IGEB, the International Society for the Promotion and Research of Wind Music, is proud to announce the winners of the Thelen Prize for 2012. The prize, awarded biennially, memorializes Fritz Thelen, one of IGEBs cofounders. It will be presented at the conference in Coimbra, Portugal, between July 12 and 17, 2012. 

The 2012 Screening Committee (Wolfgang Suppan (Pürgg, Austria), Raoul Camus (New York, USA), Hellmut Mahling (Mainz, Germany)) and the 2012 Selection Committee (Klaus Aringer (Graz, Austria), Robert Grechesky (Indianapolis, USA), Francis Pieters (Kortrijk, Belgium) choose the following outstanding dissertations in the field of wind music research:

David GASCHE, PhD 
La musique de circonstance pour Harmoniemusik à Vienne (1760-1820), Universities of  Vienna (A) and Tours (F), 2009 

Peter HECKL, PhD. 
W. A. Mozarts Instrumentalkompositionen in Bearbeitungen für Harmoniemusik vor 1840, Oberschützen (A), 2011 

All WASBE members are welcome to join our reception during the Midwest clinic in Chicago. The reception is assigned to CC20, located on the second level of the Hyatt Conference Center on Wednesday, December 14th from 5.30-7.00 pm

Applications to Host the 2015 WASBE Conference

Locations wishing to host the 2015 WASBE Conference should send a letter of application to the WASBE President prior to 30 April 2012. The letter of application should include the following supporting materials:

Applications to Perform at the 16th WASBE Conference 2013

Wind bands and ensembles wishing to perform at the 2013 WASBE Conference in Valencia, Spain  (July 7-13, 2013)  should apply to the Chairperson for Conference Performances, Dennis L. Johnson before 1 May 2012. The Letter of Application should include the following supporting materials:

Tim Reynish will share his thoughts on repertoire and composers in the next issues of the WASBE World-Magazine and online.Besides the printed article in the magazine, the web offers many more audio-visual possibilities.
You´ll find the first part of Tim‘s article on World Wind Repertoire in the Members Only Section of the Website. Enjoy!

Peter Bucher (Switzerland), József Csikota (Hungary), Cynthia Johnston Turner (USA) and Phillip Scott (Great Britain) are the new elected members of the WASBE Board until 2017. New president elect is Bert Aalders (The Netherlands) who will follow Odd Terje Lysebo (Norway) in 2013 as new president of WASBE.