Junior High Concert Band Contest
High School Concert Band Contest
Jazz Band Contest and Festival
Wind Symphony
Stephen K. Steele, conductor
Sunday, September 11
3:00 pm - ISU Center for the Performing Arts
Wind Symphony
Stephen K. Steele, conductor
Sunday, October 2
3:00 pm - ISU Center for the Performing Arts
Philip Sparke - "Fiesta!"
John Corigliano - "Gazebo Dances"
Donald Grantham - "Bum's Rush"
David Maslanka - "In Memoriam"
Symphonic Winds and Symphonic Band
Stephen K. Steele and Daniel A. Belongia, conductors
Sunday, October 9
3:00 pm - ISU Center for the Performing Arts
Symphonic Winds:
Alfred Reed - "The Hounds of Spring"
Vittoro Giannini - "Symphony No. 3"
Symphonic Band:
Morton Gould - Symphony for Band (1952)
John Mackey - Foundry (2011)
Chamber Winds
Monday, October 10
8:00 pm - Kemp Recital Hall
State of Illinois Invitational High School Marching Band Championship
Saturday, October 29
All Day - Hancock Stadium
Band-o-rama - Family Weekend
Big Red Marching Machine
Home Game and evening concert
Concert in Braden at 7:30 pm - tickets available at Braden Box Office (309) 438-5444
Saturday, November 5
Symphonic Winds, Symphonic Band and University Band
Stephen K. Steele and Daniel A. Belongia, conductors
Sunday, November 13
3:00 pm - ISU Center for the Performing Arts
Symphonic Winds:
Vaughan Williams - "Sea Songs"
Lo Presti - "Elegy for a Young American"
Mackey - "Redline Tango"
Symphonic Band:
William Schumann - George Washington Bridge
Alfred Reed - Symphonic Prelude: Black is the Color of My True Love's Hari
TBA
University Band:
TBA
Chamber Winds
Monday, November 14
8:00 pm - Kemp Recital Hall
Wind Symphony
Stephen K. Steele, conductor
Thursday, November 17
8:00 pm - ISU Center for the Performing Arts
David Maslanka - "Sea Dreams" (double horn concerto with Saul Garland and Nancy O'Neill, horn soloists)
David Maslanka - "Symphony No. 9" (premiere performance)
Symphonic Winds
Stephen K. Steele, conductor
Sunday, February 26
3:00 pm - ISU Center for the Performing Arts
Wind Symphony
Stephen K. Steele, conductor
Sunday, March 4
3:00 pm - ISU Center for the Performing Arts
Kraft - "Timpani Concerto" (David Collier, soloist)
Gorb - "Repercussions"
Knight - "Hit on All Sixes"
Mackey - "Aurora Awakes"
Chamber Winds
Monday, March 5
8:00 pm - Kemp Recital Hall
Symphonic Band
Daniel A. Belongia, conductor
Thursday, March 8
8:00 pm - ISU Center for the Performing Arts
State of Illinois lnvitational Junior High School Concert Band Festival
Saturday, April 21
CPA - all day - FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Symphonic Winds
Stephen K. Steele, conductor
Sunday, April 22
3:00 pm - ISU Center for the Performing Arts
Chamber Winds
Monday, April 23
8:00 pm - Kemp Recital Hall
Symphonic Band & University Band
Daniel A. Belongia, Saul Garland, Jerusha Johnson, and Matt Drase - conductors
Wednesday, April 25
8:00 pm - ISU Center for the Performing Arts
State of Illinois Invitational High School Concert Band Festival
Friday and Saturday, April 27 and 28
CPA - all day - FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Wind Symphony
Stephen K. Steele, conductor
Sunday, April 29
3:00 pm - ISU Center for the Performing Arts