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
Jerry Junkin, conductor
Drew Eary & Michael Lebrias, guest conductors
Caleb Hudson, trumpet
María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir
Oceans
Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 1, Jeremiah
+ more...
Jerry Junkin, conductor
Tyler Ehrlich and Weston Lewis, guest conductors
Eighth Blackbird
Joseph Schwantner
…and the mountains rising nowhere
Viet Cuong
Vital Sines (consortium premiere)
+ more...
Jerry Junkin, conductor
Jonathan Gunn, clarinet
Dmitri Shostakovich
Festive Overture
John Mackey
Divine Mischief (Concerto for Clarinet)
Wine-Dark Sea (10th anniversary performance)
Jerry Junkin, conductor
Marc Sosnowchik, guest conductor
Viet Cuong
Saxophone Quartet Concerto (consortium premiere)
Zhou Tian
Sinfonia
+ more...
Jerry Junkin, conductor
T.J. Anderson, guest conductor
Joseph Alessi, trombone
Chick Corea
Concerto for Trombone
David Maslanka
Symphony No. 4
+ more...
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
coming soon...
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
22/23
Clarice Assad
Sin Fronteras
Steven Bryant
Ecstatic Waters
Julius Fucik
The Florentiner
Julie Giroux
Symphony No. 6, The Blue Marble
Donald Grantham
Southern Harmony
Come, Memory
Gustav Holst
Jupiter from The Planets
Jennifer Jolley
The Eyes of the World Are Upon You
Arturo Márquez
Danzón No. 2
Quinn Mason
Sky Searching Within Itself
A Joyous Trilogy
David Maslanka
Symphony No. 7
José Pablo Moncayo
Huapango
Leanna Primiani
Glass Ceiling
John Psathas
Orbital
John Philip Sousa
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
Omar Thomas
Caribana
Ivan Trevino
Run to the Light
21/22
Andrew Blair
perdid
Valerie Coleman
Fanfare for Uncommon Times
Viet Cuong
Moxie
Kevin Day
Concerto for Wind Ensemble
Roger Dickerson
Essay for Band
Jack Frerer
Zoom
Jennifer Higdon
Blue Cathedral
Aram Khachaturian
Spartacus: Adagio for Spartacus and Phrygia
Henry Purcell
Funeral Music for Queen Mary
Ottorino Respighi
The Pines of Rome
Dimitri Shostakovich
Festive Overture, Op. 96
Richard Strauss
Wiener Philharmoniker Fanfare
Omar Thomas
Of Our New Day Begun
The Low-Down Brown Get-Down
John Williams
Superman March
Adventures of Earth from E.T.
The Cowboys Overture
The Flight To Neverland from Hook
Excerpts from Star Wars
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
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