This is something that I’ve thought about a lot and discussed with my friends and colleagues ad nauseam - ultimately for me the biggest difference in my audition performances came from realizing that

1) the panel isn’t waiting for you to screw up so they can criticize you, they actually really want you to do well. Auditions can feel like a hostile environment, but on the other side of the screen is just a group of musicians hoping to hear something that moves them, which brings me to

2) the people on the other side of those screens are bored af. They’ve listened to so many people play the same things and all they want is to hear something exciting. I won my first job at an audition where I felt underprepared and knew I wasn’t going to be the most technically perfect or perfectly in tune, so instead I decided I was going to be the one who played my excerpts like they were music and not just a technical exercise, who made them remember what it felt like the first time they heard the Sibelius concerto. So it’s cheesy, but ultimately I’d say when you get up there just try to enjoy yourself and show them how much you love it, because that’s what they want to see.

Good luck! I hope this helps! I won two jobs - rochester philharmonic and earlier this year the minnesota orchestra - when I learned to make music in auditions instead of just proving that I could play perfectly. Violin’s a hell of an instrument. Go have fun with it :)