To Prospective Members:

Join Us!

We're happy to recruit you if we know who you are! Here are some reasons to come to UCD with the intention of playing in the UCD Symphony Orchestra:

The overall UCD undergraduate experience, which (among other things) continues to offer a wider variety of majors, dual majors, and minors than anywhere in the United States.

A first-rate full symphony orchestra composed of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, and members of the university community from every walk of life.

Our record of placing our members in the best graduate and professional schools in the country—including med school.

Financial incentives. We aren't rich, but we do participate directly in award decisions for the William Valente Scholarships for Incoming Students (offered by the Department of Music), and the end-of-year Fannie Kopald Stein, Olga Brose Valente, and David Saxon Awards in music performance. We engage some half dozen of our undergraduate members in paid staff positions with the libraries and crew. We recommend many others for scholarships, awards, and prizes in the overall campus undergraduate pool.

Here's how:

Apply to UCDavis by the announced deadline.

Notify D. Kern Holoman, conductor, of your interests and qualifications—well before the decision dates for admission and financial aid. Many candidates for admission arrange an appointment during their visits to campus; others send resumés with a tape or CD. Again: we can't help if we don't know you're interested.

To apply for the Music Department's William Valente Scholarship for Incoming Students, contact Professorn Holoman or one of the other Undergraduate Advisers.

Once you have accepted admission to UCDavis, notify us again. Come visit on Picnic Day or during Summer Advising; plan to audition (if you have not already done so) during the Orientation Days preceding Fall Quarter. We usually try to have the orchestra constituted by the time of the chancellor's Fall Convocation, which is usually on the Wednesday morning preceding the first day of classes.

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