The University of Texas Wind Ensemble is one of America’s elite wind bands. Commissioning new music since 1988, the group has offered world premiere performances of works by composers such as John Corigliano, Michael Daugherty, Donald Grantham, David Maslanka, and Omar Thomas.
The Wind Ensemble made its international debut in 1991 at the Fifth Conference of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles in Manchester, England, and its national debut in 1998 at Carnegie Hall in New York.
In addition to serving as noted educators and conductors, graduates of The University of Texas Wind Ensemble hold major positions in each of the Washington D.C.-based military bands as well as major symphony orchestras throughout the world.
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Wind Ensemble is made up primarily of elite performers from the Butler School but is open to students university-wide by audition. Students must audition each semester. Auditions for Fall take place at the beginning of that Fall semester. Auditions for Spring take place at the end of the preceding Fall semester.
Audition Information
Requirements
All music majors auditioning for ensembles are required to take the rotation audition. Non-majors also have the option of taking the rotation audition, however they are not required to. Non-majors wishing to audition only for Symphony Band can find more information in the Symphony Band section.
All auditions will take place in Band Hall 2.114.
Schedule
Click on your instrument below to view the required audition excerpt.
Monday, December 1
Percussion | 12-3pm
Oboe | 3:30-5:30pm
Clarinet | 5:45-7:45pm
Wednesday, December 3
Trumpet | 12-2:30pm
Tuba / Euphonium | 2:45-4:45pm
Flute | 5-7pm
Friday, December 5
Bass Trombone / Tenor Trombone | 12-2pm
Bassoon | 2:15-4:15pm
Horn | 4:30-6:30pm
Monday, December 8
Harp | 12-1pm
Saxophone | 1:15-3:15pm
Sign-Up
Register for an audition by Friday, November 21. Please do not register twice; if you are unsure if you've already signed up, contact Assistant Instructor Emily Warren.
Please fill out all fields and ensure your information is correct. You will not be able to edit your responses after submitted. Information on this form can only be viewed by University Bands faculty and Teaching Assistants, and will not be shared with any other parties.
Upcoming Performances
Recordings
“The skilled and enthusiastic playing of the young performers leaps off the disc…they make a glorious noise.”
– The New York Times
on Bells for Stokowski
Migration
Music of Schoenberg, Corigliano, Jolley, Montague
2022 • Reference
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Wine Dark Sea
Music of Mackey, Welcher, Grantham, Ticheli
2016 • Reference
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shadow of Sirius
With Marianne Gedigian, flute
Music of Bryant, Puckett, Mackey
2015 • Naxos
Starry Crown
Music of Sweelinck, Maslanka, Rouse, Husa, Grantham
2013 • Longhorn Music
Preview Now
Bells for Stokowski
2004 • Reference
Golden Ear Award, Absolute Sound
Best of Classical 2004, New York Times
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Circus Maximus
Music of John Corigliano
2007 • Naxos
Golden Tuning Fork Award, Diapason d'or, France
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Appearances
National
College Band Directors National Association Conference
1995 • 1999 • 2005 • 2009
American Bandmasters Association
1996 • 2000 • 2009
Regional
College Band Directors National Association
1989
Texas Music Educators Association
1990 • 1994 • 1998 • 2002 • 2006 • 2010 • 2014
International
SUMMER 2008 7-day European Tour
England
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Austria
Spain
SUMMER 2014 four-week World Tour
Honolulu
Okazaki City
Tokyo
Taipei
Hong Kong
Macau
Shenzhen
Beijing
London
Visiting Artists & Residencies
John Adams
Samuel Adler
William Bolcom
Michael Colgrass
John Corigliano
David Del Tredici
Jacob Druckman
Daniel Godfrey
John Harbison
Karel Husa
William Kraft
David Maslanka
Thea Musgrave
Hila Plitmann
Gunther Schuller
Joseph Shwartner
Stephen Stucky
Joan Tower
Past Performances
Explore concerts & repertoire from the recent seasons
Jerry Junkin, conductor
Cody Ray, guest conductor
James Dick, piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganinini, op. 43
Samuel Barber
Commando March
Symphony No. 1 in One Movement
Emily Warren and T.j. Anderson, guest conductors
Ebonee Thomas, flute
Seraph Brass
Lindsay Bronnenkant
Tarot
Anthony DiLorenzo
Chimera
John Corigliano
Pied Piper Fantasy
Doug Henderson, guest conductor
Gao Hong, pipa
Gao Hong
Musical Journey for Pipa and Band (world premiere)
John Mackey
Symphony No. 2 (U.S. premiere)
This performance will not be live streamed.
