Graduate Students WOW Full Events Schedule

Audition information can be found on the Ensemble & Studio Placement Auditions webpage.


SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2024, THROUGH MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Available starting at 8 AM Sunday through 8 PM Monday
MUSIC THEORY AND AURAL SKILLS ENTRANCE EXAM FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
Online via Canvas
Students will receive an invitation via their UOregon email address to add the course.
MANDATORY for all new Music Graduate Students.


SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

1:00 PM-4:00 PM
ALL JAZZ GE & FACULTY MEETING
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 184


MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

TIMES VARY
UO INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENT ORIENTATION
Visit International Student and Scholar Services for more information.

9:00 AM-10:00 AM
GRADUATE SIGHT SINGING EXAMS
BY APPOINTMENT, IN PERSON
Frohnmayer Music Building Rooms 142 & 150
MANDATORY for all new Music Graduate Students; 4:30 PM-5:30 PM times are also available.

10:00 AM-12:00 PM
GRADUATE MUSIC HISTORY ENTRANCE EXAM
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 178
MANDATORY for all new Music Graduate Students.

12:00 PM-1:00 PM
SOMD GRADUATE STUDENT LUNCH
Music Courtyard & Foo Lounge
All SOMD Graduate Students (new and returning) are invited.

1:30 PM-3:00 PM
SOMD ORIENTATION & ACADEMIC ADVISING: NEW GRADUATE STUDENTS IN MM MUSIC EDUCATION, MM COMPOSITION, MM IMT
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 150
MANDATORY for new graduate students in degrees MM Music Ed, MM Composition, MM IMT, MA Musicology, and MA Music Theory​​​​​​​.

3:00 PM-4:30 PM
SOMD ORIENTATION & ACADEMIC ADVISING: NEW DOCTORAL GRADUATE STUDENTS 
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 150
MANDATORY for new graduate students in all doctoral degrees.

4:00 PM-5:00 PM
ADVISING MEETING: NEW JAZZ STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENTS
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 184

4:30 PM-5:30 PM
GRADUATE SIGHT SINGING EXAMS 
BY APPOINTMENT, IN PERSON
Frohnmayer Music Building Rooms 142 & 150
MANDATORY for all new Music Graduate Students; 9:00 AM time is also available.


TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

9:00 AM-11:30 AM
GRADUATE TEACHING FELLOWS FEDERATION (GTFF) ORIENTATION
GRADUATE EMPLOYEES
Straub Hall, Room 156  

11:00 AM-1:30 PM
GRADUATE STUDENT WELCOME LUNCH & RESOURCE FAIR
GRADUATES
Erb Memorial Union (EMU), Ballroom
RSVP through email from the Division of Graduate Studies


WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

9:30 AM-10:30 AM
VOICE GE MEETING
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 150

10:30 AM-12:00 PM
SOMD ORIENTATION & ACADEMIC ADVISING: NEW MM JAZZ/PERFORMANCE/CONDUCTING/CERTIFICATE
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 163
MANDATORY for new graduate students in degrees MM Jazz Studies, MM Performance, MM Conducting, Graduate Performance Certificate.

11:30 AM-12:30 PM
MUSICOLOGY GE MEETING
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 167
MANDATORY for new and returning graduate students who are Musicology GEs.

1:00 PM-2:50 PM
TEP LEADING DISCUSSION SECTIONS OR LABS FOR NEW GRADUATE EMPLOYEES IN MUSICOLOGY & MUSIC THEORY 
NEW GEs IN MUSICOLOGY AND MUSIC THEORY

2:30 PM-5:00 PM
JAZZ ENSEMBLE AUDITIONS: PIANO
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 184

6:30 PM-9:30 PM
JAZZ ENSEMBLE AUDITIONS: DRUM SET
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 184


THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

9:00 AM-10:20 AM
ENSEMBLE AUDITIONS: EUPHONIUM & TUBA
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 190

9:00 AM-12:00 PM
JAZZ ENSEMBLE AUDITIONS: BASS
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 184

10:00 AM-12:00 PM
NEW GRADUATE EMPLOYEE ORIENTATION
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 178

10:00 AM-4:00 PM
ENSEMBLE AUDITIONS: SELECT CHOIRS 
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 163
There will be three opportunities for choir auditions during week of welcome (Thursday, Friday and Sunday). Interested students need only to sign up for one audition time.

