Past Performances

2024-2025

  • 📍Kulp Auditorium, Ithaca High School
    🕢 3:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Juliana Pepinsky — Flute

    🎼 Program

    • A Tone Parallel to Harlem — Duke Ellington, arr. James Spinazzola (Arrangement Premiere)

    • Concerto for Flute, Mvt. 1 — Lowell Liebermann, with Juliana Pepinsky, flute

    • Come Sunday — Omar Thomas

    • Marching Song of Democracy — Percy Grainger

  • 📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 7:30 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Shelley Hanson — Composer

    • Yosvany Terry — Composer & Saxophone

    🎼 Program

    • Symphony No. 2 — Frank Ticheli

    • Tocata & La Tumba de Alejandro García Caturla — Shelley Hanson

    • Tres Danzas Cubanas — Alejandro García Caturla

    • Paisajes Rurales — Yosvany Terry

    • Debo — Yosvany Terry

    • Carnaval — Yosvany Terry

  • 📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 7:30 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Abigail Black — Piccolo

    🎼 Program

    • Herald, Holler, and Hallelujah! — Wynton Marsalis, trans. James Spinazzola

    • In a Nutshell: Suite — Percy Grainger

    • Concerto for Piccolo, Op. 50, Mvt. 1 — Lowell Liebermann, trans. Keiichi Kurokawa, with Abigail Black, piccolo

    • Finale from Symphony No. 5 — Dmitri Shostakovich, trans. Jay Bocook

  • 📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 7:30 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    🎼 Program

    • Las Provincias (pasodoble) — Arturo & Vicente Terol Gandía

    • Duende — Luis Serrano Alarcón

    • Pavane pour une infante défunte — Maurice Ravel, arr. Johan de Meij

    • Introduction & Contradanza from “Cecilia Valdés” — Gonzalo Roig, arr. James Spinazzola

    • Intermedio de La Boda de Luis Alonso — Jerónimo Giménez, trans. Clark McAlister & Lowell Graham

    • inner flame . . . deep and blue — Tyson Gholston Davis, with Ariadne Greif, soprano (World Premiere)

2023-2024

  • 📍Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 12:00 PM ET

    🎼 Program

    • Continuous performances by subsets of the Wind Symphony, from flute choir to saxophone quartet, brass quintet to brass choir, and mixed instrumental ensembles to percussion groups

    • Cuban Overture — George Gershwin

    • Allerseelen — Richard Strauss

  • 📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 3:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Eric Troiano — Soprano Saxophone

    🎼 Program

    • Overture to “Colas Breugnon” — Dmitri Kabalevsky, trans. Donald Hunsberger

    • Adventures in the Air: Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Wind Ensemble — Mark Winges, with Eric Troiano, Soprano Saxophone (Premiere)

    • Danzón cubano — Aaron Copland, trans. Mark Rogers

    • Danzon No. 2 — Arturo Márquez, trans. Oliver Nickel

    • Movement 3, “Freedom Above All,” from Symphony No. 3 — Thomas Doss

  • 📍 Havana & Matanzas, Cuba

    • Repertoire from Fall Concerts & Additional Selections in Collaboration with the National Concert Band of Cuba

  • 📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 7:30 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Chris Coletti — Trumpet

    • Eric Troiano — Soprano Saxophone

    • Laura Cetilia, Mark Winges, & Dana Wilson — Composers

    🎼 Program

    • Cuban Overture — George Gershwin, trans. Mark Rogers

    • Whirlygigs at the Kinetic Playground from Adventures in the Air — Mark Winges, with Eric Troiano, Soprano Saxophone

    • Batá — Tania León, arr. James Spinazzola (Arrangement Premiere)

    • Aristolochia — Laura Cetilia (Transcription Premiere)

    • Concerto for Jazz Trumpet and Wind Ensemble — Dana Wilson, with Chris Coletti, trumpet

    • Introduction and Contradanza from Cecilia Valdés — Gonzalo Roig, arr. James Spinazzola (Arrangement Premiere)

  • 📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 12:30 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    🎼 Program

    • Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments — Igor Stravinsky
      (This ensemble is comprised of members of the Wind Symphony and professional musicians.)

