Robert Xavier Rodríguez, Director


UTD's Chamber Music Ensemble provides opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students to perform music written for small and larger ensembles, plus multi-media and theater works, of all periods. Admission is by permission of Instructor. Intermediate and advanced instrumentalists (string, woodwind, brass, piano, guitar, percussion), singers, composers, actors, dancers and / or video artists may arrange auditions by calling 972- 883-2766 or 972-238-8703.

Students perform on UTD's Student Festival as well as on special campus events throughout the year. Students performing on UTD's Musica Nova concert series join professional musicans and members of the community. Musica Nova guest artists have included members of the Dallas Symphony and Dallas Opera Orchestra and singers from the New York City Opera and Metropolitan Opera. Music for past concerts has ranged from Medieval and Renaissance dances and motets to standard repertoire to experimental new works written for and /or developed by the ensemble. Concerts have included an evening of jigs, an evening of tangos, French cabaret and mariachi songs, chamber opera, ballet and, last semester, a fully-staged commedia dell'arte pantomime.

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