What are the performance opportunities for composers at UM?
The University Symphony Orchestra does a concert of premieres of student orchestral work each year, and the Ann Arbor Symphony has performed one student work for the past several years. Large and small ensemble works can be submitted for inclusion on the Midwest Composers Symposium, a yearly gathering of the University of Cincinnati , Indiana, Iowa, and Michigan composition departments that rotates from school to school. The choral and wind ensembles are open to performing student work as well; in recent years the chamber choir and symphony band each performed student works. Numerous student works are commissioned by other students and performed on recitals; performance faculty have also sometimes performed or commissioned student works. Composition students here have been very active and supportive in performing each other’s work, and frequently organize their own concerts in the community. Recent examples were a concert of orchestra works that was entirely organized by a student, yea
