Concert Band Auditions


Auditions required for placement

Wind Ensemble

  • Fall Semester Rehearsals: MWF 1:00pm-2:50pm
  • Spring Semester: MWF 2:00pm-3:50pm

Symphonic Band

  • Fall Semester Rehearsals: TR 3:30pm-5:20pm
  • Spring Semester: MWF 2:00pm-3:50pm

Symphony Orchestra

  • Rehearsals: MTR 4:00pm-5:50pm

University Band, available with or without audition

  • Fall Semester Rehearsals: R 6:00pm-7:20pm
  • Spring Semester: TR 4:00pm-5:15pm

Audition Schedule

Excerpts and audition signup for Spring 2025 will be posted the week after Thanksgiving.

Audition sign-up sheets will be on the Band Office window (124 Murphy Hall). Rehearsals begin for KUWE on Monday, January 27, for KUSB on Wednesday, January 29, and for KUSO WBP on Tuesday, January 28.

 

Tuesday, January 2111:30 — 12:45 pmHornSwarthout Recital Hall
 1:15 — 3:15 pmTuba/EuphSwarthout Recital Hall
 3:45 — 5:00 pmOboeSwarthout Recital Hall
Wednesday, January 2211:00 — 1:30 pmTromboneSwarthout Recital Hall
 2:00 — 5:15pmTrumpetSwarthout Recital Hall
Thursday, January 2311:30 — 1:45 pmFluteSwarthout Recital Hall
 2:15 — 4:15pmSaxophoneSwarthout Recital Hall
Friday, January 2411:30 — 2:30 pmClarinetSwarthout Recital Hall
 2:45— 3:45 pmBassoonSwarthout Recital Hall
 12:00 — 2:20pmPercussion110 Murphy Hall

Audition Policy

All music majors and scholarship recipients are required to audition and be available to play in Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, or Symphony Orchestra. Consequently, all music majors and scholarship recipients are expected to keep their schedules completely conflict-free until after the audition results have been posted. Top winds, brass, and percussion players will rotate semesters between the KU Wind Ensemble and the KU Symphony Orchestra.

Woodwind, Brass, and Percussion ensemble placement auditions are held will be held the first week of classes in August. Auditions are required for placement in Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, and Symphony Orchestra.  Audition sign-up sheets will be posted outside of the band office, 124 Murphy Hall, the week prior to auditions.  Auditions consist of the required excerpts (download below) and sight-reading.


Audition Excerpts

Excerpts and audition signup for Spring 2025 will be posted the week after Thanksgiving.