Both the Lawrence University Wind Ensemble and the Symphonic Band offer high-caliber ensemble performance experiences and an exploration of a rich array of repertoire.
Lawrence University Wind Ensemble
Director: Ceon D. Rumphs
Audition required, five performances a year
Selected from the top wind and percussion students, the Wind Ensemble performs concerts throughout the academic year both on and off campus. You’ll have opportunities to perform with guest soloists, conductors, and composers. Play repertoire consisting of the finest wind music, from Bach to major contemporary composers, and works by your talented fellow students. The repertoire is also deepening and expanding, with a commitment to honor the works of composers from underrepresented backgrounds. The Wind Ensemble also performs at venues including major music conventions and issues acclaimed recordings.
2026-2027 Wind Ensemble Repertoire
Concert 1 (“Pax Americana”) | Saturday, October 17 | 7:30 p.m.
Augustus Samuel Ward/arr. Carmen Dragon – America, the Beautiful
Samuel Barber – Commando March
William Himes – Amazing Grace
Adolphus Hailstork – American Guernica
Morton Gould – Ballad for Band
John Williams – Hymn to the Fallen
Concert 2 | Wednesday, November 18 | 8 p.m.
Oscar Navarro – Downey Overture
Wayne Oquin – Affirmation
Evan Williams ’10 – Concerto Grosso featuring Faculty Quintet *World premiere
Wind Ensemble Concerto Competition | Sunday, January 24 | 12 p.m.
Concert 3 | Saturday, February 27 | 7:30 p.m.
Ron Nelson – Lauds (Praise High Day)
Joseph Schwantner/trans. Andrew Boysen, Jr. – Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra featuring Jean Carlo Ureña González, percussion
Luis Serrano Alarcón – Duende
Concert 4 (“Folk Songs”) | Saturday, May 1 | 7:30 p.m.
Joaquín Rodrigo – Adagio para Orquesta de Instrumentos de Viento
Zhou Tian – Nocturne
Haydn Wood – Mannin Veen
H. Owen Reed – La Fiesta Mexicana
Concert 5 (“Southern Harmony”) | Saturday, May 29 | 7:30 p.m.
Florence Price – Dances in the Canebrakes
Jonathan Newman – As the scent of spring rain…
Concerto Competition Winner – TBD
Donald Grantham – Southern Harmony
Lawrence University Symphonic Band
Director: Matthew Arau
Audition required, four performances a year
This high-caliber, auditioned ensemble is comprised of both music and non-music major students with the belief that ensemble performance experience should be available to all capable musicians. You’ll play a wide variety of repertoire such as Aakash Mittal’s Samay Raga for Wind Ensemble, Theresa Martin’s Radiance, and Steven Bryant’s Ecstatic Waters, and honor the ever-increasing repertoire written by composers from underrepresented groups.
