University Wind Ensemble

                 Under the direction of Dr. Edwin Powell

Next Performance

Friday, February 17, 2012 8:00PM at The Capitol Theater in Yakima

NEXT HOME PERFORMANCE

Tuesday, March 14th, 2012 8:00PM

Call 253-535-7787 for tickets.

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!! 

We have determined the destination of our next international tour!  We are excited to announce that the 2012-13 Wind Ensemble will be touring and concretizing in The Land Down Under, AUSTRALIA!!!!!!!

MORE BREAKING NEWS!!!!!! 

I am pleased and proud to tell you that the Wind Ensemble has been selected to perform at the College Band Director's National Association conference next spring, 2012! 

This is a very prestigious honor! It is highly competitive and for our group to receive this honor is a strong testament to the work and commitment the members have shown to the group. A special thanks to past members who have helped me raise the bar! Well done everyone! Congratulations!!!!!

We will also be performing for the Washington Music Educators Conference in Yakima, Washington on Friday, February 17, 2012 at 8:00PM in the Capitol Theater!  Come listen!

Listen by Clicking In Wartime Hymn and Battlemarch by David Del Tredici, Boosey & Hawkes, KRUMP by Scott McAllister **WORLD PREMIER PERFORMANCE**, LYD Music, Symphony in B-Flat Moderately Fast, with Vigor, Andantino Grazioso, Fugue by Paul Hindemith, Schott, or Finish Line by Cindy McTee, RMP Publishing.

The Pacific Lutheran University Wind Ensemble is comprised of the some of the best performers of wind and percussion instruments at the University and is recognized as one of the finest groups of its kind in the entire Northwest. Following the philosophy of a player pool, adopting flexible instrumentation according to the composer's intention, the full ensemble of approximately 50 players is a soloistic and technically proficient ensemble performing chamber music, selected transcriptions, concerti and original full ensemble repertoire spanning five centuries.

The ensemble performs four concerts on campus per season as well as appearing regularly at local schools, national conferences, festivals and special events.

Under the direction of Dr. Edwin Powell recent highlights have been the ensemble's touring Southern California, and a critically acclaimed performance at the Music Educators National Conference Northwest Division meeting in Portland, Oregon. During the summer of 2009 the ensemble toured China where it premiered The Monkey King by PLU's own Greg Youtz.  In October of 2007, the Wind Ensemble performed the World Premier of a Krump (listen above) by the renowned composer Scott McAllister.  This fall the ensemble hosted internationally known composer Ola Gjeilo to give the world premier of Meridian and The Spheres.