The Wind Symphony is comprised of student musicians from across campus who have demonstrated an outstanding level of musicianship and commitment to excellence. The Wind Symphony performs five to six concerts during each academic year featuring a number of challenging new works for wind band in addition to many works that are considered to be at the core of wind literature.
Join
Wind Symphony is open to students university-wide by audition. students must audition each semester. Auditions for Fall take place at the beginning of that Fall semester. Auditions for Spring take place at the end of the preceding Fall semester.
Audition Information
Requirements and Schedule
All auditions will take place in the Orchestra Room 2.118.
Click on your instrument below for repertoire requirements. Students should prepare one movement of a concerto or a solo work of equal difficulty in addition to all of the excerpts for your instrument.
Cello
Sunday, August 23
Double Bass
Sunday, August 23
Violin
Saturday, August 22
Viola
Saturday, August 22
Sign-Up
Register for an audition and sign up for an audition slot by August 14. Please note that we reserve the right to adjust the schedule as needed so students should monitor their email in case a change is made.
Any questions about the audition process should be directed to the Graduate TAs at utorchestras@utexas.edu and Prof. Khudyev at Farkhad.Khudyev@austin.utexas.edu. Please contact us if there are no audition slots remaining for your instrument.
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Nocturne
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Ryan Kelly, conductor
Bates Recital Hall
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Cody Ray, guest conductor
David Biedenbender
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J.S. Bach
Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor
Leonard Bernstein
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Douglas Henderson, conductor
Emily Warren, guest conductor
Ryan Lindveit
Brilliant Brushstrokes
Roshanne Etezady
Anahita
Warren Benson
The Leaves are Falling
Ottorino Respighi
Pini di Roma
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Cliff Croomes, conductor
Ron Nelson
Sonoran Desert Holiday
Jimmy Santos-Rivera, conductor
Donald Grantham
Southern Harmony
Marc Sosnowchik, conductor
Michael Daugherty
Fifteen: Symphonic Fantasy on the Art of Andy Warhol
Douglas Henderson, conductor
Stephen Page, saxophone
Michael Lebrias & Alec Rodriquez, guest conductors
Otto Nicolai
Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor
Kimberly Archer
Common Threads
Oscar Navarro
Downey Overture
Zhou Tian
Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble
Douglas Henderson, conductor
Emily Warren, guest conductor
Mallory McHenry, harp
Bernstein
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Darius Milhaud
Suite Française
Camille Saint-Saëns
Orient et Occident
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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