The ASU Symphony Orchestra provides its members with intensive orchestral training and professional level artistic performance experience. The ASUSO performs challenging and diverse repertoire chosen to help emerging professional musicians develop a wide range of skills and aptitudes. Rich concert programming offers audiences and the greater arts community opportunities to engage with major works of the orchestral canon as well as cutting-edge works of our time. Exploring the full creative range of the contemporary symphony orchestra, the ASUSO seeks to perform canonical works with technical excellence and artistry while also pushing musical boundaries through innovative multi-disciplinary collaborations.

The ASU Symphony Orchestra aims to extend student learning through rich interactions with professional artists. ASU faculty are closely involved with their students’ orchestral experience and regularly lead orchestral sectionals. The ASU orchestras also maintain a vibrant relationship with the Phoenix Symphony with frequent guest artist visits in both sectional rehearsals and side-by-side rehearsal contexts.

Learn more about our program at musicdancetheatre.asu.edu/ensembles/orchestras.

The ASU Wind Ensemble, made up of the finest woodwind, brass and percussion players on campus, has the flexibility to perform the highest quality wind band works, as well as chamber music of all kinds.

The students share in this commitment, aspiring to the highest possible standards of musical excellence and maximizing their own trajectory by setting personal goals for the productive use of ensemble rehearsal time. Balancing the needs of the community with those of the individual, the ensembles study and perform a range of wind band repertory on campus and throughout the Valley.

ASU Wind Bands, located in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre at Arizona State University, honors its rich history while reflecting the “state of the art” through dynamic and innovative performances. They have performed multiple times at national conventions of the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA), the American Bandmasters Association (ABA), the Music Educators’ National Conference (MENC), and at the Midwest International Clinic.

Learn more about our program at musicdancetheatre.asu.edu/ensembles/wind-bands.