Concert Band Concerts

 

The next Stony Brook Wind Ensemble Concert
will take place on
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at 7:30p.

All regular-season concerts are held on the Main Stage
of the Staller Center for the Performing Arts
on the campus of Stony Brook University.

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2024-2025 Concert Season Repertoire

• Wednesday, November 20, 2024

  The GRACE IN BEING
  
  Discomfort... Haunted Objects (Tsukumogami) (2024) by John Mackey
  Rest... Rest (2011) by Frank Ticheli
  Struggle... Music for the Struggling Soul (2020) by Luis David González Carmona
  Sleep... Sleep (2000) by Eric Whitacre
  Grace... The Grace in Being (2013) by Julie Giroux
  Reflect... Remembering (2023) by Baljinder Singh Sekhon, II
  Love... Halcyon Hearts (2021) by Katahj Copley

• Thursday, December 5, 2024 (NYSSMA)

  NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL MUSIC ASSOCIATION (NYSSMA) WINTER CONFERENCE
  Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center, Rochester, New York
  8:00p  |  Lilac Ballroom
  
  Halcyon Hearts (2021) by Katahj Copley
  Remembering (2023) by Baljinder Singh Sekhon, II
  The Grace in Being (2013) by Julie Giroux
  Haunted Objects (2024) by John Mackey
  

• Wednesday, May 7, 2025

  SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLUE
  
  Something old...
  "La Morisque" from The Danserye (1551) by  Tielmann Susato
  Festive Overture, Op. 96 (1954) by Dmitri Shostakovich
  
  Something new...
  Zoom (2021) by Scott Boerma
  La Chancla (2024) by Dennis Llinás (New York Premiere)
  
  Something borrowed...
  Prelude and Fugato from Mama Dee's Notebook (2024) by Joel Puckett (New York  Premiere)
  Shenandoah (2019) by Omar Thomas
  
  Something blue...
  Blue Topaz (1968) by Tommy Pederson (ft. Dr. Taylor Peterson, bass trombone)
  Blue Shades (1997) by Frank Ticheli
  

Previous Season Repertoire

• Wednesday, November 15, 2023
  The Classic Wind Ensemble: Works from the 20th Century
  
  American Overture (1955) by Joseph Willcox Jenkins
  Divertimento for Band (1950) by Vincent Persichetti
  Valdresmarsjen (1904) by Johannes Hanssen
  Folk Song Suite (1924) by Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Canzona (1951) by Peter Mennin
  Children's March ("Over the Hills and Far Away") (1919) by Percy Aldridge Grainger    
• Wednesday, May 1, 2024
  The MODERN Wind Ensemble: Works from the 21st Century
  
  Ecstatic Fanfare (2012) by Steven Bryant
  Shimmering Sunshine (2019) by Kevin Day
  Of Our New Day Begun (2015) by Omar Thomas
  Deciduous (2023) by Viet Cuong
  Lichtweg/Lightway (2017) by Jennifer Jolley
  Benediction (2010) by John Stevens
  Give Us This Day (Short Symphony for Band) (2005) by David Maslanka 
• Wednesday, November 16, 2022
  POSITIVELY PLANET STRICKEN
  
  Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986) by John Adams
  Mars and Jupiter from The Planets (1916) by Gustav Holst
  Saturn Returns (2014) by Michael Markowski
  Nitro (2007) by Frank Ticheli
  This Cruel Moon (2017) by John Mackey
  Lightning Field (2015) by John Mackey
  Transit of Venus (1883) by John Philip Sousa
• Wednesday, May 3, 2023
  DANCES AND DREAMS
  
  Until the Scars (2019) by John Mackey
  Incantation and Dance (1960) by John Barnes Chance
  Second Suite in F Major (1911) by Gustav Holst
  Mangulina (2001) by Paul Basler
  Faeroe Island Dance (1946) by Percy Aldridge Grainger
  Exhilaration and Cry (2008) by Donald Grantham
  Summer Days on the Lakes of Madison (2012) by Justin R. Stolarik
  Polka and Fugue from "Schwanda the Bagpiper" (1928/1961) by Jaromir Weinberger
• Thursday, April 14, 2022
  city trees
  
  Gavorkna Fanfare (1991) by Jack Stamp
  Wild Nights! (2007) by Frank Ticheli
  Bloom (2004) by Steven Bryant
  Selections from West Side Story (1957) by Leonard Bernstein
  A Mother of a Revolution! (2019) by Omar Thomas
  First Suite in E-flat Major (1909) by Gustav Holst
  City Trees (2012) by Michael Markowski
  Tempered Steel (1997) by Charles Rochester Young