Welcome!
Seventy members strong, the Wichita State University Symphony Orchestra is an auditioned
ensemble comprised of undergraduate and graduate students. Students from any academic
discipline with performing experience are welcome to audition. The orchestra has performed
in Carnegie Hall and internationally (Spain, Canada), as well at the Midwest International
Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago and the state conference of the Kansas Music
Educators Association. Recent collaborations include performances with operatic bass
Samuel Ramey, jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton, the classic
rock band Kansas, and the arena multimedia concert Video Games Live.
Symphony Orchestra Auditions
WSU Symphony Orchestra auditions for woodwind and brass students will be held Friday,
August 19. Auditions for string students will be held Monday, August 22. Please see
the link below for more specific audition information.
WSU Symphony Orchestra Concerts
September 22, 2022, with David Hunsicker, faculty trumpet, at 7:30 pm in Miller Concert
Hall
October 20, 2022, Ellis Island: The Dream of America, at 7:30 pm in Miller Concert Hall
November 28, 2022, with Lynne Davis, faculty organ, at 7:30 p.m. in Wiedemann Hall
February 14, 2023, Concerto-Aria Concert at 7:30 p.m. in Miller Concert Hall
April 30, 2023, Oratorio Concert at 3:00 p.m. in Miller Concert Hall
WSU Symphony joins forces with Opera Theater
March 31-April 1, 2023, at 7:30 pm in Miller Concert Hall
Click here for more information on the above concerts and to purchase tickets.
Program Highlights
- Three major performances each semester
- Opera productions, oratorios, annual concerto competition
- Repertoire spanning nearly 300 years of standard orchestral literature
- Recent highlights include Beethoven’s Sixth and Ninth Symphonies, Tchaikovsky’s Fourth
and Sixth Symphonies, Brahms’s First Symphony, Stravinsky’s Petrushka Suite, and Shostakovich’s
Sixth Symphony.
- Opportunity for private study with world-class faculty: Timothy Jones, violin; Catherine
Consiglio, viola; Leonid Shukaev, cello; and Mark Foley, double bass
- Students from any academic discipline are welcome to audition
Notable Alumni
Eric Crawford, string bass
•Orchestra Director, Wichita East High School
•Orchestra Curriculum Coach, Wichita Public Schools
•Conductor, Wichita Symphony Repertory Orchestra
Jonathan Dozois, horn
•Second horn, Symphoira
Second horn and personnel manager, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra
Horn professor, Roberts Weleyan College
Edwin Livingston, double bass
•Los Angeles-based studio musician
•Jazz studies faculty, USC Thornton School of Music
•Grammy-nominated bassist for Los Hombres Calientes
Susan Spector, oboe
•Second Oboist, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New York City
Daniel Whistler, horn
•Director of Orchestras, Youth Performing Arts School, Louisville, Kentucky
•First Prizewinner, The American Prize in Conducting, High School Orchestra Division
