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Performance Program for Music Majors
Private Instructor Contact Information
Link to applications for Noon Concert Auditions and Concerto Competition
Performance plays an essential part in the life of the department, and all students are strongly encouraged to participate. The performance groups, most of them administered as courses, cater to a variety of interests and many are open by audition to members of the community; they include the University Symphony, Wind Ensemble, University Chorus, Chamber Chorus, University Baroque Ensemble, Gospel Chorus, African Music Ensemble, and Central Javanese Gamelan.
The Wednesday Noon Concert, a weekly event open by audition to performers associated with the University, attracts an audience from the entire Bay Area. Student-run concert series include the Berkeley New Music Project, a society of student composers that organizes concerts of student compositions. In addition, the campus presents a distinguished concert series featuring international artists in music, drama, and dance; and the week-long Berkeley Festival & Exhibition, held every other summer, fills all available local venues with its concerts, symposia, and exhibits.
Auditions for Performance Ensembles (140 series)
Sign up on bulletin board outside 104 Morrison Hall. In general, auditions for the various performance ensembles are held during the week before classes; some groups also audition the first week of classes. For specific audition dates and times, see each performing group.This information is updated as available. Music majors who are interested in participating in the department's ensembles should see the information specifically for music majors.
Information on access to practice rooms
Music of West Africa taught by a Ghanaian master drummer.
This grammy-winning ensemble has been praised by the New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and Opera News alike as "excellent," "splendid," "electric." "The UC Chamber Chorus leaves no syllable unarticulated and no musical marvel unexplored" (San Francisco Examiner).
Music of the African American gospel tradition with particular emphasis on contemporary performance techniques.
Traditional music of Indonesia, performed on the Music Department's Gamelan Khyai Udan Mas, donated by Sam and Louise Scripps, who also donated an equally beautiful set of shadow puppets which are used in shadow play performances. Students in the beginning class learn to play many of the instruments in the gamelan. Intermediate and advanced students may learn the more difficult instruments. Concert repertoire consists of traditional and contemporary gamelan compositions. Public performances may also feature Indonesian shadow play.
Jazz and Contemporary Improvised Music Ensemble
An intermediate-advanced repertoire ensemble performing music that incorporates experimental practices in contemporary improvised music, encompassing several styles of music and a variety of approaches.
Instrumental and vocal performance of Renaissance and Baroque music.
The University Baroque Ensemble is seeking singers, players of string and wind instruments, as well as players of keyboard,
lute, and guitar with continuo experience.
Critics have called the University Chorus "very impressive in sonority, quality of tone, and expressiveness." (San Francisco Chronicle) and “flawless.” (San Francisco Classical Voice March 2006). From Slavonic chant to standard choral-orchestral repertoire to contemporary music, this large chorus performs an exciting variety of literature.
Music majors auditioning for Music 150A will audition during the orchestra audition times (see detailed audition information). For more information about Music 150A see: http://music.berkeley.edu/music150.html
Sign up on the bulletin board outside 104 Morrison Hall.Bold programming and high artistic standards have made this one of the country's finest university orchestras. Not only a pre-professional training orchestra, but a major performing ensemble in the Bay Area as well.
Performing course for the study and practice of traditional and contemporary wind band repertoire
Updated 1/6/2009
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