Recent Repertoire - University Wind Ensemble
2025-2026 Season
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November 16, 2025 – The Wide-Awake Life
- David Maslanka: Mother Earth
- Gala Flagello: Love & Nature
- Steven Bryant: Dusk
- Michael Markowski: City Trees
- Brian Balmages: Infinite Hope
February 22, 2026 – The Seeker
- Frank Ticheli: Apollo Unleashed from Symphony No. 2
- Aaron Copland: “The Promise of Living” from The Tender Land
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 537
- Jess Langston Turner: In Light, Inaccessible
- David Maslanka: The Seeker: A Symphonic Movement
April 25, 2026 – Concerto Showcase
with the University Symphony Orchestra and the University Chamber Orchestra
- Claude Debussy: Première Rhapsodie for Clarinet
Pablo Ramirez-Garcia, clarinet – Second Place Winner, 2026 Concerto Competition
May 16, 2026 – Radiance
- John Mackey: Aurora Awakes
- Julie Giroux: Radiant Shadows
- Kevin Day: Shimmering Sunshine
- Nubia Jaime-Donjuan: Tundra
- Gustav Holst: First Suite in E-Flat
2024-2025 Season
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November 16, 2024 – From Sea to Shining Sea
- Kimberly Archer: Fanfare Politeia
Vincent Persichetti: Pageant, Op. 59
James M. David: Urban Light
Rick Kirby: Different Voices
Leonard Bernstein: Slava! A Political Overture
Kevin Day: A Hymn for Peace
February 23, 2025 – Dialogues
- Chandler L. Wilson: Conversations
Percy Grainger: Marching Song of Democracy
Peter Van Zandt Lane: Echo Chambers
Václav Nelhýbel: Festivo
Valerie Coleman: Roma
Omar Thomas: A Mother of A Revolution!
May 18, 2025 – In Time of Conflict
- Kimberly Archer: Fanfare Dissensus
Jennifer Jolley: March!
Elliot Cole: Postlude #8
William Schuman: Chester
Frank Ticheli: Angels in the Architecture
Kevin Day: On Shores of Endless Seas
2023-2024 Season
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November 12, 2023
- Johan de Meij: Symphony No. 1, Lord of the Rings
Norman Dello Joio: Scenes from "The Louvre"
Joni Greene: Suspended in a Sunbeam
Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasia in G Major
Arturo Márquez: Conga del Fuego Nuevo
February 18, 2024
- Katahj Copley: In Living Color
David Maslanka: Give Us This Day
Carol Brittin Chambers: So Wondrous Bright
Julie Giroux: Before the Sun
Julius Fučík: Florentiner March
May 12, 2024
- John Barnes Chance: Elegy
Alan Theisen: AMP
Haley Woodrow: In Two Places
Jess Langston Turner: Lullaby from Memorial to Silent Voices, for Wind Band and Alto Solo
Erika Svanoe: Steampunk Suite
2022-2023 Season
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November 13, 2022
- Amanda Aldridge: On Parade: Quick March
- Nicole Piunno: Where Words Cannot Go
- Gustav Holst: Second Suite in F
- Morten Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium
- Arturo Marquez: Danzon No. 2
- Steven Bryant: In This Broad Earth
February 19, 2023
- Katahj Copley: Halcyon Hearts: An Overture for Love
- Vincent Persichetti: Divertimento for Band, Op. 42
- John Mackey: This Cruel Moon
- John Williams: The March from “1941”
- Percy Aldridge Grainger: Colonial Song
- Viet Cuong: Diamond Tide
May 14, 2023
- Felix Mendelssohn: Overture for Winds, Op. 24
- Kevin Day: A Song for Tomorrow
- Maurice Ravel: “Laideronnette: Impératrice des Pagodes” (from Ma Mère l’Oye)
- Shelley Hanson: Islas y Montañas
- Frank Ticheli: Blue Shades
2021-2022 Season
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November 14, 2021
- Ralph Vaughan Williams: English Folk Song Suite
- Jodie Blackshaw: Peace Dancer
- David Maslanka: Requiem
- Anthony Iannaccone: After a Gentle Rain
- Leonard Bernstein: Overture to Candide
March 5, 2022
- Joan Tower: Copperwave
