About the OSU Symphony Orchestra
The Oklahoma State University Symphony Orchestra provides symphonic performance experiences in a wide range of musical styles and periods for string, wind, brass, and percussion performers at Oklahoma State University. The award-winning OSU Symphony Orchestra strives to attain the highest possible level of artistic achievement, providing personal and professional growth opportunities for students through study of great orchestral music. Through collaboration, we strive to create a create a musical community through a common understanding of musical works.
The Symphony Orchestra rehearses Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 1:30-3:20 throughout the semester and presents four concerts per semester. The Symphony Orchestra presents great works from the standard orchestral literature, from Bach, Beethoven and Brahms to Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky to American composers like Copland, Márquez, Beach, Price, and Montgomery, as well as newly-composed and interdisciplinary works.
The Orchestra performs on and off-campus at OSU and is led by the Director of Orchestral Studies in conjunction with Graduate Students in Orchestral Conducting.
OSU also offers the Cowboy Community Orchestra, which meets on Mondays from 6:30-8:30pm in the Greenwood School of Music, for students, alumni, faculty, staff, and Stillwater community members looking for a fun opportunity to perform on their instruments.
For more information on the Orchestras at OSU, please contact Luca Antonucci, Director of Orchestral Studies.