The Wisconsin Wind Orchestra: "IMPRESSIONS"

121 Wisconsin Avenue,Waukesha WI 53186

03 October, 2021

Description

The Wisconsin Wind Orchestra, one of the few professional chamber wind ensembles in the world, will present a concert. The Wisconsin Wind Orchestra, one of the few professional chamber wind ensembles in the world, will present a concert at First United Methodist Church, Waukesha, on Sunday, October 3 beginning at 4 pm. The concert is free and open to the public. A freewill offering will be accepted. This will be the first public appearance of the ensemble since the beginning of the pandemic last year. Just prior to that they had just completed a successful tour of California with a series of concerts and masterclasses. The wind orchestra will perform a varied program of music ranging from a Renaissance battle piece, to beautiful Impressionist works by Ravel and Debussy, delightful classic music by Haydn, a concerto for bassoon featuring principal bassoonist, Andrew Jackson, and a world premiere of a new piece called Laredo Variations from the pen of the group's conductor, Lawrence Dale Harper. Harper established the Wisconsin Wind Orchestra in 1995 as one of the only professional wind ensembles in the world. They regularly perform concerts at venues throughout Wisconsin, have made numerous CD recordings acclaimed by the American Record Guide and the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, and have appeared in concerts and radio broadcasts at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and the Conservatorio F. Morlacchi in Perugia, Italy. In their Europe concert tour of 2017 they were featured artists at the Segni Barocchi Festival of Foligno, Italy and appeared in concert in front of a sold out audience at the Teatro della Concordia in Montecastello di Vibio. In 2015 and 2017 they were also artists-in-residence at the International Music Project's International Conducting Symposium of Umbria, Italy. Comprised of Wisconsin's finest freelance musicians, the ensemble builds on the tradition of musical excellence found in major symphony orchestras, the innovation of wind groups such as the Eastman Wind Ensemble and Netherlands Wind Ensemble, and the technical versatility of the premier military bands. The personnel of the WWO regularly perform with other noted orchestras such as the Wisconsin Philharmonic, Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra, Florentine and Skylight Opera Companies, Present Music, the Madison, Kenosha, Green Bay and Racine Symphonies, the Festival City Symphony, and the Madison and Concord Chamber Orchestras. Formerly professor of music at Carroll University, conductor of the Wisconsin Wind Orchestra, member of the board of directors of the International Music Project