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University of Hawai'i Wind Ensemble

Performed Literature, 2011-

Spring 2019
Spring Concert
Omiccioli - [fuse]
Saint-Saëns - Orient et Occident, op.25

Higdon - Mysterium
Milhaud - Suite
Française

Dagenais - Symbiopholie!


Waiawa Correctional Facility performance
Omiccioli - [fuse]

King - Kamehameha Waltz

Beecher & Noble - Song of Old Hawaii

Sousa - Hands Across the Sea

King - Na Lei O Hawaii

Milhaud - Suite Française, selections

Here in this Enchanted Place

King, Ke Kali Nei Aua (
Hawaiian Wedding Song)

Dagenais - Symbiopholie!

Liliu’okalani, Aloha ‘Oe

Stevens, Hawaii 5-0


Aloha Concert

Lane - Astrarium

McCune - High Water Rising

Lutosławski - Paganini Variations (Noe Baladad, piano, Student Concerto Competition winner)

Persichetti - Symphony No. 6


Fall 2018
International Market Place Concert
Nishimura - Sparkleberry (world premiere)

Elliott - British Eighth

McAllister - Bieber Fever

Anderson - Bugler’s Holiday (Parker Nakamura, Tate Sakamoto, Matt Yamada, soloists)

Tatum/Daellenbach - Tuba Tiger Rag (Gabriel Choy, Johnathan deSoto, Lucas Toor, soloists)

Chen Yi - Spring Festival (Adam Kehl, conductor)

Arnold - Four Scottish Dances

Lili‘uokalani - Aloha ‘Oe


Fall Concert w/ Kailua IS Concert Band and Kalani HS Wind Ensemble

Nishimura - Sparkleberry (world premiere)
Salfelder - Cathedrals
Giroux - One Life Beautiful
Chen Yi - Spring Festival (Adam Kehl, conductor)
McAllister - Bieber Fever
Arnold - Four Scottish Dances

Chamber Winds Concert
Tower - Fanfare for an Uncommon Woman
Pann - The Bach Buch
Grainger - The Merry King

Torke - “Priority” from Overnight Mail

Gulda - Concerto for Cello and Wind Orchestra - I-Bei Lin, cello


A Mānoa Christmas

Herbert - March of the Toys

Tchaikovsky - Selections from the Nutcracker


Spring 2018
Spring Concert
 - Tributes & Anniversaries
Leonard Bernstein - Prelude, Fugue and Riffs
David Maslanka - Requiem
Karel Husa - Music for Prague 1968

Aloha Concert - “American Vernaculars”
Carolyn Bremer - Early Light
William Bolcom - Graceful Ghost Rag
Adolphus Hailstork - American Guernica
Valerie Coleman - Umoja (premiere)
Carter Pann - Hold This Boy and Listen (Rickey Badua, guest conductor)
Michael Daugherty - Niagara Falls


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Fall 2017 - Gabriel Arnold, conductor
Winter Concert
Donald Grantham - Southern Harmony
Grainger - Irish Tune from County Derry
Grainger - Shepherd’s Hey
Steven Bryant - Whirlwind
Alford - The Purple Carnival

Fall Concert
John Heed - In Storm and Sunshine
Gustav Holst - Second Suite in F
Percy Grainger - Colonial Song
Grainger - Children's March
Frank Ticheli - Wild Nights!



Spring 2017
Spring Concert - Alex Shapiro, Guest Composer
Etezady - Shoutout
​Stravinsky - Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Shapiro - Moment
Peck - Cave (Christine Maxwell, choreographer)
Shapiro - Homecoming

Hawai'i Island Tour Concert
Etezady - Shoutout
Shostakovich (arr. De Meij) - Waltz No. 2
Piazzolla (arr. Longfield) - Oblivion (Daniel Sananikone, solo flugelhorn)
Kabalevsky - “Galop” from The Comedians (Reid Ishikawa, solo xylophone)
Agapkin - A Slavic Farewell
Selections from UH Bands Woodwind and Brass Quintets 

Mussorgsky (arr. Lavender) - Baba Yaga and Great Gate of Kiev from Pictures at an Exhibition

Aloha Concert
Ono - The World Needs Heroes (Tyler Ono, Student Composition Competition winner)
Liszt (arr. Bingham) - Totentanz (Tyler Ramos, solo piano - Student Concerto Competition winner)
Mussorgsky (arr. Lavender) - Pictures at an Exhibition


Fall 2016
1st concert:
Sousa - The Gallant Seventh
Anderson - The Irish Washerwoman
Grainger - Ye Banks and Braes O Bonnie Doon
Anderson - The Rakes of Mallow
Piazzolla (arr. Longfield) - Oblivion (Sara Ricer, solo oboe)
Mendez - Diamond Head March
Kabalevsky - “Galop” from The Comedians (Reid Ishikawa, solo xylophone)
McAllister- More Cowbell
Leemans (arr. Wiley) - Marche des Parachutistes Belges
Shostakovich (arr. De Meij) - Waltz No. 2
Saint-Saens (arr. Frackenpohl) - Pas Redouble

2nd concert: Elastic Bands
Gabrieli - Canzon in Echo Duodecimi Toni à 10
Bernard - Divertissement, op. 36
Marshall - Light
Krenek  - Three Merry Marches
Françaix - Huit Danses Exotiques
Wilson - Winds on the Steppes

3rd concert: Mostly (not) Mozart
Mozart (arr. Wendt) - Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
Mozart (arr. Triebensee) - “Deh vieni alla finestra” from Don Giovanni
Françaix - Mozart New-Look (John Gallagher, double bass)
Dove - Figures in the Garden
Andriessen - M is for Man, Music, Mozart (Rachel Schutz, soprano; Barett Hoover, stage director)

