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Dr. John Stewart conducts the Encore Wind Ensemble in a MusicConnect Concert at Hudson High School. February 23 at 2:00pm
Dr. Erika Svanoe conducts her own Symphony in Blue and Gold with the Encore Wind Ensemble. Join us on March 30th at 3:00pm at Trinity Lutheran Church in beautiful Stillwater Minnesota.
Join Encore Wind Ensemble with guest conductor Betsy McCann on Sunday, May 19 at Eagan High School at 2:00pm for a MusicConnect concert with Eagan High School Band.
Join Encore Wind Ensemble with special musical guest Charles Lazarus, guest conductor Jack Stamp, along with the After Hours Big Band, for an afternoon of music on Sunday, April 14 at King of Kings at 3:00pm. Suggested Donation: $10 for Adults, $5 for Children and Students.
Join Encore Wind Ensemble with guest conductor Jerry Luckhardt on Sunday, February 25 at 3:00pm at St. Patrick’s Church in Hudson, Wisconsin.
Join Encore Wind Ensemble, guest conducted by Timothy Mahr, for a MusicConnect concert at Woodbury High School on Thursday, November 16 at 7:00pm
Join Encore Wind Ensemble with guest conductor Timothy Mahr on Sunday, November 12 at 3:00pm at king of Kings Lutheran in Woodbury, MN.
Encore Wind Ensemble with guest conductor Dr. Peter J. Haberman will be performing at King of Kings Lutheran Church on October 1st at 3:00pm.
Join the Encore Wind Ensemble for a concert in the park at Roseville Central Park on Thursday, July 27, 7:00pm. Dr. Melanie Brooks, Director of Bands at Winona State University, will be the guest conductor.
Evening Concert - 7pm: Encore Winds – Hyatt: Great Lakes Ballroom. The Encore Wind Ensemble will perform, featuring many guest soloists including Dani De Baza on Spanish Cornet, Thomas Hooten, Jean Laurenz, Clément Saunier, Les Trompettes de Lyon, Trombe Mundi, and many more.
Encore Wind Ensemble presents “Journeys” with guest conductor Dr. Peter Haberman at King of Kings in Woodbury, MN at 3:00pm
Encore Wind Ensemble
Jerry Luckhardt, Conductor
Nick Smith, Guest Conductor
Selections to be performed include:
Americans We - Henry Fillmore
The Glory of the Yankee Navy - John Philip Sousa
Nick Smith, Guest Conductor
Serenade for a Picket Fence - Norman Leyden
Phil Hatchner, Xylophone
Down a Country Lane - Aaron Copland
Selections from Music Man - Meredith Wilson
Trumpeter’s Lullaby - Leroy Anderson
Tony Teehan, Trumpet
New York 1927 - Warren Barker
Gabriel’s Oboe - Ennio Morricone
Kristen Cooper, Oboe
Midway March - John Williams
Nick Smith, Guest Conductor
Come Sunday - Duke Ellington
Dennis Lindsay, Alto Saxophone
Foshay Tower March - John Philip Sousa
Shanendoah - Frank Ticheli
Stars and Stripes Forever - John Philip Sousa
Centennial Lakes Edina
Weather permitting, cancellation will be published to https://encorewind.com
Encore Wind Ensemble
Jerry Luckhardt, Conductor
Nick Smith, Guest Conductor
Selections to be performed include:
Americans We - Henry Fillmore
The Glory of the Yankee Navy - John Philip Sousa
Nick Smith, Guest Conductor
Serenade for a Picket Fence - Norman Leyden
Phil Hatchner, Xylophone
Down a Country Lane - Aaron Copland
Selections from Music Man - Meredith Wilson
Trumpeter’s Lullaby - Leroy Anderson
Tony Teehan, Trumpet
New York 1927 - Warren Barker
Gabriel’s Oboe - Ennio Morricone
Kristen Cooper, Oboe
Midway March - John Williams
Nick Smith, Guest Conductor
Come Sunday - Duke Ellington
Dennis Lindsay, Alto Saxophone
Foshay Tower March - John Philip Sousa
Shanendoah - Frank Ticheli
Stars and Stripes Forever - John Philip Sousa
Roseville Central Park
Weather permitting, cancellation will be published to https://encorewind.com
Encore Wind Ensemble
Catherine Sinon Bushman, Guest Conductor
Pathfinder of Panama - John Philip Sousa
Byzantium - Nicole Chamberlain
Home Away from Home - Cathy Likhuta
Sound and Smoke - Viet Cuong
Pictures at an Exhibition - Mussorgsky/Patterson
Roseville Lutheran Church
Catharine Sinon Bushman is the Wind Ensemble Conductor and Assistant Professor of Music Education at St. Cloud State University. Her teaching responsibilities include Wind Ensemble, conducting and courses in music education.