  • 📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 7:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Cornell Chorus & Glee Club — Conducted by Priscilla E. Browning Director of Choral Music Joe Lerangis

    • Sally Lamb McCune — Composer

    🎼 Program

    • High Water Rising — Sally Lamb McCune

    • There — Viet Cuong

    • Here and Now — Christopher Theofanides (Excerpted Movements)

    • The Low-Down Brown Get-Down — Omar Thomas

    • Apothéose from Grande Symphonie funebre et triomphale — Hector Berlioz

2022-2023

  • 📍Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 7:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • YAMATAI — Cornell’s Taiko Drumming Group

    🎼 Program

    • Overture to La forza del destino — Giuseppe Verdi

    • Symphony No. 4: Bookmarks from Japan — Julie Giroux

  • 📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 3:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Bradley Ethington — Guest Conductor

    • Catherine Likhuta — Composer

    • Victoria Miskolczy — Viola

    • Alex Shuhan — Horn

    🎼 Program

    • Festive Overture — Dmitry Shostakovich, trans. Donald Hunsberger

    • The Engulfed Cathedral — Claude Debussy, arr. Merlin Patterson

    • A Place That Is Yours — Catherine Likhuta, with Victoria Miskolczy, Viola (Premiere)

    • Concerto for Low Horn and Wind Ensemble — Catherine Likhuta, with Alex Shuhan, Horn

    • Me Disagrees — Catherine Likhuta

  • 📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 3:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Josh Biggs — Composer

    • Thomas Feng — Piano

    • John Haines-Eitzen — Cello

    🎼 Program

    • Adrenaline City — Adam Gorb

    • Suite in E-flat — Gustav Holst (Student Selection)

    • Amazing Grace — arr. Frank Ticheli

    • Half-Mast Inhibition — Charles Mingus, with John Haines-Eitzen, Cello

    • Spool — Josh Biggs, with Thomas Feng, Piano (Premiere)

    • Tumbao from Sinfonia No. 3, “La Salsa” — Roberto Sierra, trans. Mark Scatterday

  • 📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 7:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • John Berners — Composer

    • Lucy Fitz Gibbon — Soprano

    • Matthew Murchison — Euphonium

    🎼 Program

    • The Moldau — Bedrich Smetana, trans. John Cacavas, ed. Mark Rogers (Student Selection)

    • All of Roses: Five Songs on Texts by D.H. Lawrence — John Berners, with Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Soprano (Premiere)

    • Variations on a Tyrolean Theme — Jean Baptist Arban, with Matthew Murchison, Euphonium

    • Divertimento — Oliver Waespe

2021-2022

  • 📍Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 7:00 PM ET

    🎼 Program

    • Santa Fe Saga — Morton Gould

    • October — Eric Whitacre

    • Pasquinade — Louis Moreau Gottschalk, arr. Erik Leidzen

    • On-Again, Off-Again — Jack Frerer

  • 📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 7:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Grant Cooper — Guest Conductor

    • Wynton Marsalis — Composer, A.D. White Professor-at-Large

    • James Spinazzola — Clarinet

    🎼 Program

    • “Profanation” from Symphony No. 1 — Leonard Bernstein, trans. Frank Bencriscutto

    • Pasquinade — Louis Moreau Gottschalk, trans. Erik Leidzen

    • “Blues” for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble — Wynton Marsalis, arr. James Spinazzola, with James Spinazzola, Clarinet

    • “Ragtime” from Jazz: 6 1/2 Syncopated Movements — Wynton Marsalis, arr. James Spinazzola

    • “Jubilo” from Jazz: 6 1/2 Syncopated Movements — Wynton Marsalis, arr. James Spinazzola

