The University of Virginia Wind Ensemble’s spring concert is Monday, April 21st at 7:30 PM in the Hunter Smith Band Building. The event is free to attend and open to the public.

The concert features a broad range of works by living composers. Brandon West (guest conductor) opens the concert with Katahj Copley’s AYO, followed by Gala Flagello’s Love and Nature (UVA was a consortium member), Morten Lauridsen’s Contre Qui, Rose, arr. Reynolds, and Viet Cuong’s Deciduous. After a brief intermission, the band continues with Mason Bates’s own arrangement of his funky and electronic Chicago 2012 from his larger work Alternative Energy, and closes the concert with Frank Ticheli’s iconic Blue Shades.

Led by UVA’s Director of Bands, Elliott Tackitt, the 45-member Wind Ensemble features the most outstanding brass, woodwind, and percussion players at the University, and rehearses and performs in the Fall and Spring Semesters. The focus of the UVA Wind Ensemble is for students to explore their artistic potential in a collaborative environment.

All events are subject to change.

For more information, please contact the UVA Department of Music at music@virginia.edu or 434.924.3052.