2025-26 Ensemble Audition Information
Whitworth Music Ensemble auditions for prospective AND returning members are open to all Whitworth students!
Don’t want to audition? Register for one of our non-auditioned groups!
- Whitworth Community Concert Band (MU 267/467)
- Ponderosa Tenor/Bass Choir (MU-277/477)
- Whitworth Community Chorale (MU-279/479)
Jazz Ensembles, Jazz Combos
All students interested in auditioning for the Whitworth Jazz Orchestra, Studio Jazz Orchestra, and all jazz combos, click here for music and instructions.
Sign up here for your audition time.
If you have questions, please email Professor Jared Hall at jhall@whitworth.edu.
Wind Symphony/Concert Band
Students auditioning for Whitworth Wind Symphony should download the music for their instrument here.
If you have questions, please email Professor Richard Strauch at rstrauch@whitworth.edu.
Whitworth Community Concert Band does not require an audition to join! You may simply register for the class (MU 267 or MU 467). However, if you are a music major or are receiving a wind symphony scholarship, you MUST play a wind symphony audition.
Orchestra membership for winds, brass and percussion is determined through the wind symphony auditions; there is no need to audition separately for the orchestra.
Symphony Orchestra
All string players (incoming and returning) must audition for orchestra seating.
Please sign up for an audition time slot here.
Students auditioning for Whitworth Symphony Orchestra should download the music for their instrument here.
Please sign up for an audition time slot here.
For more information, please click here.
If you have questions, please email Professor Baldwin at pbaldwin@whitworth.edu.
Orchestra membership for winds, brass and percussion is determined through the wind symphony auditions; there is no need to audition separately for the orchestra. Students with an orchestra wind scholarship will be automatically enrolled, depending on orchestration needs.
Whitworth Choir, Forest Treble Choir, Ponderosa Tenor/Bass Choir
Students interested in auditioning for the Whitworth Choir and/or the Forest Treble Choir can download audition materials and instructions and sign up for an audition time slot here.
Please direct questions to Assistant Professor Xiaosha Lin (xlin@whitworth.edu).
No audition or previous choral or musical experience is required for membership in the Ponderosa Tenor/Bass Choir. The only prerequisite is an ability to "carry a tune”! Contact Professor Scott Miller for additional information (smiller@whitworth.edu).
No audition or previous choral or musical experience is required for membership in the Whitworth Community Chorale The only prerequisite is an ability to "carry a tune”! Contact Director Scott Davis for additional information (sdavis@whitworth.edu).