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
Fall 2024 Student Recitals FREE
CSU Marching Band at Football vs. Utah State
Keyboard Area Recital / FREE
All-Choral Holiday Concert: Featuring Chamber Choir, Concert Choir, and University Chorus
Concert Orchestra Concert: Reflections at Candlelight /FREE
2024 CSU Honor Band Festival
Symphonic Band Concert: Time and Place
Wind Symphony Concert: Latin American Chronicles
2024 CSU Marching Band Parade of Lights
Freshman Voice Studio Recital / FREE
Scholarship Info Session
CSU Spur Music Lab
Classical Convergence Series: A Classic Christmas with Frisson
2025 Trying On Teaching
Scholarship Info Session
Music Therapy Major Information Session #2
Classical Convergence Series: The Aznavoorian Sisters
2025 Continuing Education Credit at CMEA
Masterclass with Joseph Alessi, Trombone / FREE
Spring 2025 Student Recitals / FREE
Music Therapy Major Information Session #3
Scholarship Info Session
2025 CSU Trumpet Day
Spring 2025 Be a Voice Major for a Day
2025 BassoonaRAMa and OboeRAMa
Classical Convergence Series: Icarus Quartet Bartók Rebórn
2025 Rocky Mountain Saxophone Summit
Classical Convergence Series: Imani Winds & Boston Brass
2025 Summer Voice Intensive
2025 CSU Jazz Summer Workshop
2025 Eurhythmics for the School Music Classroom
2025 Colorado Harp Seminar
2025 Colorado Harp Seminar
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