice solo piece must not be longer than 2 minutes. If the video is longer, our judging panel will listen to the first 2 minutes only.

We recommend that you take the time to listen to historically informed performances (on period instruments) of these works. As well as technical ability, tonal production and intonation, the auditions will be assessed on stylistic understanding and interpretation.

Make sure you perform the excerpts in the context of the work as a whole, paying careful attention to tempo, dynamics and articulations.

The excerpts are of varying difficulty. Don’t be disheartened by a difficult excerpt. You can play it more slowly if necessary.

The links below can be accessed on all devices. If you are accessing them on a mobile phone, you will need to have the Dropbox app.

Links to Orchestral Excerpts