Audition Information
Registration for Fall 2025 Concert Band placement is closed. If you would still like to audition, we will host two open blocks of time for unscheduled auditions- Saturday, 11:00-12:30, and Sunday, Noon-2:30.
Email bands@uark.edu or call (479) 575-4100 if you have any questions.
Auditions for the Fall, 2025 Wind Ensemble and Wind Symphony will be held Saturday, August 16 and Sunday, August 17 in the Epley Band Building. Any University of Arkansas student, regardless of major, may audition.
Beginning July 1, practice rooms are available in the Epley Band Building on weekdays, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. Beginning August 1, practice rooms will be available 8:00 am to 10:00 pm.
Placement in the concert bands will be based on musicianship, tone quality, intonation, rhythm, and style. Auditions will include, in this order:
- Etude #1: 35% - This excerpt is from The Road if Life by James David.
- Etude #2: 35%
- Two (2) memorized major scales (judge’s selection of scales) :10%
- Sight reading: 20%
Using a 100-point scale, there is a minimum score of 20 needed to qualify for placement in the bands. In the unlikely event that there is an incomplete instrumentation in any of the bands, additional scholarships will not be awarded to students to fill incomplete instrumentations.
Percussion Audition Materials
As you begin to plan your Fall semester schedule, please note the rehearsal schedule for the Fall concert bands:
Wind Ensemble (Dr. Knighten) - MUEN 16901, 26901, 36901, 46901, 48601, 56901
MWF, 12:55-2:15
Wind Symphony (Mr. Jones) - MUEN 14601, 24601, 34601, 44601, 46601, 54601
MWF, 12:55-2:15
Best wishes with your audition preparation. Please reach out to knighten@uark.edu if you have any questions!
Dr. Chris Knighten
Director of Bands
Wind Ensemble and Wind Symphony
Fall auditions for the Wind Ensemble and Wind Symphony are scheduled the two days before the first day of classes.
Spring auditions are scheduled during the two weeks prior to the end of the fall semester.
Audition materials can be obtained six weeks prior to the audition dates by logging into the University of Arkansas Bands SharePoint page. If you have questions, please email us at bands.uark.edu.
Symphonic Band, 4 O'clock Band, 5 O'clock Band
Auditions for the spring semester are scheduled during the two weeks prior to the end of the fall semester.
Audition materials can be obtained six weeks prior to the audition dates by logging into the University of Arkansas Bands SharePoint page. If you have questions, please email us at bands.uark.edu.