Performance repertoire includes multimedia, dance, electronic, opera, and chamber music. Both students and faculty participate as performers and composers. This music runs a gamut of styles, genres, and aesthetics. Some composers may provide only an oblique prose explanation of a work, while others require the performers to make choices within quite narrow guidelines. The Chamber Music Program at OU organizes student ensembles each semester.
Ensembles receive weekly coaching sessions from applied faculty.
Several chamber ensembles have been selected to participate in major festivals and competitions, most notably the Coleman Chamber Music Competition in Los Angeles, California. Director The University Choir is comprised of approximately sixty men and women, usually upperclassmen and advanced underclassmen. This choir performs in at least two formal concerts each semester and sings for University, civic, and invited music convention performances. A wide variety of music is performed. Director This choir is comprised of eighteen men and women, both upperclassmen and underclassmen.