Davee Media Library

Bands

Shawn Vondran leads the Symphonic Band in a performance of Gustav Holst's Second Suite in F, presented 100 years after the work's premiere. 

Shawn Vondran leads the Symphonic Band in a performance of Adam Schoenberg’s Finding Rothko, written for chamber orchestra in 2006 and transcribed for wind ensemble by Lance Sample in 2017.

Bienen School alumnus Jacob Nissly ’05 and the Symphonic Wind Ensemble present the world premiere of Losing Earth: Concerto for Percussion and Wind Ensemble by Adam Schoenberg. Mallory Thompson conducts. 

Associate director of bands Shawn D. Vondran conducts the Symphonic Band in Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition

Mallory Thompson conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble in this performance of Karel Husa's Music for Prague 1968.

This program is a journey through five distinct reflections on the American experience.

The Symphonic Wind Ensemble performs Richard Wagner's “Festmarsch” from Tannhäuser for the 2020 Northwestern Commencement. Mallory Thompson conducts. 

Caleb Carpenter ’19 MMus, a winner in the Bienen School’s 2018-2019 Concerto/Aria Competition, performs Ingolf Dahl’s Concerto for Saxophone and Wind Orchestra with the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, conducted by Mallory Thompson.