Wind Symphony Invitational Performances

Wind Symphony to perform at two conferences

The UW-Eau Claire Wind Symphony has been invited to perform at the College Band Directors National Association North Central Division Professional Conference and at the Music Educators National Conference Biennial National Conference this spring.

The CBDNA Professional Conference, hosted by the University of Nebraska at Omaha, will feature performances by some of the finest ensembles throughout the Midwest. The Wind Symphony earned this honor by submitting a CD of live concert performances from the 2006-2007 academic year, and that recording was reviewed and evaluated by a juried panel through a blind audition process. Approximately thirty university bands from across the Midwest applied to perform at the conference, and only seven were selected. The UW-Eau Claire Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Richard Mark Heidel, Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Music, will perform Friday, March 14, 2008 at 4:30 pm in the Recital Hall on the campus of the University of Nebraska-Omaha.

The concert program will include Toccata Marziale by Ralph Vaughan Williams; Turning by John Mackey; Zirk by Scott Boerma; Passacaglia and Fugue Rondo by David Kneupper; and Gloriosa by Yasuhide Ito. Joining the Wind Symphony during their performance of Zirk will be Dr. Verle A. Ormsby, Jr., guest soloist on Horn, and UW-Eau Claire music faculty. John Mackey and Scott Boerma, composers of two works the Wind Symphony will be performing at the conference, will be in attendance at the concert. The CBDNA performance will be the capstone of the Wind Symphony’s spring concert tour, which includes performances at high schools in River Falls, WI, Minneapolis, MN, and Eagan, MN.

The Wind Symphony’s performance at the MENC National Conference will be held Friday, April 11 at 4:30 pm in the Midwest Airlines Center in Milwaukee, WI. The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Wind Symphony and Indiana University Wind Ensemble from Bloomington, Indiana are the only two university bands that were selected to perform at the conference. The Wind Symphony will be performing Early Light by Carolyn Bremer; Colonial Song by Percy Aldridge Grainger; and The Year of the Dragon by Philip Sparke.

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