Concert Band

Wind Ensemble

Conducted by Dr. Justin R. Stolarik

Music and non-music major undergraduates and graduates who wish to participate in concert band should join the Wind Ensemble, a non-auditioned concert ensemble for winds and percussion. All performances are at 7:30p on the Main Stage of the Staller Center for the Performing Arts. Wind Ensemble rehearses one night per week, in Fall and Spring semesters, on Wednesday evenings from 6:30p-9:20p. Click on Wind Ensemble for more information.

The Stony Brook Wind Ensemble performs contemporary and traditional wind repertoire of the highest quality, and comprises wind and percussion student musicians from across campus. Members represent undergraduate and graduate music and non-music majors.

2024-2025 Concert Season Repertoire

• Wednesday, November 20, 2024

  The GRACE IN BEING
  
  Haunted Objects (2024) by John Mackey
  Rest (2011) by Frank Ticheli
  Music for the Struggling Soul (2020) by Luis David González Carmona
  Sleep (2022) by Eric Whitacre
  The Grace in Being (2013) by Julie Giroux
  Remembering (2023) by Baljinder Singh Sekhon, II
  Halcyon Hearts (2021) by Katahj Copley

• Thursday, December 5, 2024

  NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL MUSIC ASSOCIATION (NYSSMA) WINTER CONFERENCE
  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
  

• Wednesday, May 7, 2025
  SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLUE
  
  Full repertoire to be announced.
  Two new consortium-commissions from Joel Puckett and Dennis Llinás!

2023-2024 Concert Season Repertoire

• Wednesday, November 15, 2023
  The Classic Wind Ensemble: Works from the 20th Century
  
  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    
• Wednesday, May 1, 2024
  The MODERN Wind Ensemble: Works from the 21st Century
  
  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 Concert Season Repertoire

• Wednesday, November 16, 2022
  POSITIVELY PLANET STRICKEN
  
  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    
• Wednesday, May 3, 2023
  DANCES AND DREAMS
  
  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

2022 Concert Season Repertoire

• Thursday, April 14, 2022
  city trees
  
  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