    • On-Again, Off-Again — Jack Frerer

  • 📍 Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, MD
    🕢 4:30 PM ET

    🎼 Program

    • Overture to “The Cowboys” — John Williams, trans. Lavender

    • “Blues” for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble — Wynton Marsalis, arr. Spinazzola

    • “Ragtime” from Jazz: 6 1/2 Syncopated Movements — Wynton Marsalis, arr. Spinazzola

    • “Jubilo” from Jazz: 6 1/2 Syncopated Movements — Wynton Marsalis, arr. Spinazzola

    • Bifrost — Jude Vaclavik

    • On-Again, Off-Again — Jack Frerer

  • 📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 3:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Greg Evans — Drums

    🎼 Program

    • Overture to “Il Guarany” — Carlos Gomes, trans. Herbert L. Clarke

    • Concerto for Drumset and Wind Ensemble — Dana Wilson, with Greg Evans, Drums

    • Colonial Song — Percy Grainger

    • Bifrost — Jude Vaclavik

    • Conga del Fuego Nuevo — Arturo Márquez, trans. Nickel

    • Symphony No. 4 — David Maslanka

2020-2021

  • 📍Arts Quad, Cornell University
    🕢 3:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Xak Bjerken — Piano

    • Omer Kayhan — Guest Conductor

    🎼 Program

    • Serenade for Winds in E-flat, Op. 7 — Richard Strauss, with Omer Kayhan, Conductor

    • Overture to “Treemonisha” — Scott Joplin, arr. Rick Benjamin

    • Rhapsody in Blue — George Gershwin, trans. Donald Hunsberger

    • Little Threepenny Music — Kurt Weill

2018-2019

  • 📍Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 3:00 PM ET

    🎼 Program

    • Sonata pian’e forte — Giovanni Gabrieli

    • Sinfonia for Winds — Gaetano Donizetti

    • Overture to “Colas Breugnon” — Dmitri Kabalevsky, trans. Donald Hunsberger

    • Huldigungsmarsch — Richard Wagner

    • Southern Harmony — Donald Grantham

  • 📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 7:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Cornell Dancers — Choreographed by Jumay Chu

    • USAF Heritage of America Band

    🎼 Program

    • Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs — Leonard Bernstein

    • Selections from “The Danserye” — Tielman Susato, trans. Patrick Dunnigan

    • Montuno — Roberto Sierra, trans. James Spinazzola

    • Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story” — Leonard Bernstein, trans. Paul Lavender

  • 📍 Jacmel, Haiti
    📅 Saturday, January 12th, 2019

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Musicians from the Holy Trinity Music School — The Rev. David Cesar, Conductor

    • Sydney Guillaume — Composer

    🎼 Program

    • World Premiere Composition — Sydney Guillaume

    📍 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Carol Morgan School
    📅 Tuesday, January 15th, 2019

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Carol Morgan School High School

  • 📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 3:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Juliana Pepinsky — Flute

    • Barry Sharp — Composer

    • Ithaca High School Wind Ensemble

    🎼 Program

    • Capriccio Espagnol — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, trans. Lawrence Odom

    • “Silver Lining” Flute Concerto — Frank Ticheli, with Juliana Pepinsky

    • Familiar Landscapes — Barry Sharp (Premiere)

    • Romanian Overture — Thomas Doss

  • 📍 Klarman Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 7:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    Cornell Wind Octet

    Austin Cody — Vocalist

    Brigid Lucey — Vocalist

    🎼 Program

    Serenade in E-flat, K. 375 — W.A. Mozart

    Bastien und Bastienne — W.A. Mozart, trans. James Spinazzola

  • 📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 3:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Daniel Sabzghabaei — Composer

    • Cornell Chorale & Chamber Singers — Conducted by Stephen Spinelli

    🎼 Program

    • Rocky Point Holiday — Ron Nelson

    • Lincolnshire Posy — Percy Grainger

    • New Work — Daniel Sabzghabaei (Premiere)

