Wind Ensemble
February 14, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
35th Annual Carolina Band Festival and Conductors Conference
Program
Jonathan Caldwell, conductor
Luke Ellard, clarinet
Michael Haithcock, guest conductor
Arris Golden, guest conductor
Brian Doyle, guest conductor
HARRISON Splinter
MITCHELL From The Depths We Rise
GARROP Chariot of Helios
SIMON Go Down Moses
MARKOWSKI Unfamiliar Territory
TICHELI Over the Moon
The UNCG Wind Ensemble is a highly select concert band of fifty performers majoring in music at the UNCG School of Music. Performers in the current Wind Ensemble are drawn from sixteen states, Slovenia, and Hong Kong. The ensemble has enjoyed a distinguished record of performance throughout its history. In January 1992, the UNCG Wind Ensemble performed “A Tribute to John Philip Sousa” to a capacity crowd of 2,700 at the Concert Hall of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Twice, the Wind Ensemble earned critical acclaim from The Washington Post following concerts in the nation’s capital. The Wind Ensemble has performed throughout the eastern United States in recent years including the first-ever performance, in 1987, by a North Carolina collegiate ensemble in Lincoln Center, New York City. The Wind Ensemble performed that same year in West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. The Wind Ensemble has recorded nineteen commercially-available albums which have received widespread praise.