Wind Ensemble
More Music of John Williams
Jerry Junkin, conductor
Alec Rodriguez, guest conductor
Caleb Hudson, trumpet
Brian Lewis, violin
Theme from Jurassic Park
Selections from Harry Potter
Of Grit and Glory
The March from 1941
Theme from Schindler’s List
Selections from Indiana Jones
With Malice Toward None from Lincoln
Selections from Star Wars
Jerry Junkin, conductor
Jimmy Santos-Rivera, guest conductor
Page Stephens, mezzo soprano
Gustav Mahler, arr. Bowlin
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
David Maslanka
Symphony No. 8
Jerry Junkin, conductor
Jonathan Gunn, clarinet
Richard Strauss
Festival Intrada
W.A. Mozart
Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622
Michael Martin
Lontano: Symphony for Wind Ensemble
This concert will be streamed.
Jerry F. Junkin, conductor
Cody Ray, guest conductor
Ole Edvard Antonsen, trumpet
Caleb Hudson, trumpet
Warren Benson
Wings
Caroline Shaw
and the swallow
+ more...
This concert will. be streamed.
Wind Ensemble
Celebrating the centennial of Gunther Schuller’s birth
Jerry F. Junkin, conductor
Emily Warren, guest conductor
This event will be streamed
Hector Berlioz, arr. Schuller
Overture to Le Corsaire
Scott Joplin, ed. Schuller
Combination March
Gunther Schuller
Meditation
Symphony No. 3, In Praise of Winds
Jerry Junkin, conductor
Stephen Page, saxophones
John Corigliano
Triathlon
Symphony No. 3, Circus Maximus (20th anniversary of the world premiere)
Butler Holiday Concert
DEC 8: SOLD OUT
Combined Choirs
Wind Ensemble
Butler Opera Center
Brass and Wind Studios
+ more...
This event will be streamed on Sunday, December 8
Jerry F. Junkin, conductor
Patrick Hughes, horn
Catherine Likhuta, visiting composer
John Adams
Grand Pianola Music
Catherine Likhuta
Sure-fire
Bury and Rise
David Del Tredici
In Wartime
Jerry F. Junkin, conductor
Jimmy Santos-Rivera & Tyler Ehrlich, guest conductors
This event will be streamed
Gao Hong
Celebration
Percy Grainger
Mock Morris
Ángel Peña
Fantasía Caribe
+ more...
Jerry F. Junkin, conductor
T.j. Anderson, guest conductor
Adam Schoenberg
Cool Cat
Gustav Holst
First Suite in E-flat Major for Military Band, Op. 28, No. 1
Jessica Meyer
Go Big or Go Home
+ more...
Jerry Junkin, conductor
T.J. Anderson, guest conductor
Joseph Alessi, trombone
Chick Corea
Concerto for Trombone
David Maslanka
Symphony No. 4
+ more...
Jerry Junkin, conductor
Viet Cuong
Saxophone Quartet Concerto (consortium premiere)
Zhou Tian
Sinfonia
+ more...
Jerry Junkin, conductor
Marc Sosnowchik, guest conductor
Jonathan Gunn, clarinet
John Mackey
Divine Mischief (Concerto for Clarinet)
Wine-Dark Sea
Henry Tomasi
Fanfares Liturguiques