    • Aurora Awakes — John Mackey

    • Symphony of Psalms — Igor Stravinsky

2017-2018

  • 📍Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 3:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • David Borden — Composer

    • Blaise Bryski — Pianist

    • Mark Winges — Composer

    🎼 Program

    • Variations on “America” — Charles Ives, trans. William Rhodes

    • Variations on America by Charles Ives as Heard on the Jingle Jangle Morning in Emerson Playground by You and the Signers of the United States Constitution (and who knows, maybe the FBI) — David Borden, ed. James Spinazzola

    • Breath & Hammers — Mark Winges, with pianist Blaise Bryski (Premiere)

    • Irish Tune from County Derry — [Composer Unknown]

    • Shepherd’s Hey — Percy Grainger

    • Angels in the Architecture — Frank Ticheli

  • 📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 8:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Janice Macaulay — Composer

    • Cornell Klezmer Ensemble

    🎼 Program

    • A Solemn Fanfare — Byron Adams (Premiere)

    • Early One Morning from “Old Wine in New Bottles” — Gordon Jacob

    • March from “Symphonic Metamorphosis” — Paul Hindemith, trans. Keith Wilson

    • Kaleidoscope — Janice Macaulay (Premiere)

    • Lost Vegas — Michael Daugherty

    • Yiddish Dances — Adam Gorb

  • 📍 Woolsey Hall, Yale University
    🕢 2:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Blaise Bryski — Pianist

    • Paul Merrill — Trumpet

    🎼 Program

    • Variations on “America” — Charles Ives, trans. William Rhodes

    • Variations on America by Charles Ives as Heard on the Jingle Jangle Morning in Emerson Playground by You and the Signers of the United States Constitution (and who knows, maybe the FBI) — David Borden, ed. James Spinazzola

    • Breath & Hammers — Mark Winges, with Blaise Bryski, piano

    • Acknowledgement from “A Love Supreme” — John Coltrane, arr. Wynton Marsalis, trans. James Spinazzola

    • Prologue from “West Side Story” — Leonard Bernstein, arr. Dave Grusin, trans. James Spinazzola, with Paul Merrill, trumpet

    • Overture to “Candide” — Leonard Bernstein, trans. Clare Grundman

  • 📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 8:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Wynton Marsalis — Guest Composer & Performer, A.D. White Professor-at-Large

    • Cornell Jazz Ensemble

    🎼 Program

    • Overture to “Candide” — Leonard Bernstein, trans. Clare Grundman

    • Prologue from “West Side Story” — Leonard Bernstein, arr. Dave Grusin, trans. James Spinazzola

    • Concerto for Cootie — Duke Ellington, trans. James Spinazzola

    • Tourist Point of View from “The Far East Suite” — Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn, arr. James Spinazzola

    • Acknowledgement from “A Love Supreme” — John Coltrane, arr. Wynton Marsalis, trans. James Spinazzola

  • 📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 3:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Michael Sparhuber — Percussionist

    🎼 Program

    • Serenade in C minor, K. 388 — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    • “Hubris” from Wine-Dark Sea: Symphony for Band — John Mackey

    • Percussion Concerto — Jennifer Higdon, with Michael Sparhuber, percussion

2016-2017

  • 📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 3:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Joseph W. Hermann — Guest Conductor

    • James Spinazzola — Saxophone

    🎼 Program

    • Fanfare from “Soundings” — Cindy McTee

    • Jug Blues and Fat Pickin’ — Don Freund

    • Holy Roller — Libby Larson, with James Spinazzola, saxophone and Joseph W. Hermann, guest conductor

    • Danzon No. 2 — Arturo Márquez, trans. Oliver Nickel

    • El Salon Mexico — Aaron Copland, trans. Mark Hindsley

    • Head Rush — Jay Bocook

  • 📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 8:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Justin Chervony — Tuba

    • Stephen Spinelli — Narrator

    🎼 Program

    • Are You Experienced? — David Lang, with Justin Chervony, tuba and Stephen Spinelli, narrator

