Music not only uplifts listeners, but can elevate the people, instruments and ideas that comprise it. Acclaimed bandleader, composer, and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis opens the program with Herald, Holler and Hallelujah! paying homage to works like Duke Ellington’s Black, Brown and Beige, Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, and the jazz funeral swing band tradition of New Orleans. Dana Wilson’s Concerto for Contrabass and Wind Ensemble opens up a platform for the lowest string instrument to shine and Kevin Day’s Concerto for Wind Ensemble fuses together the wind band world with the music he grew up with: hip-hop, R&B, jazz and gospel. The Marine Band also welcomes the work of its 2023 Call for Scores winner Michael Goodman, and will premiere the composer’s new piece “Double Quintet,” in an effort to expand the contemporary repertoire for winds and percussion.

Featuring the World Premiere of “Back 2 Work” for Wind Band.

Featuring the world premiere of “From Within” for Wind Band.

Featuring the world premiere of “Pneumatic Funk”.

Featuring the world premiere of “Tension and Release” performed by Harry Castle and Drew Hosler.

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Featuring the world premiere of “Just Browsing”. The concert will be livestreamed here.

Come visit Booth #2026 to meet me! My piece, Perseverance, will be at this booth as well!

Featuring Handwashing Fun! premiered by David Bohn via YouTube

Featuring A Stairway Out of Quarantine premiered by Moreau VanTuinen Duo.

Featuring Isolated Note premiered by Nicolas Lira

Featuring the performance of The Two Siblings.

Featuring a performance of Calm by Daniel Chan and Rainbow Lau.

Featuring a performance of Running Late by Courtney Sherman.

Featuring a performance of The Two Siblings.

Featuring a performance of The Two Siblings.

Featuring a performance of Running Late by Cacophonie Tamayo-Staub.

Premiere of Running Late by Cacophonie Tamayo-Staub.

Featuring a performance of The Two Siblings.

Featuring a performance of Test Drive by New Music Ensemble conducted by Jamal Duncan.

Featuring the premiere of Habitual Metamorphosis by The Great Noise Ensemble. Choreography

by Breanne Horne.

Featuring the premiere of Compact Bricks by the Beo String Quartet.

Featuring a performance of Dialectics by Nanci Belmont.

Premiere performance of A Quest for Tuba by Philip Sinder and the East

Lansing Euphonium Company.

Pre-premiere performance of A Quest for Tuba by Philip Sinder and the East

Lansing Euphonium Company.

Featuring a performance of The Two Siblings.