Franklin & Marshall College

This program, sponsored by the Music Department and Instrumental Music Honor Society, provides opportunities for new students to engage with upper classmen, music faculty, and the Lancaster arts community before the semester even begins. Students do not need to be an intended music major to participate.

First-year student participants arrive to campus early and settle in before the rest of the first-year students. Musicians can complete the audition process for instrumental ensembles without the stress of fitting in practice time during general orientation.

If the student desires, they can also participate in a one-on-one coaching session with a faculty member and/or an upper-classman instrumentalist before music ensemble auditions.

Instrumental auditions are 10 minutes in length. For the audition, performers are asked to prepare a piece that they feel comfortable with and to prepare major scales, up to three sharps and three flats, in as many octaves as they are interested in playing.

Note: If you're planning to participate in the Instrumental Music Pre-Orientation, please do not sign up for other pre-orientation programs such as international student or PIT. You'll miss out on important activities in the instrumental music pre-orientation.

The fee is $75 payable with cash or check (made payable to Mu Upsilon Sigma). Checks can be mailed to:

Franklin & Marshall College
Music Department
P. O. Box 3003
Lancaster, PA 17604
 

Register here for the Instrumental Music Pre-Orientation.