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Large Instrumental Ensembles
Rather than enrolling in a single ensemble, our instrumental students participate in fluid personnel pools, mirroring the professional world. Prior to the beginning of the academic year, students and their advisors build individualized plans of study from a menu of artistic and educational projects. The typical array of projects found within each curricular menu include groups that vary in size from small chamber music consorts of all kinds to large, “heritage ensembles,” including multiple orchestras and wind bands. Through a series of short-term projects, each student studies and performs music encompassing an extraordinary range of styles; moreover, projects often include world-class guest artists and unique, trans-disciplinary collaborations. This atypical curriculum demands that all students become more artistically diverse, while also advancing their musical depth, through intensive and regular short-term immersion in the study of masterpieces.
Student ensembles perform in an array of venues throughout our community and beyond, from schools, retirement centers, hospitals, and parks to galleries, concert halls, recordings and media broadcasts. The Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts School of Music large instrumental ensembles program gives students access to artistic/educational ventures of all kinds; develops an uncommon level of excellence in student musicianship; and maximizes ASU’s artistic impact on its community.