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
Ogechi Ukazu, guest conductor
Epoch Percussion Quartet
Holst
Jupiter from The Planets
Psathas
Orbital
Giroux
The Big Blue Marble
Michael Lebrias, guest conductor
Grantham
Southern Harmony
Márquez
Danzón No. 2
+ more...
Tyler Ehrlich, guest conductor
Bion Tsang, cello
Boulanger
D'un matin de printemps
Respighi
Feste Romane
+ 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
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
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
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