The CSU Orchestras strive to invite everyone within and beyond our CSU community to create, experience, and respond to performances that enrich and deepen our ties to humanity and one another.
Events

Spring 2025 Student Recitals / FREE

2025 Middle School Outreach Ensembles (MSOE)

Cello Studio Recital / FREE

The Pirates of Penzance with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W.S. Gilbert

Flute Studio Recital / FREE

The Pirates of Penzance with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W.S. Gilbert

Guest Artist Concert: Mauricio Nader, Piano

Guest Artist Concert: Madeleine Jansen, Violin / FREE

Virtuoso Series Concert: Patricia Goble, Soprano

Jazz Combos Concert Part I

Virtuoso Series Concert: Ron Francois, Violin and Mauricio Nader, Piano

2025 Rocky Mountain Saxophone Summit

2025 Rocky Mountaint Saxophone Summit "Potpourri" Concert / FREE

CSU Trombone Choir and NoCo Bones Concert / FREE

Classical Convergence Series: Imani Winds & Boston Brass

Trumpet Studio Recital / FREE

Virtuoso Series Concert: Forest Greenough, Bass, and Sphere Ensemble

Voice Area Recital / FREE

Woodwinds Chamber Ensemble Concert I / FREE

Brass Area Chamber Music Concert / FREE

Guest Artist Concert: Nicholas Gledhill, Horn / FREE

Jazz Combos Concert Part II

Woodwinds Chamber Ensemble Concert II / FREE

All Choral Showcase: Unclouded Day

Student Chamber Music Recital / FREE

Wind Symphony Concert: The Road is Life

CSU Percussion Ensemble Festival Concert / FREE

Saxophone Studio Recital / FREE

University Symphony Orchestra Concert: Coming Home- A Side-By-Side with NoCoYo (Folk Tales and New Worlds)

Graduate String Quartet Concert / FREE

Virtuoso Series Concert: Faculty Chamber Music

Jazz Ensembles Concert: Roy Haynes Legacy Concert

Keyboard Area Recital / FREE

Symphonic Band Concert

Double Reed Studio Recital / FREE

CSU World Percussion Ensemble Festival Concert

Trombone Studio Recital / FREE

Concert Band Concert: Passions / FREE

Concert Orchestra Concert: Master of Tuplets (Bach’s Revenge) / FREE

2025 CSU Percussion Camp

2025 CSU Organ Week

2025 Summer Voice Intensive

2025 CSU Jazz Summer Workshop

2025 Colorado Harp Seminar

2025 Colorado Harp Seminar

2025 Summer Conducting: Seminar for Music Educators

2025 2025 Colorado Kodály Institute: Summer Residency
2024 Colorado Cello Intensive

2025 International Keyboard Odyssiad® and Festival, U.S.A.
News
The School of Music, Theatre, and Dance is thrilled to introduce Dr. Rachel Waddell as the next conductor of the University Symphony Orchestra and director of orchestras at Colorado State University. Dr. Waddell comes to CSU from the University of Rochester where she has served as the director of orchestral activities. She is the co-founder […]
Ensembles
University Symphony Orchestra
(MU 302)
Our Symphony Orchestra serves as a model for the 21st-century orchestra and is CSU's premier orchestral ensemble. We strive to celebrate the talents of our diverse student body, including music majors, minors, and non-majors. We offer a variety of performance experiences, including opera, dance, theatre, Colorado All-State, and other interdisciplinary collaborations. Our programs explore and expand the existent canon with new music and music by historically under-programmed composers. Recent performances include Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5, Jerod Tate's Ghost of the White Deer bassoon concerto with Cayla Bellamy, and Englebert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel.
Auditions for all instruments are held at the beginning of the fall semester. Winds, brass, and percussion must reaudition in the spring. String players who participate in symphony in the fall are not currently required to re-audition for the spring; however, new string players are welcome to audition at the start of the spring semester.
- Audition required
- Rehearses: T/TR, 2:30–5 p.m., UCA G 106 (Griffin Concert Hall)
- Course Code: MU 302
- Director: Rachel Waddell
Concert Orchestra (MU 206)
Our Concert Orchestra provides performance, educational, and collaborative opportunities for all CSU students in a supportive and nurturing environment. This is an excellent ensemble for music minors, non-performance music majors, music majors on secondary instruments, and students in other degree programs interested in continuing orchestra performance for leisure and personal fulfillment. All are welcome!
- Please register for the class. At the start of the semester, you will receive further instructions from the instructor via email.
- Rehearses: M/W, 1-2:30 p.m., UCA Organ Recital Hall
- Director: Rachel Waddell