Fort Lewis College offers many bands and ensembles for students and several opportunities to participate in the orchestra.
The Fort Lewis College Symphonic Band is one of Colorado's premier bands. The band is an open enrollment ensemble representing students from a variety of majors across campus. About 65 percent of the ensemble's 70 members are music majors or minors. The Symphonic Band meets three days per week and performs four major concerts each year. The ensemble's repertoire ranges from traditional band works to more modern compositions.
The Jazz Ensemble is the college's premier jazz group that performs several concerts each year, both on and off campus. The ensemble performs a wide variety of literature associated with the jazz idiom, from standards to modern works written and arranged by local and national composers. The Jazz Ensemble is featured each winter term at the Four Corners Jazz Festival.
The Jazz Combo provides the opportunity for students who wish to improve improvisational skills and performance ability in a smaller setting. The group performs a variety of styles from swing to Latin music.
The San Juan Symphony is a semi-professional orchestra. The symphony maintains a cooperative relationship with Fort Lewis College, and both faculty and students are members of the orchestra.
The SJS plays concerts in both Durango, CO and Farmington, NM. The schedule includes a subscription series concert as well as a children's program.
The following select ensembles provide the opportunity to study and perform literature for a wide range of specific instrumentations. Admission is by audition, and musicians participate in several on-campus performances as well as clinics/concerts in schools and community venues throughout the region.
Baroque Ensemble, which features performers dressed in period costumes.
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