Ensembles

All ensembles are open to the Tufts community and can be taken either for credit or for no credit. Some of our ensembles require auditions to determine placement; details are listed below for each ensemble. Musical excellence is highly valued, but competition for membership is far less intense than in music conservatories.

View 2024-2025 ensemble and audition information below. If a sign-up form is not accepting responses it will be updated by Thursday, August 22 at 10am.

Students dance as part of a performance by Kiniwe, the African Drum and Dance Ensemble of the Tufts Music Department.

African Music & Dance (Kiniwe)

* No audition required

Members of Tufts Arab Music Ensemble perform.

Arab Music Ensemble

* No audition required

Students congratulate each other after a performance of Chamber Music in Distler Hall.

Chamber Ensembles

* For auditions, email John Page

Early Music Ensemble participants play the viola da gamba and recorders in a performance.

Early Music Ensemble

* Audition information and sign-up

A Tufts student performs on a Moog synthesizer in the Electronic Music Ensemble.

Electronic Music Ensemble

* No audition required

* Meets in spring semester

Four flutists perform in the Flute Ensemble concert in Distler Hall.

Flute Ensemble

* Audition information and sign-up

A Tufts students sing a solo as David Coleman directed the Gospel Choir in the background.

Gospel Choir

* No audition required

A close-up shot of Gamelan instruments used in the Gamelan performance in Fisher Performance Room.

Javanese Gamelan (Rinengga Sih Tentrem)

* No audition required

Tufts students perform a variety of instruments in the Tufts Jazz Orchestra.

Jazz Orchestra and Small Jazz Ensembles

* Audition information and sign-up

The Klezmer Ensemble performs in the Distler Performance Hall.

Klezmer Ensemble (Jumbo Knish Factory)

* No audition required

A close-up of a violinist performing as part of the New Music Ensemble.

New Music Ensemble

* No audition required

Members of the Tufts Opera Ensemble perform a scene from the opera “An Embarrassing Position.”

Opera Ensemble

* Audition information and sign-up

Members of the Tufts Pep Band cheer on the Tufts Football team.

Pep Band

* No audition required

A close up of a Tufts student violist performing in Distler Hall.

Private Lessons

* REQUIRED: Meeting with Edith Auner. Sign-up sheet for meetings posted on office door at Granoff Music Center, Room 178.

Students perform in the Tufts Symphony Orchestra performance in Distler Hall.

Symphony and Chamber Orchestra

* New student audition sign-up

* Returning student audition sign-up

Members of the Tufts Choruses perform under the direction of Jamie Kirsch.

Tufts Choirs

* No audition required

A photo of composition professor John McDonald, at the piano in Distler Hall.

Tufts Composers

* No audition required

Students in the Wind Ensemble perform in the Distler Performance Hall.

Wind Ensemble

* Audition information and sign-up