2018-2019

"Spring Concert" - May 1st, 2019

Wind Ensemble

Rickey H. Badua, conductor

  • Jack Stamp - Gavorkna Fanfare
  • Vincent Persichetti - Divertimento
      • Dr. Brian Diller, guest conductor (Old Dominion University)
  • David Kopplin - Awamori Blue (World Premiere)
        • Featuring: Buzz Gravelle (SanShen)
  • Leonard Bernstein/Sweeney - Mambo from "Westside Story"

Symphonic Winds

Gregory X. Whitmore, conductor

  • Michael Markowski - Reckoning
  • Percy Grainger - Australian Up Country Tune
  • Steven Mahpar - Journey's End

"Journeys" - March 13th, 2019

*Adam Schoenberg, composer-in-residence

Wind Ensemble

Rickey H. Badua, conductor

  • John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine
  • Aaron Copland - Variations on a Shaker Melody
  • Adam Schoenberg - Rise (World Premiere)
  • Michael Daugherty - Lost Vegas

Symphonic Winds

Gregory X. Whitmore, conductor

  • Johann Strauss Sr./Foeller - Radetzky March
  • Brian Balmages - Rippling Watercolors
  • Claude T. Smith - Fantasia for Alto Sax & Band

"Something Old, New, Borrowed & Blue" - December 5th, 2018

*Frank Ticheli, guest conductor-in-residence

Wind Ensemble

Rickey H. Badua, conductor

  • Gustav Holst - Second Suite in F
  • J.S. Bach/Grainger - O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß
  • Frank Ticheli - Blue Shades

Symphonic Winds

Gregory X. Whitmore, conductor

  • Julie Giroux - One Life Beautiful
  • Frank Ticheli- Simple Gifts
  • Dmitri Shostakovich/Reynolds - Folk Dances

"PLACES" - October 17th, 2018

Wind Ensemble

Rickey H. Badua, conductor

  • Gustav Holst/Jacobs - Moorside March
  • Wayne Oquin - A Solemn Place
  • Adam Schoenberg - Picture Studies
  • Michael Daugherty - Niagara Falls

Symphonic Winds

Gregory X. Whitmore, conductor

  • Cait Nishimura - Chasing Sunlight
  • David Biedenbender - Unquiet Hours
  • John Mackey - Lightning Field
  • Michael Markowski - Shine