Why join a TU Ensemble?
Our goals for ensemble participation at TU is, first and foremost, to provide an enjoyable and enriching experience to the students!
In addition to music majors, students from all departments and colleges are eligible to participate in any of the university’s music activities through audition.
From supporting TU football in Chapman Stadium in the Sound of the Golden Hurricane, to performing a time-honored Beethoven symphony, we aim to complement the university’s other academic studies while providing a social and musical outlet that meets our students’ range of needs.
For the large number of non-majors participating, our goal is to provide a musical experience which is enriching and meaningful, targeted at the right level for students to be able to participate fully while keeping expectations for outside-of-class practice time manageable.
For music majors, more challenging repertoire is appropriate, but still targeted with the same approach – that outside-of-class time expectations should be mindful of the student’s other responsibilities. Additionally, because of our small size, students can pursue performance across genres – marching band, concert band, jazz, orchestral and choral – without becoming forced to specialize in one genre or another.
The TU Symphony Orchestra is a full-year performing ensemble comprised of music majors and non-majors and is open to any TU student by audition. The orchestra performs music from the standard orchestral repertoire, accompanies student concerto/aria winners in the annual President’s Concert, featured yearly in the Béla Rózsa Memorial Concert and is the performing ensemble for the TU Fall Commencement exercises. The ensemble also partners with TU School of Music students and faculty in various projects designed to provide realistic training for future professional orchestral musicians and conductors. The TU Symphony recently traveled to Washington DC to perform as an honor group at the College Orchestra Directors Association (CODA) National Conference. 
