Concert Programmes
Irish Youth Wind Ensemble
Musical Director: James Cavangh
Guest Conductor: Timothy Reynish
Trumpet Soloist: Mark O’Keefe
- Archibald James Potter: Finnegan’s Wake
- Kamillo Lendvay: Trumpet Concerto
- Kenneth Hesketh: Vranjanka
- John Kinsella: Prelude and Toccata (world premiere)
- Stephen McNeff: Image in Stone (world premiere)
- Nigel Clarke: Samurai
University of Cincinnati Chamber Players (USA)
Musical Director: Rodney Winther
- Vincent D’Indy: Chansons et Danses, Op. 50
- Arthur Bird: Serenade for Wind Instruments
- P. I. Tchaikowsky, arr. Andreas Tarkmann: The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71
- Franz Krommer: Partita in B flat, Op. 78
Gothenburg Symphonic Band (Sweden)
Conductor: Jerker Johansson
- August Söderman: Overture from “The Maid of Orleans”
- Johan Svendsen: All Things Beneath the Firmament
- Marcel Wengler: Versuche über einen Marsch
- Nils Lindgren: Torm Erik’s Song
- Pavol Simai: Baltic Breeze (premiere)
- Dag Wirén: Portia’s Palace Orchestra
- Percy Aldrigde Grainger: Lads of Wamphray
University of Louisville Wind Ensemble (USA)
Musical Director: Frederick Speck
Soprano Soloist: Edith Davis Tidwell
Cello Soloist: Paul York
Marimba Soloist: Greg Byrne
- Bright Sheng: La’i
- Matthew Tommasini: Three Spanish Songs
- Krzyzstof Penderecki: Entrata
- Toru Takemitsu: Day Signal
- Frederick Speck: Night Moves
- Robert Linn: Partita
- Steve Rouse: Blaze
- Karel Husa: Cheetah (European premiere)
- Morton Gould: Fourth of July
- Charles Ives: “They are there!” and The Alcotts
- Joan Tower: Fascinating Ribbons
Royal Irish Academy of Music Percussion Ensemble and Percussion Ensemble Crescendo (The Netherlands)
Details to be announced
Nagoya University of the Arts (Japan)
Conductors: Jan Van der Roost & Masaichi Takeuchi
- Søren Hyldgaard: Tivoli Festival Overture
- Hayato Hirose: Tower of Babel
- Jan Van der Roost: Sinfonietta
- Tetsunosuke Kushida: Fooga
- Modest Mussorgsky, arr. Tohru Takahashi: Pictures at an Exhibition
Chetham’s School of Music Wind Orchestra (Great Britain)
Conductors: David Chatterton & Martin
Bussey
Euphonium Soloist: David Thornton
Saxophone Soloists: John Harle & Rob
Buckland
- Paul Hindemith: Apparebit repentina dies for Choir and brass
- Andy Scott: Dark Rain, Concerto for 2 Saxophones
- Marco Pütz: Euphonium Concerto
- Joseph Phibbs: Rainland
National Youth Wind Ensemble of Great Britain
Musical Director: Philip Scott
Clarinet Soloist: Sarah Williamson
- Kenneth Hesketh: Diaghilev Dances
- Philip Grange: Concerto Sheng Sheng Bù Shi
- Joseph Phibbs: New York (world Premiere)
- Michael Ball: Omaggio
Nanset Wind Ensemble (Norway)
Musical Director: Odd Terje Lysebo
- Dmitri Shostakovich: The Priest and his Servant Balda – Opera in 2 Acts
Birmingham Symphonic Winds (Great Britain)
Conductors: Keith Allen & Guy Woolfenden
Percussion Soloist: Simone Rebello
- Dana Wilson: Shortcut Home
- Jonathan Dove: The Ringing Isle
- Fergal Carroll: Winter Dances
- Philip Sparke: Sierra Nevada
- Guy Woolfenden: Divertimento for Band (world premiere)
- Kenneth Hesketh: Infernal Ride
- Eric Whitacre: Lux Aurumque
- Martin Ellerby: The Canticle of the Sun
- Andrew Boysen, Jr.: Kirkpatrick Fanfare
Royal Symphonic Band Vooruit (Belgium)
Musical Director: Geert Verschaeve
English Horn Soloist: Dimitri Mestday
Clarinet Soloist: Marc Vertessen
- Godfried Devreese: Prelude from “Tombelène”
- Peteris Vasks: English Horn Concerto
- Roland Coryn: Divertimento for Clarinet
- Jacob de Haan: Cantica de Sancto Benedicto
WASBE International Youth Wind Orchestra
Conductors: Gerhard Markson & Glenn Price
Percussion Soloist: Evelyn Glennie
- John Estacio, arr. Fraser Linklater: Frenergy
- Joseph Schwantner, arr. Andrew Boysen: Percussion Concerto
- Christopher Marshall: Resonance
- Ian Wilson: Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel (world premiere)
- Richard Rodney Bennett: Morning Music
Swiss Army Symphonic Wind Orchestra
Conductors: Maj. Philipp Wagner & Jan Cober
- Paul Huber: Marsch Inf Rgt 33
- Derek Bourgeois: March Winds
- Thierry Besançon: Big Jig (world premiere)
- Florent Schmitt: Dionysiaques, op. 62
- Oliver Weaspi: Temples (world premiere)
- Jan Cober remembering Serge Lancen, Armando Blanquer and Henk van Lijnschooten
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