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Spring 2016
Aloha Concert:
Estacio – Frenergy
Higdon - Oboe Concerto (J. Scott Janusch, solo oboe)
Chesnokov - Salvation is Created

​Kozhevnikov - Symphony No. 3, "Slavyanskaya"

Spring Concert:
Theofanidis – Etenraku

Colgrass – Bali
Itoh – Daydreams
Takemitsu - Night Signal
Prangcharoen - Presage (US premiere)
Chen Yi - Suite from China West



Fall 2015
Chance - Incantation and Dance  (Dr. Jeffrey Gershman, guest conductor)
Colgrass - Bali
Gorb - Awayday
Grieg - Funeral Music for Rikard Nordraak (Dr. Jeffrey Gershman, guest conductor)
Koh - Arirang and Akatonbo
Qian Chen - Come, Drink One More Cup
Sparke - Dance Movements
Takemitsu - Night Signal
Theofanidis - Etenraku



Spring 2015
Spring Concert: 
Creatore - March Electric

Whitacre – October (Dr. Fillipo Sallemi, guest conductor)

Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue (Dr. Jonathan Korth, solo piano)
Zaninelli - Three Dances of Enchantment  (Dr. Fillipo Sallemi, guest conductor)
Ticheli - Blue Shades

Aloha Concert: 
Shostakovich – Festive Overture
Holst – Hammersmith
Weill – Threepenny Musik
Dicke – Song of the Telegraph (Ian Dicke, guest composer)


Fall 2014
Anderson – Sleigh Ride (Dr. Robert Bley-Vroman, Chancellor, UH-Mānoa, guest conductor)

Herbert (arr. Clarke) – March of the Toys
Schmitt – Sélamlik
Goto – Songs
Perrine – Pale Blue on Deep (Dr. Christopher Chapman, Oregon State University, guest conductor)
Dello Joio - Variants on a Medieval Tune

Silent Night & Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow (Jimmy Borges, guest vocalist)


Spring 2014

Spring Concert:
Newman - Blow It Up, Start Again

McAllister - Gone
Read Thomas - magneticfireflies
Ziporyn - Drill (Evan Ziporyn, bass clarinet)

Bates - Mothership (Evan Ziporyn, bass clarinet; Ian O'Sullivan, ukulele; Seola Kim, ajaeng; Darin Miyashiro, koto)


Aloha Concert:
Goto - Adrenaline Rush (W. Jordan Goto, UH Music Composition Competition winner)
Gregson - Tuba Concerto (Casey Kitano, UH Music Concerto Competition winner)
Maslanka - Symphony No. 4


Fall 2013
Brahms - Begräbnisgesang (with the UH Concert Choir)
Copland - The Promise of Living (with the UH Concert Choir)
Corigliano - Gazebo Dances
Creston - Celebration Overture
Fučík- Thunder and Blazes
Handel (arr. Van Duffel) - Music for the Royal Fireworks
Marquez (arr. Nickel) - Danzon No.2
Moncayo (arr. Osmon) - Huapango
Reed, H. Owen - La Fiesta Mexicana
Reveultas - Tres Sonetos
Revueltas - Two Little Serious Pieces
Smetana (arr. Nelhybel) - Fanfares from Libuse


Spring 2013
Baadsvik - Fnugg Blue (T.J. Ricer, tuba)
Chen Yi - Dragon Rhyme
Glazunov (arr. Kreines) - Concerto in Eb for Alto Saxophone (Todd Yukumoto, alto saxophone)
Grainger - Lincolnshire Posy
Ives (arr. Thurston) - The Alcotts
Koh - Lament for Wind Orchestra
Kurachi - Moonrise (UH Music Composition Competition Winner)
Lutosławski (arr. Peterson) - Paganini Variations (Nicole Kim, piano - UH Music Concerto  Competition Winner)
Mendez - Diamond Head March
Nelson - Rocky Point Holiday
Theofanidis - I wander the world in a dream of my own making
Tower - Celebration Fanfare


Fall 2012
Anderson - Sleigh Ride (Dr. Tom Apple, Chancellor, UH-Mānoa, guest conductor)
Anderson - A Christmas Festival
Jacob - Old Wine in New Bottles
Fučík - The Florentiner, Grande Marche Italiana
Ginastera (arr. John) - Danza Final from Estancia
Have Yourself A Merry LIttle Christmas & Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow (Loretta Ables Sayre, guest vocalist)
Herbert (arr. Clarke) - March of the Toys
Mendelssohn (arr. Boyd) - Overture for Winds, op. 24
Orff (arr. Wanek) - Carmina Burana
Shostakovich (arr. Reynolds) - Folk Dances
Tchaikovsky (arr. McAllister) - The Nutcracker
Wagner - Trauermusik


Spring 2012
Bedford - Sun Paints Rainbows over the Vast Waves
Björk - Dancer in the Dark
Daugherty - Red Cape Tango
Grainger - Colonial Song
Holst - First Suite in Eb (Grant Okamura, guest conductor)
Mackey - Kingfishers Catch Fire
Saint-Saëns - Orient et Occident, op. 25
Salfelder - Cathedrals
Strauss - Serenade in Eb, op. 7
Ziporyn - The Ornate Zither and the Nomad Flute (Maya Hoover, mezzo-soprano)

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Fall 2011
Beethoven - Rondino in Eb, WoO 25
Bennett - Suite of Old American Dances
Bernstein (arr. Polster) - Dances from West Side Story
Chance - Variations on a Korean Folk Song
Del Tredici - Acrostic Song
Dello Joio - Satiric Dances
Leemans - Marche des Parachutistes Belges
Mahoney - Sparkle
McAllister - More Cowbell!
Mozart - Serenade in C minor, K. 388
Tchaikovsky (arr. Cramer) - Dance of the Jesters