Axiom Brass, Don Michael Randel Ensemble-in-Residence - Ralph Vaughan Williams: Flourish for Glorious John
- Joel Puckett: My Eyes are Full of Shadow
- J. Vicent Egea: Fantasía Flamenca for Symphonic Band and Brass Quintet
Axiom Brass - Omar Thomas: Shenandoah
- Yasuhide Ito: Festal Scenes
May 15, 2022
- Percy Grainger: Molly on the Shore
- Ricardo Lorenz: Caminantes
- Steven Bryant: Pendulum
- Holly Harrison: Splinter
- Aaron Perrine: In the Open Air, In the Silent Lines
- Paul Hindemith: "March" from Symphonic Metamorphosis
2019-2020 Season
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November 17, 2019
- Kathryn Salfelder: Cathedrals
- Julie Giroux: One Life Beautiful
- Viet Cuong: Moth
- Ola Gjeilo: Meridian
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Tumblers
February 23, 2020
- Jess Turner: Through the Looking Glass
- William Schuman: New England Triptych
- John Adams: Lollapalooza
- Jennifer Jolley: Ash
- Alberto Ginastera: Danza Final (Malambo) from Estancia
- John Williams: The Star Wars Saga
with the University of Chicago Lab School Concert Band
2018-2019 Season
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November 18, 2018
- Gustav Holst: Second Suite in F
- Aaron Copland: The Promise of Living
- Jennifer Jolley: Lichtweg / Lightway
- Vaclav Nelhybel: Corsican Litany
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
- David Clay Mettens: Kinetic dance, for two scrap metal birds
February 24, 2019
- John Zdechlik: Celebrations
- Michael Markowski: City Trees
- Charles Ives: Variations on America
- Henry Fillmore: The Klaxon
with the University of Chicago Lab School Concert Band - Douglas Akey: A Tallis Prelude
with the University of Chicago Lab School Concert Band
May 19, 2019
- Scott McAllister: Zing!
- Frank Ticheli: An American Elegy
- Arturo Márquez: Danzón No. 2
- Dietrich Buxtehude: Praeludium
- Malcolm Arnold: Four Scottish Dances
- Karl King: University of Chicago March
2017-2018 Season
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November 12, 2017
- Steven Bryant: Miniature Suite
- Vincent Persichetti: Divertimento for Band, Op. 42
- David Gillingham: Concerto for Woodwind Quintet and Wind Ensemble
Imani Winds, Don Michael Randel Ensemble-in-Residence - Don Freund: Jug Blues & Fat Pickin’
February 18, 2018
- Andrew Jr. Boysen: Kirkpatrick Fanfare
- Eric Whitacre: Lux Aurumque
- Malcolm Arnold: English Dances, Set 1, Op. 27
- Alex Shapiro: Lights Out
- Frank Erickson: Balladair
with the University of Chicago Lab School Concert Band - Michael Markowski: The Cave You Fear
with the University of Chicago Lab School Concert Band
May 13, 2018
- Chen Yi: Spring Festival
- Johannes Brahms: Blessed are They from A German Requiem
- Kimberly K. Archer: For those taken too soon... (Symphony No. 1)
- Shelly Hanson: Islas y Montañas
2016-2017 Season
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November 13, 2016
- Ryan Nowlin: Deadline
- Ralph Vaughan Williams: Rhosymedre
- Václav Nelhybel: Symphonic Movement
- Pierre Leemans: Marche des Parachutistes Belges
- David Maslanka: Requiem
- Gustav Holst: First Suite in E-flat, Op. 28, No. 1
February 19, 2017
- Henry Fillmore: The Footlifter
- Carl Holmquist: Play!
- Percy Grainger: Lincolnshire Posy
- Clifton Williams: Arioso
with the University of Chicago Lab School Concert Band - Adam Gorb: Parade of the Wooden Warriors
with the University of Chicago Lab School Concert Band
May 14, 2017
- Alfred Reed: El Camino Real
- Maurice Ravel: Laideronnette: Impératrice des Pagodes from Ma mere l’Oye
- Eiji Suzuki: Song and Legend
- Z. Randall Stroope: Amor de mi alma
- Derek Bourgeois: Serenade
- John Barnes Chance: Variations on a Korean Folk Song