UCA Bands

10/10/2026

How many different ways can the BMB say it? We are cheering on our Bears from Conway! Get your Bear Claws up! IT’S GAME DAY! 🐻 University of Central Arkansas University of Central Arkansas Athletics UCA Bears Football

10/09/2026

DON'T MISS YOUR CHANCE! The APPLICATION DEADLINE for the 15th Annual UCA HS Honors Wind Ensemble application form is Wednesday, October 14! We would like to invite advanced high school musicians to apply for this special event. We can't wait for your to spend time with our amazing community of students and faculty, perform in our beautiful Windgate Concert Hall, and to meet composer-in-residence John Mackey!

The application form is designed so that students can fill out the application, then it is automatically routed to the band director for approval, and then to the parent for final approval.

www.uca.edu/bands for all info and links to...
UCA HS Honors Wind Ensemble Info Letter
UCA HS Honors Wind Ensemble Application

Please email UCA Director of Bands Dominic Talanca at [email protected] with any questions you may have. Go Bears!

09/29/2026

The UCA Symphonic Band takes the stage at the Windgate Center for Fine and Performing Arts tonight at 7:30 PM! You won't want to miss it! Join us in person or online! UCA College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences University of Central Arkansas Department of Music

09/28/2026

Check out this amazing article by our friends at 501 LIFE Magazine about our wonderful drum major, Taryn Wells and her mother, Marcy McArthur Wells. Marcy was the Bear Marching Band’s first female drum major, and her daughter is carrying on the family’s tremendous legacy in 2026. We are so proud of both of them and grateful for everything they have done and continue to do for our university! Go Bears! 🐻

By Rita Halter Thomas On a hot late-summer day in Conway, Taryn Wells stepped onto the field at Estes Stadium as drum major of the University of Central Arkansas Bear Marching Band. More than three decades earlier, her mother, Marcy McArthur Wells, stepped onto the same field as UCA’s first femal

09/25/2026

We hope to see you in person or online for the UCA Band Department's first concerts of the 2026-27 academic year!

Symphonic Band: Tuesday, September 29, 7:30 PM
Wind Ensemble: Sunday, October 4, 5:00 PM

Performances take place at the Windgate Center for Fine and Performing Arts! UCA College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Windgate Center for Fine and Performing Arts Doreen Ketchens

09/23/2026

Check out a preview of our New Orleans show, which will debut in a couple of weeks! We can’t wait to perform it for many folks throughout Central Arkansas! Go Bears! 🐻

09/22/2026

📣 Attention prospective Bears! Come be a part of our special community of musicians at UCA. Music Auditions are of course for prospective music majors and music minors, but they are also for those who want to be considered for scholarship awards through participation in music ensembles during their college years! Got Questions??? Reach out and let's discuss. Go Bears! 🐻

09/21/2026

We have wonderfully talented faculty at UCA! Join our Tuba/Euphonium professor, Dr. Gail Robertson, and one of our amazing Piano professors, Dr. Kazuo Murakami, for a recital on Tuesday, September 22, at 7:30 PM at the Windgate Center for Fine and Performing Arts!

09/18/2026

It is now time to highlight our second-year graduate conducting associate - Caleb! Prospective students and future bears 🐻 - applications are open for undergraduate and graduate music degree programs! Substantial scholarship awards are also available. It's a great time to be a UCA BEAR!