Concert Band Concerts

 

The next Stony Brook Wind Ensemble Concert
will take place on
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at 7:30p.

All regular-season concerts are held on the Main Stage
of the Staller Center for the Performing Arts
on the campus of Stony Brook University.

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Current 2024-2025 Concert Season Repertoire

• 2024-2025 Season

  The GRACE IN BEING
  Wednesday, November 20, 2024
  
  Discomfort... Haunted Objects (Tsukumogami) (2024) by John Mackey
  Rest... Rest (2011) by Frank Ticheli
  Struggle... Music for the Struggling Soul (2020) by Luis David González Carmona (World Premiere)
  Sleep... Sleep (2000) by Eric Whitacre
  Grace... The Grace in Being (2013) by Julie Giroux
  Reflect... Remembering (2023) by Baljinder Singh Sekhon, II
  Love... Halcyon Hearts (2021) by Katahj Copley

   

  NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL MUSIC ASSOCIATION (NYSSMA) WINTER CONFERENCE
  Thursday, December 5, 2024
  Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center, Rochester, New York
  8:00p  |  Lilac Ballroom
  
  Halcyon Hearts (2021) by Katahj Copley
  Remembering (2023) by Baljinder Singh Sekhon, II
  The Grace in Being (2013) by Julie Giroux
  Haunted Objects (2024) by John Mackey

   

  SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLUE
  Wednesday, May 7, 2025
  
  Something old...
  "La Morisque" from The Danserye (1551) by  Tielman Susato
  Festive Overture, Op. 96 (1954) by Dmitri Shostakovich
  
  Something new...
  Zoom (2021) by Scott Boerma
  La Chancla (2024) by Dennis Llinás (New York Consortium Premiere)
  
  Something borrowed...
  Prelude and Fugato from Mama Dee's Notebook (2024) by Joel Puckett (New York Consortium Premiere)
  Shenandoah (2019) by Omar Thomas
  
  Something blue...
  Blue Topaz (1968) by Tommy Pederson (ft. Dr. Taylor Peterson, bass trombone)
  Blue Shades (1997) by Frank Ticheli

Upcoming 2025-2026 Concert Season Repertoire - Just announced!

• 2025-2026 Season

  BAND-O-RAMA
  Stony Brook Wind Ensemble and the Spirit of Stony Brook
  Date TBA
  Repertoire is subject to change.
  
  AYO (2022) by Kevin Day
  Noisy Wheels of Joy (1999) by Eric Whitacre
  Cave (1976) by Russell Peck
  Xerxes (2010) by John Mackey
  John and Jim (2024) by Viet Cuong
  "Pines of the Appian Way" from The Pines of Rome (1924) by Ottorino Respighi
  Spirit of Stony Brook repertoire to be announced.

   

  DEEP BLUE
  Date TBA
  Repertoire is subject to change.
  
  Hammersmith, Op. 52 (1930) by Gustav Holst
  Sea Songs (1923) by Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Undertow (2008) by John Mackey
  Deep Blue (2022) by Kevin Day
  Inland Ocean (2023) by Viet Cuong
  Niagara Falls (1997) by Michael Daugherty

Previous Season Repertoire

• 2022-2023 Season

  The Classic Wind Ensemble: Works from the 20th Century
  Wednesday, November 15, 2023
  
  American Overture (1955) by Joseph Willcox Jenkins
  Divertimento for Band (1950) by Vincent Persichetti
  Valdresmarsjen (1904) by Johannes Hanssen
  Folk Song Suite (1924) by Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Canzona (1951) by Peter Mennin
  Children's March ("Over the Hills and Far Away") (1919) by Percy Aldridge Grainger

   

  The MODERN Wind Ensemble: Works from the 21st Century
  Wednesday, May 1, 2024
  
  Ecstatic Fanfare (2012) by Steven Bryant
  Shimmering Sunshine (2019) by Kevin Day
  Of Our New Day Begun (2015) by Omar Thomas
  Deciduous (2023) by Viet Cuong
  Lichtweg/Lightway (2017) by Jennifer Jolley
  Benediction (2010) by John Stevens
  Give Us This Day (Short Symphony for Band) (2005) by David Maslanka 

• 2022-2023 Season

  POSITIVELY PLANET STRICKEN
  Wednesday, November 16, 2022
  
  Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986) by John Adams
  Mars and Jupiter from The Planets (1916) by Gustav Holst
  Saturn Returns (2014) by Michael Markowski
  Nitro (2007) by Frank Ticheli
  This Cruel Moon (2017) by John Mackey
  Lightning Field (2015) by John Mackey
  Transit of Venus (1883) by John Philip Sousa

   

  DANCES AND DREAMS
  Wednesday, May 3, 2023
  
  Until the Scars (2019) by John Mackey
  Incantation and Dance (1960) by John Barnes Chance
  Second Suite in F Major (1911) by Gustav Holst
  Mangulina (2001) by Paul Basler
  Faeroe Island Dance (1946) by Percy Aldridge Grainger
  Exhilaration and Cry (2008) by Donald Grantham
  Summer Days on the Lakes of Madison (2012) by Justin R. Stolarik
  Polka and Fugue from "Schwanda the Bagpiper" (1928/1961) by Jaromir Weinberger

• 2021-2022 Season
  city trees
  Thursday, April 14, 2022
  
  Gavorkna Fanfare (1991) by Jack Stamp
  Wild Nights! (2007) by Frank Ticheli
  Bloom (2004) by Steven Bryant
  Selections from West Side Story (1957) by Leonard Bernstein
  A Mother of a Revolution! (2019) by Omar Thomas
  First Suite in E-flat Major (1909) by Gustav Holst
  City Trees (2012) by Michael Markowski
  Tempered Steel (1997) by Charles Rochester Young