Orchestral Excerpts for Violin
Taught by renowned concertmaster David Kim
Gain the skills to succeed in your next audition. Learn how to execute commonly-requested orchestral violin excerpts at the highest levels of precision and musicality.

Gain the skills to succeed in your next audition. Learn how to execute commonly-requested orchestral violin excerpts at the highest levels of precision and musicality.
When facing an audition for a top orchestra or music school, what skills must you demonstrate? What approaches and mindsets will increase your odds of success?
This course will reveal it all. Through several excerpts of standard orchestral repertoire, longtime concertmaster David Kim demonstrates how to stand out before a panel, execute technique at a high level, and polish your own renditions of noteworthy solo violin passages.
Learn the main skills distinguished orchestras look for in violinists.
Discover how to show your personality through lyricism and musicality.
Refine your approach to bowing, fingering, phrasing, and other aspects of technique.
In this multi-part course, David Kim explores violin excerpts of 11 classical and romantic orchestral masterpieces — showing you how to handle audition material with confidence and impress panels with your technical skill and artistic touch. Plus, you’ll have complete access to Kim’s score annotations, including his bow markings, articulations, phrasing, and more.
David Kim is well-respected both as a practitioner and educator in the violin world. He has been the concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 1999, and continues to maintain an active schedule of touring and leading master classes. He has performed at such venues as Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, holds the honor of Distinguished Artist at the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University, and has been a judge at major international violin competitions.
As a longtime concertmaster, Kim understands what it takes to execute technique and artistry on the violin at the highest level. He brings decades of expertise and empathy to bear as he teaches violinists new perspectives on interpreting orchestral repertoire.
David Kim is just one of the elite artists and pedagogues who teach inside tonebase. When you join, you’ll get complete access to every digital lesson and resource you’ll ever need to grow as a violinist.
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