10:30 AM-11:40 AM
ENSEMBLE AUDITIONS: HORN
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 190

12:00 PM-3:00 PM
STUDIO PLACEMENT AUDITIONS: PIANO
Beall Concert Hall

12:30 PM-2:30 PM
JAZZ ENSEMBLE AUDITIONS: TROMBONE
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 184

1:00 PM-2:30 PM
ENSEMBLE AUDITIONS: TRUMPET
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 190

2:40 PM-3:55 PM
ENSEMBLE AUDITIONS: TROMBONE
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 190

3:00 PM-5:00 PM
PIANO PROFICIENCY EXAM FOR COMPOSITION MAJORS
BY APPOINTMENT, IN PERSON
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 363

3:00 PM-5:30 PM
JAZZ ENSEMBLE AUDITIONS: TRUMPET
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 184

4:00 PM-6:00 PM
UO OPERA ENSEMBLE AUDITIONS
Beall Concert Hall

4:05 PM-5:20 PM
JAZZ ENSEMBLE AUDITIONS: SAXOPHONE
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 184

6:00 PM-7:30 PM
ENSEMBLE & STUDIO PLACEMENT AUDITIONS: PERCUSSION
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 190
MANDATORY for both new and returning percussionists.

6:30 PM-8:30 PM
MERKER SCHOLARSHIP COMBO AUDITIONS
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 184


FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

8:00 AM-9:00 AM
MUSIC ED GRADUATE STUDENT MEETING 
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 140

8:30 AM-10:00 AM
ENSEMBLE AUDITIONS: FLUTE
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 190

9:00 AM-10:00 AM
MUSIC ED & NAfME INFORMATIONAL MEETING
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 140

9:00 AM-10:00 AM
STRING GE MEETING
GEs IN STRINGS
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 150

10:00 AM-11:00 AM
COMMUNITY MUSIC INSTITUTE SUZUKI STRING PROGRAM INSTRUCTOR MEETING
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 144
Required for all graduate students who are assigned to teach lessons in the Community Music Institute's Suzuki Strings Program.

10:10 AM-11:40 AM
ENSEMBLE AUDITIONS: CLARINET
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 190

10:00 AM-4:00 PM
ENSEMBLE AUDITIONS: SELECT CHOIRS 
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 163
There will be three opportunities for choir auditions during week of welcome (Thursday, Friday and Sunday). Interested students need only to sign up for one audition time.

11:00 AM-12:00 PM
KEYBOARD LAB ORIENTATION - REQUIRED FOR ALL GRADUATE EMPLOYEES IN KEYBOARD SKILLS & PIANO PEDAGOGY 
GEs IN KEYBOARD SKILLS AND PIANO PEDAGOGY
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 111 (Keyboard Lab)
MANDATORY for all GEs teaching in Keyboard Lab classroom.

11:50 AM-12:50 PM
ENSEMBLE AUDITIONS: BASSOON
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 190

1:00 PM-4:00 PM
JAZZ ENSEMBLE AUDITIONS: GUITAR
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 184

1:30 PM-2:30 PM
ENSEMBLE AUDITIONS: OBOE
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 190


SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

9:00 AM-5:00 PM
ENSEMBLE AUDITIONS: STRINGS (CELLO & BASS)
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 190

11:00 AM-2:30 PM
VOICE STUDIO PLACEMENT AUDITIONS: BMME CHORAL, BM VOICE, BA/BS APPLIED STUDY: VOICE, MM VOICE, MM CHORAL CONDUCTING, DMA VOICE, AND ALL VOICE SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS
Beall Concert Hall
Voice studio placement auditions are for MOST majors and scholarship recipients.


SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

9:00 AM-5:00 PM
ENSEMBLE AUDITIONS: STRINGS (VIOLIN & VIOLA)
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 190

1:00 PM-4:00 PM
ENSEMBLE AUDITIONS: SELECT CHOIRS 
Frohnmayer Music Building Room 163
There will be three opportunities for choir auditions during week of welcome (Thursday, Friday and Sunday). Interested students need only to sign up for one audition time.