    • Downey Overture — Oscar Navarro

    • Toccata Marziale — Ralph Vaughan Williams

    • Hymn for the Innocent — Julie Giroux

    • Baron Samedi’s Sarabande (and Soft Shoe) — Donald Grantham

    • Baron Cimetière’s Mambo — Donald Grantham

    • Folk Dances — Dmitri Shostakovich, ed. H. Robert Reynolds

  • 📍 2010 Earthquake Commemoration, Kiosk Occide Jeanty, Port-au-Prince, Haiti 2010 Earthquake Commemoration
    📅 Thursday, January 12th, 2017

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Musicians from the Holy Trinity Music School — The Rev. David Cesar, Conductor

    • Members of the Yale University Concert Band — Thomas Duffy, Conductor

    📍 UNESCO World Heritage Site, Palais Sans-Souci, Milot, Haiti
    📅 Saturday, January 14, 2017

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Musicians from the Holy Trinity Music School — The Rev. David Cesar, Conductor

    • Members of the Yale University Concert Band — Thomas Duffy, Conductor

    📍 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
    📅 Tuesday, January 17, 2017

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Carol Morgan School High School Band — Cody Gifford, Conductor

  • 📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 3:00 PM ET

    • 🎶 Featured Artists

    • David Maslanka — Composer

    • Ithaca High School Wind Ensemble

    🎼 Program

    • Cathedrals — Kathryn Salfelder

    • Husa — David Maslanka (Premiere)

    • Symphony No. 8 — David Maslanka

  • 📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 3:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Andrew Zhou — Piano

    🎼 Program

    • An Outdoor Overture — Aaron Copland

    • Fanfare for Karel — Dana Wilson (Premiere)

    • Concertino for Piano and Wind Ensemble, Second Movement — Karel Husa

    • Berceuse Infinie — Christopher Rouse, trans. James Spinazzola (Premiere)

    • Music for Prague 1968 — Karel Husa

2015-2016

  • 📍 Kulp Auditorium, Ithaca High School
    🕢 3:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Members of the Ithaca High School Concert Band — Directed by Nicki Zawel

    🎼 Program

    • mono no aware — Simon Hutchinson (Premiere)

    • Awayday — Adam Gorb

    • Colonial Song — Percy Grainger

    • Mountain Light — Gerald Levinson

    • Armenian Dances, Part I — Alfred Reed, with members of the Ithaca High School Concert Band

  • 📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 8:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Patrick Williams — Guest Composer & Conductor

    🎼 Program

    • Symphonies of Wind Instruments — Igor Stravinsky

    • An American Concerto — Patrick Williams, arr. James Spinazzola, conducted by Patrick Williams (Premiere)

    • Symphony No. 6 — Vincent Persichetti

  • 📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 3:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Andrew Lucia — Video

    • Emily DiAngelo — Oboe

    🎼 Program

    • Velocity Meadows — Christopher Stark, with Emily DiAngelo, oboe and video by Andrew Lucia

    • Prelude to Act III of “Lohengrin” — Richard Wagner, arr. Drumm

    • “Blessed Are They” from Ein Deutsches Requiem — Johannes Brahms, arr. Buehlman

    • Time’s Harvest — Edwin Roxburgh

    • Redline Tango — John Mackey

  • 📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University
    🕢 3:00 PM ET

    🎶 Featured Artists

    • Colonel Larry Lang — Commander & Conductor of the United States Air Force Band, Guest Conductor

    • Richard MacDowell — Clarinet

    🎼 Program

    • Awayday — Adam Gorb

    • Ballad for Band — Morton Gould

    • Affirmation — Wayne Oquin

    • Liquid Ebony — Dana Wilson, with Richard MacDowell, clarinet

    • Firefly — Ryan George

    • Symphony No. 2 — Frank Ticheli

    This program is presented in memory and honor of professors emeriti Marice Stith and Steven Stucky.