Dr. Bushman received a DMA in Wind Conducting at The University of Texas at Austin in 2012. She holds degrees in Music Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University. Previously, Dr. Bushman served on the faculty of Winthrop University where she led the Symphonic Band, taught graduate and undergraduate courses in music education, and supervised student interns.
Dr. Bushman was an Assistant Director of Bands at Lassiter High School in Marietta, Georgia from 1998-2007. Her professional memberships include College Band Directors National Association, Women Band Directors International, Minnesota Music Educators Association and Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity.
She maintains an active schedule as a guest conductor, adjudicator, and clinician for marching and concert bands. She has presented at the state and national level on teaching in disadvantaged communities, mentoring of women band directors, woodwind pedagogy and diversity in programming. In 2016, Dr. Bushman began conducting the St. Cloud Municipal Band, an all-adult concert band that performs locally and abroad.
“Overture” from “Romeo & Juliet” - David Diamond
Accolade - Fisher Tull
Chorale and Toccata - Robert Jager
Pastime - Jack Stamp
Three Ohio Songs - Jack Stamp
Hope Terry Ralph, soprano
A Solemn Place - Wayne Ocquin
Jack Stamp
Normandale Lutheran Church
Jack Stamp is Professor of Music, Chairperson of the Music Department and Director of Band Studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he conducts the Wind Ensemble and teaches courses in graduate conducting. He received his Bachelor of Science in Music Education degree from IUP, a Master's in Percussion Performance from East Carolina University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Conducting from Michigan State University where he studied with Eugene Corporon.
He is active as a guest conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and composer throughout North America and Great Britain. His compositions have been commissioned and performed by leading military and university bands across the United States. (from www.jackstamp.com)
Selections to be performed
An American Fanfare - Rick Kirby
Rest - Frank Ticheli
Symphony #1 - Timothy Mahr
The Liberty Bell - Sousa/Brion
Timothy Mahr
Dr. Timothy Mahr is a professor of music at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, where he is the Conductor of the St. Olaf Band and teaches courses in composition, conducting and music education.
Previous to his 1994 appointment at St. Olaf College, Mahr was Director of Bands at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, for ten years and taught instrumental music at Milaca High School (MN) for three years. Mahr is the principal conductor of the Twin Cities-based Minnesota Symphonic Winds and, while in Duluth, was the founder and conductor of the Twin Ports Wind Ensemble.
He is Past President of the North Central Division of the College Band Directors National Association (1999-2001), and has served on the Board of Directors of the National Band Association (1996-98) and was a founding board member of the Minnesota Band Directors Association. He is presently the North Central Division Representative on the CBDNA Commissioning Committee.
Children's March - Percy Aldridge Grainger
Variations on Solid Rock - Jack Stamp
Gloriosa - Yasuhide Ito
Death by Tango, Edward Fairlie
Symphonic Songs, Robert Russell Bennet
Songs of Abelard, Norman Dello Joio
Jack Stamp is Professor of Music, Chairperson of the Music Department and Director of Band Studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he conducts the Wind Ensemble and teaches courses in graduate conducting. He received his Bachelor of Science in Music Education degree from IUP, a Master's in Percussion Performance from East Carolina University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Conducting from Michigan State University where he studied with Eugene Corporon.
He is active as a guest conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and composer throughout North America and Great Britain. His compositions have been commissioned and performed by leading military and university bands across the United States. (from www.jackstamp.com)
Selections to be performed
Bandancing, Jack Stamp
I. City Shuffle
II. Tango
III. Waltz
IV. Slow Dance
V. Last Dance
Rhosymedre, Ralph Vaughan Williams
Lenny's Dance, Ben Blasko
Symphonic Songs, Robert Russell Bennet
Terpsichore, Fisher Tull
Songs of Abelard, Norman Dello Joio
Jack Stamp is Professor of Music, Chairperson of the Music Department and Director of Band Studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he conducts the Wind Ensemble and teaches courses in graduate conducting. He received his Bachelor of Science in Music Education degree from IUP, a Master's in Percussion Performance from East Carolina University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Conducting from Michigan State University where he studied with Eugene Corporon.
