Baylor Trombone Choir

The Baylor Trombone Choir consists of students pursing Bachelors of Music in Education, Performance, Bachelors of Arts, and Masters in Performance.  The Baylor Trombone Choir has been a featured guest at the Big XII Trombone Conference at Texas Tech on two occasions and was recently invited to perform at the 2008 Eastern Trombone Workshop in Washington D.C.  The Baylor Trombone Choir has also performed at the Texas Music Educators Association convention and was invited to appear at both the 2010 Big XII conference and International Trombone Festival held at the University of Texas at Austin.

The Baylor Trombone Choir has performed with numerous guest artist at the semi annual Baylor Trombone Day to include: Amanda Stewart, Ronald Barron, Wycliffe Gordon, Peter Ellefson, Joseph Alessi, Ilan Morgenstern, and Tim Higgins.  The Baylor Trombone Choir received honorable mention twice in the International Trombone Association’s Emory Remington Trombone Choir Competition.  The choir was also awarded runner up in the 2009 competition.

Instrumental Ensembles

Baylor’s instrument ensembles are some of the most recognized in the country for their commitment to excellence and high musical standard.  Baylor ensembles are frequent guests at prestigious events such as the Texas Music Educators Association Convention, and the College Band Directors National Association Convention.  Students participating in Baylor ensembles are often afforded opportunities usually saved for professional ensembles.  In the Fall of 2010 the Baylor Chamber Orchestra took a multi-city tour of Belgium and the Wind Ensemble began a two year recording project with the end result being a full length professionally mastered CD.   The Spring semester brings guest artists such as professional trumpeters Terrell Stafford and Joey Tartell to give master classes and solo with the Jazz Ensemble, as the principal trombonist of the New York Philharmonic, Joseph Alessi, who will perform John Mackey’s “Harvest: Concerto for Trombone” with the Baylor Wind Ensemble in the Eisemann Center (Richardson, TX) during their April tour of the Dallas area.  For more information about Baylor Ensembles, visit the ensembles section of the school of music website.

Baylor Orchestras

THE BAYLOR SYMPHONY - MR. STEVEN HEYDE

MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY - 11:15 AM -12:35 PM

The Baylor Symphony has an extensive performance schedule on and off campus, annually presenting four concerts of standard orchestral repertoire, a full opera production, and other events such as concerto accompaniments, new music readings and choral/orchestral collaborations. The orchestra also presents a series of children's concerts each year to an audience of over 6000 Waco area school children, an unbroken tradition since 1946.

Baylor Bands

THE BAYLOR WIND ENSEMBLE - DR. J. ERIC WILSON

MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY - 2:35-3:45 PM

The Baylor University Wind Ensemble, organized in 1972, is guided by a philosophy that seeks to expose its students and its audiences to the highest quality music written or transcribed for wind instruments, representing all periods of music history. The repertoire of the ensemble represents selections ranging from music of the Renaissance to world premieres for wind band.

THE BAYLOR SYMPHONIC BAND - DR. ISAIAH ODAJIMA

MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY - 12:50-2:10 PM

The Baylor University Symphonic Band is comprised of advanced musicians (both music majors and non-music majors) selected from auditions held during the week prior to the beginning of the fall semester. The Symphonic Band rehearses on MWF from 12:50 p.m. to 2:10 p.m. The ensemble performs a wide array of repertoire including chamber works, masterworks for band, and contemporary wind literature. The ensemble typically performs three concerts each semester.

Baylor Jazz

THE BAYLOR JAZZ ENSEMBLE - MR. ALEX PARKER
TUESDAY & THURSDAY - 5:00-6:30 PM

The large jazz ensembles, the Baylor Jazz Ensemble and the Concert Jazz Ensemble, provide students with the opportunity to play the music of the swing era to the music of the cutting edge big bands of today. The Baylor Jazz Ensemble is our premiere jazz ensemble that performs many concerts both on and off campus throughout the school year.

THE BAYLOR CONCERT JAZZ ENSEMBLE - MR. ALEX PARKER
TUESDAY & THURSDAY - 2:00-3:15 PM

JAZZ COMBO - MR. ALEX PARKER, DR. EDWARD J. TAYLOR
BY APPOINTMENT

Jazz small groups meet weekly throughout the school year. These groups of between 4-9 students provide our students with the opportunity to perform in the improvisationally based small group setting. It also provides the students the opportunity to put into practical use the information discussed in their improvisation classes, the arranging classes and the jazz history class.

Chamber Ensembles

BRASS CHAMBER MUSIC - ALL BRASS FACULTY
TUESDAY, THURSDAY - 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

The chamber music experience at Baylor is a vital part of both the BM and BME programs.  Required chamber music study at Baylor provides students with the requisite skills needed to compete professionally. Collaborative skills necessary for work as a musician and educator are honed in these chamber music settings and enhance the overall quality and professionalism of Baylor's large ensembles. Serious time spent in chamber rehearsals and performance increase the efficiency and section cohesiveness in the Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band.