A group of Wind Ensemble Students pose with instruments for the camera.

Wind Ensemble

Course

UNDERGRADUATE ENS 103W 
GRADUATE ENS 183W

M-W-F, 12–2p  
MRH 2.114

 


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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.

Join

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 and Schedule

All auditions will take place in the Orchestra Room 2.118.

Click on your instrument below for repertoire requirements. Students should prepare one movement of a concerto or a solo work of equal difficulty in addition to all of the excerpts for your instrument.

Students should show up at least 10 minutes before scheduled audition time with music prepared and instrument tuned.

Cello

Sunday, August 24

Double Bass

Sunday, August 24

Violin

Saturday, August 23

Viola

Saturday, August 23

Sign-Up

Register for an audition and sign up for an audition slot by August 15. Please note that we reserve the right to adjust the schedule as needed so students should monitor their email in case a change is made. 

Any questions about the audition process should be directed to the Graduate TAs at utorchestras@utexas.edu and Prof. Khudyev at Farkhad.Khudyev@austin.utexas.edu. Please contact us if there are no audition slots remaining for your instrument.


Meet the Faculty

Director

Teaching Assistant

 


 

Watch

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

Headshot of clarinetist Jonathan Gunn wearing a suit and holding his instrument.

Event Status
Scheduled

Jerry Junkin, conductor 
Jonathan Gunn, clarinet 

Richard Strauss 
Festival Intrada 

W.A. Mozart, arr. Rumbelow
Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622

Michael Martin 
Lontano: Symphony for Wind Ensemble 

Mezzo soprano Page Stephens wears a pink dress in front of a pink and blue background

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Scheduled

Jimmy Santos-Rivera, guest conductor 
Page Stephens, mezzo soprano

Gustav Mahler, arr. Bowlin 
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen 

David Maslanka 
Symphony No. 8 

Side by photos of Caleb Hudson holding his trumpet and Brian Lewis holding his violin

More Music of John Williams

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Scheduled

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

Gao Hong wearing a yellow dress playing her pipa

Event Status
Scheduled

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)

Side by side pictures of Ebonee Thomas leaning against a wall holding her flute, and Seraph Brass standing together with their instruments

Event Status
Scheduled

Emily Warren and T.j. Anderson, guest conductors 
Ebonee Thomas, flute 
Seraph Brass

Lindsay Bronnenkant 
Tarot 

Anthony DiLorenzo 
Chimera

John Corigliano 
Pied Piper Fantasy 

Pianist James Dick leaning on a piano in a tuxedo

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Scheduled

Cody Ray, guest conductor
James Dick, piano

Sergei Rachmaninoff, arr. Patterson
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganinini, Op. 43

Samuel Barber 
Commando March
Symphony No. 1 in One Movement (arr. Patterson) 

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

Album artwork for Migration

Migration

Music of Schoenberg, Corigliano, Jolley, Montague  
2022 • Reference

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Album cover; a dark blue sea scape at sunset

Wine Dark Sea

Music of Mackey, Welcher, Grantham, Ticheli
2016 • Reference 

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album cover: a rock casts a shadow over the landscape beneath a starry sky

shadow of Sirius

With Marianne Gedigian, flute
Music of Bryant, Puckett, Mackey
2015 • Naxos

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album cover: an abstract painting of yellow and blue hues on a black background

Starry Crown

Music of Sweelinck, Maslanka, Rouse, Husa, Grantham  
2013 • Longhorn Music

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Bells for Stokowski abstract album cover

Bells for Stokowski

2004 • Reference

Golden Ear Award, Absolute Sound
Best of Classical 2004, New York Times

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album cover: artistically rendered title

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

Photo mosaic of recent visiting artists

 


 

Previous Performances

Explore concerts & repertoire from the recent seasons

Event Status
Scheduled

Andrew Blair | anti-FANFARE  

Jack Frerer | Zoom  

Omar Thomas | Of Our New Day Begun  

+ more...

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Kevin Day | Concerto for Wind Ensemble

Valerie Coleman | Fanfare for Uncommon Times 

Percy Grainger | selected short pieces

 

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Shostakovich | Festive Overture 

Franz Krommer | Octet Partita in F

Aram Khachaturian | Adagio from Spartacus 

Karel Husa | Music for Prague 1968  

Event Status
Scheduled
Featuring Billy Hunter, trumpet

Omar Thomas | The Low-Down Brown Get-Down  

Alexander Arutiunian | Trumpet Concerto  

+ more...

John Williams 90th Birthday

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Scheduled
John Williams 90th Birthday

Overture to The Cowboys 

Music from Star Wars, E.T., Hook

+ more...

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Featuring Scott Piper, tenor

Erik Santos | The Seer  

Jennifer Higdon | Blue Cathedral 

+ more...

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Doreen Ketchens, clarinet
 

Grantham
Come, Memory

Maslanka
Symphony No. 7

+ more...     

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Weston Lewis, guest conductor
Hila Plitmann, soprano

Copley
Dope

Plitmann
In This Circle 

+ more...

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Clifton Croomes, guest conductor
Drew Eary, guest conductor
Cortado Horn Quartet

Turner
Introduction and Main Event

Primiani
Glass Ceiling

+ more...

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Scheduled
Ogechi Ukazu, guest conductor
Epoch Percussion Quartet

Holst
Jupiter from The Planets

Psathas
Orbital

Giroux
The Blue Marble

Event Status
Scheduled
Ivan Trevino & Thomas Burritt, percussion
Michael Lebrias, guest conductor

 

Grantham
Southern Harmony 

Márquez 
Danzón No. 2

+ more...

 

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Tyler Ehrlich, guest conductor
Bion Tsang, cello

Boulanger
D'un matin de printemps 

Respighi
Feste Romane  

+ more...

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Sold out

Jerry Junkin, conductor
Andrew Parker, oboe
Kristin Wolfe Jensen, bassoon
Jacob Nissly, percussion
 

Adam Schoenberg
Losing Earth 

Jenni Brandon
Double Concerto for Oboe and Bassoon with Wind Symphony 

+ more...

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Jerry Junkin, conductor
Doug Henderson, Drew Eary, & Michael Lebrias, guest conductors
Caleb Hudson, trumpet 

María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir
Oceans 

Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 1, Jeremiah 

+ more...

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Scheduled

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...

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Jerry Junkin, conductor
Marc Sosnowchik, guest conductor
Jonathan Gunn, clarinet

John Mackey
Divine Mischief (Concerto for Clarinet)
Wine-Dark Sea 

Henry Tomasi
Fanfares Liturguiques