He is active as a guest conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and composer throughout North America and Great Britain. His compositions have been commissioned and performed by leading military and university bands across the United States. (from www.jackstamp.com)
"Jubilee" from Symphonic Sketches - George Whitefield Chadwick
When Jesus Wept - William Schuman
Sketches on a Tudor Psalm - Fischer Tull
Cotilion Suite - Arthur Benjamin / Silvester
Canzon a 12 - Giovanni Gabrieli
Petite Symphonae - Charles Gounod
Gone - Scott McAllister
Pavane, Op. 50 - Gabriel Faure / Hansen
Danse Bacchanale (Samson et Delilah, Op. 47) - Camille Saint-Saens
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine - John Philip Sousa
"Jubilee" from Symphonic Sketches - George Whitefield Chadwick
When Jesus Wept - William Schuman
Sketches on a Tudor Psalm - Fischer Tull
Cotilion Suite - Arthur Benjamin / Silvester
"Argyle" Canzon a 12 - Giovanni Gabrieli
Petite Symphonae - Charles Gounod
Gone - Scott McAllister
Pavane, Op. 50 - Gabriel Faure / Hansen
Danse Bacchanale (Samson et Delilah, Op. 47) - Camille Saint-Saens
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine - John Philip Sousa
Selections from the following:
Orient et Occident - Camille Saint‐Saens
Against - Charlie Bond (Winner of 2014-2015 Charles B. Olson Young Composers Competition)
Evening Music - Jayce Ogren
Hammersmith: Prelude and Scherzo - Gustav Holst
O Magnum Mysterium - Morten Lauridsen
The Florentiner - Julius Fucik
Orient et Occident - Camille Saint‐Saens
Against - Charlie Bond (Winner of 2014-2015 Charles B. Olson Young Composers Competition)
Evening Music - Jayce Ogren
Hammersmith: Prelude and Scherzo - Gustav Holst
O Magnum Mysterium - Morten Lauridsen
The Florentiner - Julius Fucik
Overture to Colas Breugnon - Dmitri Kabalevsky
Tower Music - Alan Hovhaness
Variations on a Shaker Melody - Aaron Copland
Serenade in c minor- W. A. Mozart
Allerseelen- Richard Strauss
Symphony for Band - Vincent Persichetti
Overture in C, Op. 24 - Felix Mendelssohn
My Jesus! Oh, What Anguish - J. S. Bach arr. Alfred Reed
Toccata Marziale - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Landscapes - Justin Weiss, Winner of the Charles B. Olson Young Composers Contest
Oblivion - Astor Piazzolla
Trumpet Concerto - Harry James arr. Dean Sorenson
Charles Lazarus, trumpet
"Machine" from Symphony No. 5 - William Bolcom
Symphony No. 7 - Howard Hanson
University of Minnesota Choir
Kathy Romey, Matthew Mehaffey, conductors
Canzon Primi Toni from the Sacred Symphoniae - Giovanni Gabrieli
Chorale and Alleluia - Howard Hanson
Lincolnshire Posey - Percy Grainger
Serenade for 13 winds, Op. 7 - Richard Strauss
Sunrise at Angel's Gate - Philip Sparke
"Marsch" from Symphonic Metamorphosis - Paul Hindemith
Chester (Overture for Band) - William Schuman
Hold This Boy and Listen - Carter Pann
"Cakewalk" for Wind Band - Grant Luhmann*
Give Us This Day: A Short Symphony - David Maslanka
Star Spangled Banner - Francis Scott Key
“Apollo Unleashed” from Symphony No. 2 - Frank Ticheli
Amazing Grace - arr. William Himes
American Salute - Morton Gould
Symphony No. 7 "Sea Symphony"- Howard Hanson
The Promise of Living - Aaron Copland
Toccata Marziale - Ralph Vaughn Williams
The Courtly Dances from Gloriana, Op. 53 - Benjamin Britten
Strange Humors - John Mackey
As the scent of spring rain... - Jonathan Newman
Four Scottish Dances - Malcolm Arnold
BSO Forever March - Leonard Bernstein
Celebrations - John Zdechlik
After A Gentle Rain - Anthony Iannaccone
An Original Suite - Gordon Jacob
Carnival of Venice - Jean Baptiste Arban
Mother Earth Fanfare - David Maslanka
Chester Overture for Band - William Schuman
Easter Monday on the White House Lawn - John Philip Sousa
Whiz Bang - Shelley Hanson
Colas Breugnon Overture, Op. 24 - Kabalevsky
Revolvz - Elbert Liu
Io Son L'umile Ancella - Francesco Celia, trans. Luckhardt
Abanian Dance - Shelley Hanson
Capriccio from Scarlatti, Op. 17 - Shostakovich
Short Symphony - Libby Larsen
Southern Harmony - Donald Grantham
Volver a la Montaña - Shelley Hanson
Diversion - Bernard Heiden
Stardust - Hoagie Carmichael
Ye Banks & Braes o' Bonnie Doon - Percy Grainger
Slavonic Dance Op. 72, No. 7 - Antonin Dvorak
Jerry Luckhardt, guest conductor
Paul Kile, euphonium
Benson Great Hall, Bethel University
Fanfare from "La Peri" - Paul Dukas
Early Light - Carolyn Bremer
Amazing Grace - William Himes, ed. Luis Maldonado
Chester - William Schuman
Suite Francaise - Darius Milhaud
Variations on "America" - Charles Ives, trans. William E. Rhoads
Morceau Symphonique - Allexandre Guilmant, arr. Wesley Shepard
Petite Symphonie - Charles Gounod
The Gallant Seventh - Sousa, ed. Fennell
Americans We - Henry Fillmore
Encore is a collection instrumentalists from around the Twin Cities' dedicated to the performance of traditional and contemporary masterworks for band.
