Recently the ensemble commissioned a major work for woodwind quintet by the American composer Robert Muczynski. The Quintet has produced a compact disk recording that is currently commercially available. The Faculty String Quartet enriches the University, community and state with performances of chamber music and with regular collaborations with other artists from among the School of Music Faculty. Director The Symphony Orchestra is a full ninety-piece orchestra which provides performance opportunities for instrumental students. During the Spring semester, winners of the annual Concerto Competition are featured.
Students rotate seating in various sections of the orchestra to help train future section leaders.
Wind Ensemble, conducted by Dr. William Wakefield, features approximately forty-five graduate and undergraduate student musicians. Although the majority of the members are music majors, non-majors compete equally for the positions through auditions held at the beginning of the semester. In two to three concerts each semester, the ensemble performs the finest new and standard works for winds and percussion. The Wind Ensemble has received invitations to perform for six conventions in the past seven years including the College Band Directors National Association, the American Bandmasters Association and the Oklahoma Music Educators Association. In 1987, the Pride received the Sudler Trophy in recognition of longtime outstanding achievement in the college marching band field by college band directors across the nation.