AREAS OF STUDY - STRINGS
OPPORTUNITES

String Performance Opportunities
There are a variety of opportunities for string majors, minors, and College of Liberal Arts students. Students may elect to participate through auditions held during the beginning of each semester.

DePauw Symphony Orchestra
The DePauw University Orchestra, one of the oldest university orchestra programs in the United States, maintain an active schedule. The DePauw Symphony Orchestra, an all-undergraduate organization, focuses on performing and reading music of the standard repertoire creating a four-year overview that is a cross-section of music including most style periods, regional influences and genres. The DePauw Symphony Orchestra won an ASCAP Award for “Adventuresome Programming of Contemporary Music” in 1991. It was featured in May and June of 1996 on USAirways in-flight program “Ovation” performing works of Stravinsky, Mussorgsky and Grieg.

The Orchestra not only performs its own concerts (often broadcast live on WGRE-FM and the Internet), it plays for DePauw Opera productions, accompanies student Concerto Winners, and performs with the University Choirs with faculty and guest soloists. Conducting class and Orchestration class students also have benefit of time working with the DePauw Symphony Orchestra.

String Chamber Music
Offered each semester as a chamber ensemble. String students examine string repertoire or additional instruments.

Master Classes
Master teachers are brought to campus to lead instructional and performance classes working with DePauw string students. Recent clinicians include Baroque violinist Stanley Ritche, bassist Ju-Fang Liu, and internationally renowned violinist Federico Agostini.

Off-Campus Study
There are opportunities for semester study abroad or domestically in the US. Locations recently selected for study include Vienna, Milan, Paris, London, Dresden, New York, Philadelphia, Florence.

For further information, contact:
Eric Edberg, Professor
Coordinator, String Area
School of Music
DePauw University
Greencastle, IN 46135
765-658-4384; eedberg@depauw.edu