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COMING SOON: STRING AUDITION TIMESLOTS. Check your emails next week! Fill up your online audition forms!
CHANGE OF PLATFORM FOR INTERNAL-RELATED INFORMATION (please read thoroughly!)
Complying with the changes in the University's content management, we are changing our platforms where we post all internal-related information (e.g. audition timeslots, audition placements, rehearsal schedules, seating charts, etc.). In this regard, we are encouraging all members and future members of the orchestra to make sure that:
(1) REQUIRED: You fill up the online audition form here. Fill this up ASAP to ensure you receive up-to-date information (until a week before the audition weekend). Make sure that the information you put in there is also up to date. Anyone who wish to revise their information in their submitted form should send an email to Ella.Castro@unt.edu with the subject: AUDITION FORM REVISION. Kindly include the information you want to revise for the personnel database.
*All undergraduate string majors and concentrations ARE REQUIRED to take the auditions.
Graduate students who are receiving any kind of College of Music Scholarship, TA or TF, ARE REQUIRED to take this audition and remain available for orchestra placement. Masters students and GAC students with the remaining curricular requirements for large ensembles ARE ALSO REQUIRED to take the auditions.
(2) REQUIRED: You check your emails more thoroughly at this time. Orchestral Studies Personnel Manager, Ella Castro (Ella.Castro@unt.edu) will be sending weekly (or more) emails to ensure we are together in this period of change.
(3) REQUIRED: Your UNT email is updated in the personnel database. If you have received a recent email regarding updating your UNT email in the database, send an email ASAP to Ella Castro containing your full name and your UNT email address. IMPORTANT: All orchestra-related communications will only be sent to your UNT email once the classes start (August 19, 2024). Please make sure you update it before then.
(4) You enroll in an orchestra class as a placeholder. For undergraduates, enroll in any MULB 1805 sections, For graduate students, enroll in any MULB 5172 sections.
(5) You get the Canvas app. Before the second week of classes, we are going to shift all internal-related communications to Canvas. More information will be discussed in the first day of classes.
This information will be updated in a timely manner. We encourage to everyone to check this website more frequently as we navigate these changes together. Stay updated, Orchestral Studies!
EXCERPTS for Fall 2024 Auditions are now available! Click on the links of your respective instruments below to access the excerpts. Continue below to find the online audition form if you have not filled out one yet. For VIOLIN: an excerpt has been updated below.
CONCERTMASTER
VIOLIN (revised July 24, 2024)
VIOLA (revised July 18, 2024)
CELLO
BASS
HARP
*On the day of the audition, students should be prepared to play requested excepts above.
STRINGS AUDITION GENERAL SCHEDULE
Friday, August 16, 2024: VIOLA (from 2:30 PM)
Murchison Performing Arts Center – Winspear Hall
Saturday, August 17, 2024: CELLO (from 9:00 AM) | BASS (from 1:30 PM) | HARP (from 3:45 PM)
Murchison Performing Arts Center – Winspear Hall
Sunday, August 18, 2024: VIOLIN (from 11:00 AM)
Murchison Performing Arts Center – Winspear Hall
Kindly plan your schedule accordingly. In case of possible conflicts, send an email to Ella Castro, Orchestral Studies Personnel Manager, at Ella.Castro@unt.edu as soon as possible.
*Woodwind, Brass and Percussion Students can find audition information at http://windstudies.music.unt.edu/auditions
Complying with the changes in the University's content management, everyone who are in the current database that the Orchestral Studies have will RECEIVE AN EMAIL WITH YOUR TIMESLOTS ON OR BEFORE JULY 29, 2024 (Monday). In this regard, we are encouraging all members and future members of the orchestra to make sure that:
(1) You check your emails more thoroughly at this time. Send an email to Orchestral Studies Personnel Manager, Ella Castro (Ella.Castro@unt.edu) if you have not received an email with your timeslots after July 29, 2024.
(2) Your UNT email is updated in the personnel database. If you have received a recent email regarding updating your UNT email in the database, send an email ASAP to Ella Castro containing your full name and your UNT email address. IMPORTANT: All orchestra-related communications will only be sent to your UNT email once the classes start (August 19, 2024). Please make sure you update it before then.
(3) You fill up the online audition form above. MANDATORY: Fill this up ASAP to ensure you receive up-to-date information. Make sure that the information you put in there is also up to date.
(4) You enroll in an orchestra class as a placeholder. For undergraduates, enroll in any MULB 1805 sections, For graduate students, enroll in any MULB 5172 sections.
(5) You get the Canvas app. If you are enrolled in any orchestra classes as a placeholder by Sunday, July 28, 2024, you will also get a notification in the Canvas app with the audition timeslots. No pressure, the Canvas assignments are temporary and would not be solidified until the first week of classes when the placements are sent.
This information will be updated in a timely manner. We encourage to everyone to check this website more frequently as we navigate these changes together. Stay updated, Orchestral Studies!
UNT Orchestral Studies consists of two ensembles: UNT Concert Orchestra & UNT Symphony Orchestra.
Students are assigned to either Concert Orchestra (MWF 12:15 – 2:05) or Symphony Orchestra (MWF 2:15 – 4:05). Audition placement results will be sent through email by 8:00am on Monday, August 19, 2024. Auditioning students MUST keep both ensemble times open until orchestral assignments are made. Ensemble assignments are made without reference to pre-existing commitments outside of UNT. Contact David Itkin, Director of Orchestral Studies, at David.Itkin@unt.edu for any further questions.