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The University Wind Ensemble is comprised of 53 woodwind, brass,
keyboard and percussion players, and its members are chosen through
competitive auditions held at the beginning of each semester. These
auditions are open to any student on campus, both music majors and
non-music majors. The Wind Ensemble performs multiple concerts on campus
and additional concerts off-campus each semester, including tours,
conferences, and outreach performances. The repertoire is chosen from
the most challenging original literature for band, wind ensemble, and
wind chamber ensemble, ranging from standard repertoire to innovative
modern works.
Wind Ensemble membership at the University of
Delaware leads to the development of superb individual and ensemble
playing skills and artistry; the ensemble has enjoyed recent campus
collaborations with such composers as Jack Stamp and Pulitzer
Prize-winner Joseph Schwantner, as well as consortium commissions of
works by David Maslanka and Steven Danyew. The ensemble has been invited
to perform at Eastern Division meetings of the MENC eight times, and
most recently completed a featured performance at the 2014 Maryland
Music Educators Association State Conference.