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FALL 2025 AUDITION FORM AND EXCERPTS NOW AVAILABLE
Excerpts for Fall 2025 Auditions are now available. Click on the links below of your respective instruments to access the excerpts. Continue below to find the online audition form.
CONCERTMASTER
VIOLIN
VIOLA
CELLO
BASS
*On the day of the audition, students should be prepared to play requested excepts above.
For harp students, please email Dr. Jaymee Haefner (Jaymee.Haefner@unt.edu) for excerpts, schedule, and audition details.
ONLINE AUDITION FORMS are required to be filled up here. Make sure you sign up BEFORE your audition schedule.
*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.
STRINGS AUDITION GENERAL SCHEDULE
Check your UNT emails by August 1 for the specific timeslots. Times may change until the audition week. Keep your schedule flexible. Allow 15-30 minutes of margin of error when planning your schedule ahead. All auditions take place at the Murchison Performing Arts Center (MPAC).
Audition Dates:
For harp students, please email Dr. Jaymee Haefner (Jaymee.Haefner@unt.edu) for schedule and audition details.
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 https://music.unt.edu/windstudies/ensembles/fall-auditions.html
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.
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:
(1) Contact Orchestral Studies Personnel Manager, Ella Castro (Ella.Castro@unt.edu) for any questions or concerns regarding Fall 2025 Auditions.
(2) Make sure your UNT E-Mail is updated. Especially, if you are an incoming UNT student, check your UNT email at https://ams.untsystem.edu (login using your 8-Digit EUID and password). IMPORTANT: All orchestra-related communications will only be sent to your UNT email once the classes start (August 18, 2025). Please make sure you update it before then.
(3) You enroll in the correct orchestra class after placements are emailed. For undergraduates, enroll in any MULB 1805 sections, For graduate students, enroll in any MULB 5172 sections. For graduate students who needs to enroll in the zero-credit course, please email Dr. Colleen Conlon at colleen.conlon@unt.edu.
(4) 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.
The following 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!