Free Admission
Register by Friday, October 24th: Wildcat Music Experience Registration
(Separate forms available for students and teachers)
The Wildcat Music Experience is a new, vibrant, free event with immersive music making, experiential learning, and social interaction for high school music students.
Center to the day will be a captivating Collage Concert, showcasing current students at the School of Music. There will also be opportunities to attend engaging lectures, music clinics, and ensemble rehearsals, as well as sessions on University and School of Music admissions. Individual student/faculty meetings are available on request.
Open call: All high school student musicians and their teachers are invited to campus! High school juniors and seniors who would like to participate and/or major in music in college are especially encouraged to attend. Lunch is included. Note: participants with special dietary restrictions are encouraged to bring their own lunch.
Register by Friday, Oct. 24
Wildcat Music Experience Registration
(Separate forms available for students and teachers)
Contact:
Dr. Philip Alejo – palejo@arizona.edu
Dr. Kelsey Nussbaum – knuss@arizona.edu
Sample Schedule
9:30a … Welcome and Registration
10a … Session One (participants choice)
- From Friars to Frozen 2: The Dies Irae Through the Ages
- Performing Colombian Folk Music Rhythms
- Songwriting and Earworms
- Open house: Piano Lab
- Open house: Recording Studio
11a … Collage Concert in Crowder Hall
Noon … Lunch
- Peer-to-peer guided interaction with UA students
- UA and School of Music Admissions session
1p … Session Two (participants’ choice)
- La La Land and the Legacy of Classic Hollywood Musicals
- Mexican Music and Culture
- Storytelling with Music
- Open house: Piano Lab
- Open house: Recording Studio
- Ensemble observation: Studio Jazz Ensemble
2p … Open Studios / Ensemble Observation
- Faculty open studios: meet individually with an instrumental and voice teacher
- Ensemble observation: Arizona Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Choir
3p … Depart
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