Home
Announcing the WWE 2011 – 2012 Concert Season
The Winnipeg Wind Ensemble is excited to announce our performance line-up for the 2011-12 concert season! All performances take place at Jubilee Place (180 Riverton Avenue). Tickets are $10 ($5 students/seniors), available at the door.
Bach and Beyond
Sunday, October 23, 3:00 PM
Featuring the Artie Shaw Clarinet Concerto performed by clarinet soloist Naoum Gomon
and with special guests:
Acadia Junior High Grade 9 Concert Band – Darryl Ferguson, Director
Heaven and Earth
Sunday, February 12, 3:00 PM
with special guests:
MBCI Concert Band – Andrew Klassen, Director
Around the World
Monday, May 7, 7:30 PM
with special High School Guest Musicians
Sounds of Time
The Winnipeg Wind Ensemble presents The Sounds of Time, Monday May 16th at 7:30 PM. This annual community concert will feature 45 of Winnipeg’s top High School musicians for the second half of the concert. Repertoire will include:
Gustav Holst — First Suite in E-flat for Military Band
Darius Milhaud — Suite Française
Scott McAllister — Free Birds featuring Janna Starling and Wesley Ferreira, clarinet soloists
Samuel Hazo — Exultate
Percy Grainger — Irish Tune from County Derry
Jonathan Dagenais — Symbiopholie!
Alfred Reed — El Camino Real
Tickets $5 (students/seniors), $10 (adults), available at the door. Concert takes place at Jubilee Place (MBCI), 180 Riverton Ave.
Listen to our New Music Festival Performance
A recording of the February 1 evening at the WSO New Music Festival is now available on the CBC Radio 2 website. Host Laurie Brown takes us through the evening’s program that includes our performance of Gary Kulesha’s Confusion of Tongues (second on the program). Click here for the streaming audio of this February 12 broadcast. Click here to view the playlist for this episode of The Signal.
Excitement of a three-ring circus
Gwenda Nemerofsky described our February 1 world premiere performance of Gary Kulesha’s The Confusion of Tongues at the WSO’s New Music Festival as “curiously magical” and “made our skin tingle”. Read the full review on-line here.
Traditions!
On Sunday, February 13th at 3:30 PM the WWE presents Traditions! This concert of great wind band music will take place at Jubilee Place, 180 Riverton Ave. Repertoire will include:
Festive Overture (Shostakovich/trans. Hunsberger)
Give Us This Day (David Maslanka)
Concerto for Clarinet (Rimsky-Korsakov)
. Naoum Gomon, clarinet soloist
Florentiner March (Julius Fucik/arr. Fennel)
Suite from Mass (Leonard Berstein/arr. Sweeney)
Be Thou My Vision (David Gillingham)
Fiddler on the Roof (Jerry Bock/arr. Barker)
Tickets $10 adults, $5 students/seniors. Available at the door.
20th New Music Festival – Circus Maximus
Join the WWE and the Winnipeg Symphony Winds for the World Premiere performance of Gary Kulesha’s The Confusion of Tongues. Show starts at 7:30 at the Centennial Concert Hall. Pre concert discussion at 6:40 and pre-concert performance at 7:00. Click here for full details.
Canadian Wind Conductor Development Program 2011
CWCDP announces the dates for the 2011 session, July 15 to 21, 2011 at St. John’s Ravenscourt School. The guest conductor in residence will be Dr. Shelley Jagow, Director of Bands from Wright State University (Ohio) and 2009 NYB conductor. The Winnipeg Wind Ensemble will again be the workshop band for this great P.D. opportunity. Visit the CWCDP website for more information. www.canadianconductor.ca
MBA Senior Honour Band Concert
Recordings of this concert are now available for download. Visit our Recordings page now!
MBA Senior Honour Band Concert
Join us at Jubilee Place on November 6th for a joint concert with the Manitoba Band Association Senior Honour Band under the direction of Gillian MacKay. This will be an exciting night of wind band music with performances by both the Winnipeg Wind Ensemble and the MBA Senior Honour Band. Doors open at 6:30, concert at 7:30 PM. Tickets at the door. Adults $10, MBA and students in grade 9 or older $5. Free to all others.
Dances With Winds
October 24, 2010 – 3:30 PM
Join the WWE and Artistic Director Jacqueline Dawson for this exciting season opener! Repertoire will include:
Symphonic Dance No. 3 (Clifton Williams)
The Solitary Dancer, (Warren Benson)
Danceries, (Kenneth Hesketh)
Danzón No. 2 (Marquéz/trans. Nickel)
Circus Polka (Igor Stravinsky)
Four Scottish Dances – Mvt. 3 (Malcolm Arnold/arr. Paynter)
Dance of the Jesters, (Tchaikovsky/trans. Cramer)
Tickets are $5 for students/seniors, $10 for adults (available at the door).
Jubilee Place (MBCI), 180 Riverton Avenue
Announcing the 2010-11 Concert Season
Details for the 2010-11 concert season have just been released:
Dances With Winds
October 24, 2010, 3:30 PM
Jubilee Place
MBA Senior Honour Band
November 6, 2010, 7:30 PM
Jubilee Place
New Music Festival
February 1, 2011, 7:30 PM
Centennial Concert Hall
Traditions!
February 13, 2011, 3:30 PM
Jubilee Place
The Sounds of Time
May 16, 2011, 7:30 PM
Jubilee Place
Recordings of 2009-10 Concerts Now Available
Click on the “Recordings” tab above to listen to recordings of our three concerts for the 2009-10 season.
True North a Success
Thank-you to all the guest musicians who joined the WWE for our final concert of this season. Stay tuned for details on our 2010-11 season!
Poster for True North Concert Available for Download
Click here to download a printable version of the poster. Feel free to post this anywhere you like and help spread the word!
Program Announced for True North Concert on May 3
To include:
Colors and Contrasts of Grief – Suchan
Spring Break – McMullin (Manitoba)
Frenergy – Estacio/arr. Linklater
Newfoundland Rhapsody – Cable
Fantasie – MacKay
Hockey Night in Canada – Claman/arr. Cable
Our CD Saturn Sky Now Available on CD Baby
Visit our page on CD Baby to purchase our CD, Saturn Sky.
The Power of Song a Success!
Thank-you for experiencing our March 14 concert, The Power of Song, with us. The joint performance of Carmina Burana with the Renaissance Voices and Curtis Bamford and Gary Pollard’s soloistic playing in Quiet City were real highlights.
Video of our New Music Festival Performance
Recorded Tuesday, February 9th at the Winnipeg New Music Festival. On the 5th evening of the festival, Arctic Dreams, the Winnipeg Wind Ensemble performs the Canadian premiere of Steven Stucky’s moving work Threnos. Stucky wrote Threnos in memory of a friend and colleague.
Arctic Dreams perfectly crafted
Winnipeg Free Press, February 10, 2010
A beautiful noise was heard Tuesday night as the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s New Music Festival rumbled through night four of its week-long celebration of contemporary music. The festival is exploring all things Arctic this year, with Tuesday’s program, Arctic Dreams, showcasing the impressive band talent in this province… click here for full article.
Join our Facebook Group and stay up to date with the latest news and events from the Winnipeg Wind Ensemble.