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.
Course
UNDERGRADUATE ENS 103W
GRADUATE ENS 183W
M-W-F, 12–2p
MRH 2.114
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Concerto for Soprano Sax and Wind Ensemble
by John Mackey
Jerry F. Junkin, conductor
Stephen Page, soprano sax
excerpt
Bates Recital Hall
Austin, TX
Upcoming Performances
Wind Ensemble
Andrew Blair | anti-FANFARE
Jack Frerer | Zoom
Omar Thomas | Of Our New Day Begun
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Wind Ensemble
Valerie Coleman | Fanfare for Uncommon Times
Kevin Day | Concerto for Wind Ensemble
Gabriela Lena Frank | Requiem for a Magical America:
El Día de los Muertos
Wind Ensemble
Shostakovich | Festive Overture
Franz Krommer | Octet Partita in F
Aram Khachaturian | Adagio from Spartacus
Karel Husa | Music for Prague 1968
Wind Ensemble & Wind Symphony
Featuring Billy Hunter, trumpet
Omar Thomas | The Low-Down Brown Get-Down
Alexander Arutiunian | Trumpet Concerto
+ more...
Wind Ensemble
John Williams 90th Birthday
Overture to The Cowboys
Music from Star Wars, E.T., Hook
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Wind Ensemble
Featuring Scott Piper, tenor
Erik Santos | The Seer
Jennifer Higdon | Blue Cathedral
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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
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
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Starry Crown
Music of Sweelinck, Maslanka, Rouse, Husa, Grantham
2013 • Longhorn Music
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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
Previous Seasons
19/20
Nabil Abad
Discord
Michael Barry
The Native Inhabitants of the World of San Pateo
Roger Briggs
Concerto for Saxophone Ensemble & Wind Ensemble
Anna Clyne
Masquerade
Aaron Copland
Quiet City
John Corigliano
Mr. Tambourine Man
Michael Daugherty
Songs from a Silent Land
Jack Frerer
On-Again, Off-Again
Donald Grantham
Symphony No. 2
Percy Grainger
Lincolnshire Posey
Cem Güven
Ileri
Zoltán Kodály
Háry János: Suite
John Mackey
Places we Can No Longer Go
David Maslanka
Symphony No. 10
Jake Runestad
Rivers of Air
Joan Tower
Third Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman
Xi Wang
Winter Blossoms
18/19
Leonard Bernstein
Slava! A Political Overture
On the Town: Three Dance Episodes
Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs
Symphonic Suite from On The Waterfront
William Bolcom
Concerto for Clarinet
Andrew Boss
In Adventu Finalem (Symphony No. 3)
Peter Boyer
Curtain Raiser
Viet Cuong
Re(new)al
Giovanni Gabrieli
Canzon per sonar primi toni No. 1
Peter Meechan
Renaissance of Wonder
Soliloquies from a Quiet Place
W.A. Mozart
Serenade No. 10, Gran Partita K.370a
Óscar Navarro
Concerto for Oboe and Wind Band, Legacy
Omar Thomas
Come Sunday
Michael Udow
Mountain Myths
17/18
Paul Dooley
Masks and Machines
George Gershwin
Strike Up the Band Overture
Rhapsody in Blue
Cuban Overture
Catfish Row
Morton Gould
American Salute
Howard Hanson
Symphony No. 2
Gustav Holst
First Suite for Military Band
John Mackey
Fanfare for Full Fathom Five
The Frozen Cathedral
Antique Violences, Concerto for Trumpet
David Maslanka
Symphony No. 4
Angel of Mercy
Ron Nelson
Resonances I
Judith Shatin
Being in Time
Ottorino Respighi
The Fountains of Rome
Adam Schoenberg
Finding Rothko
Fank Ticheli
Silver Lining: Concerto for Flute and Wind Ensemble
John Williams
Escapades from Catch Me if you Can
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