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University Orchestra

The University of Texas University Orchestra (UTUO) is the university's campus-wide orchestra, drawing its membership from throughout the university community. Led by graduate students in orchestral conducting, the UTUO welcomes all UT Austin undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty, staff and affiliates to audition. UTUO performs two concerts each semester that reflect a wide and exciting range of symphonic literature.

Farkhad Khudyev

Music Director, Symphony Orchestra

Assistant Professor of Music in Orchestral Studies

 

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Gabriela Mora-Fallas

Teaching Assistant in Orchestral Conducting

Co-conductor, University Orchestra

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Ke-Yuan Hsin

Co-Director, University Orchestra

Teaching Assistant, Orchestral Conducting

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Join

Universtiy Orchestra is open to all qualified students across the university by audition. Auditions are in both Fall and Spring semesters. Students admitted in Fall do not re-audition in Spring.

Audition Info

 


Course

UNDERGRADUATE ENS 102U
GRADUATE ENS 182U

T-Th, 7–8:30p   
MRH 2.118

 


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Upcoming Performances

Members of utuo pose with their instruments
Event Status
Scheduled
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Ke Yuan Hsin, Gabriela Mora Fallas, & Zongheng Zhang, conductors

Jean Sibelius
Finlandia

Vasily Kalinnikov
Symphony No. 1 in G Minor

The University Orchestra on Bate Recital Hall stage
A horn player performs during an orchestra performance.
Male Conductor conducts the University Orchestra
First and second violinists perform at a University Orchestra concert.
A female conductor leading the University Orchestra.

Previous Seasons


 

22/23

Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55, Eroica

Florence Price
The Oak

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 13

Bedřich Smetana
Vltava (The Moldau)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13, Winter Dreams

 

 

21/22

Benjamin Britten
Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes, Op. 33a 

Alexander Borodin
Symphony No. 2 in B Minor

Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 6 in D Major, Op. 60

Aram Khachaturian
Suite from Masquerade

Florence Price
Symphony No. 1 in E minor

Franz Von Suppé
Overture to Light Calvary

Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Variations on a Rococo Theme for
Cello & Orchestra
 

 

19/20

Ludwig van Beethoven
Coriolan Overture, Op. 62

Leonard Bernstein
Overture to Candide 

Claude Debussy
Petite Suite

Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 7 in D Minor

Edvard Grieg
Suite No. 2 from Peer Gynt

Giuseppe Verdi
Overture to La Forza del destino 

Carl Maria von Weber
Overture to Oberon

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