Auditions

Orchestras

The Fall 2022 WIU Orchestra String Auditions will be on Monday, August 22. Detailed schedule will be sent out in August.
All string players (new and returning) must submit using the Audition Form.

Link to Required Excerpts for Music-Majors (You must be logged in to your WIU email to access the files)
All music majors:
- Prepare excerpts from the Ravel/Mussorsky Pictures at an Exhibition and Beethoven Symphony No. 5.
- If you want to be considered for concertmaster/principal, please also prepare the Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence (4th mvt).
Non-majors: Please prepare 1-2 pieces of your choice OR prepare the required music-major excerpts
Contact Dr. Kenny Lee, Director of Orchestral Activities (K-Lee6@wiu.edu) for any questions.

RRead carefully through the excerpt list. Listen to recordings of each work. Make observations in your listening such as tempo, the characters/moods of each excerpt as well as the entire movement, phrasing ideas, the accompanying instruments, the passage's difficulties, and the overall effectiveness of the recorded performance.
Play with a recording, if desired.
Record yourself and listen back to hear yourself objectively (as if you were on the audition committee)