wellington wind symphony

The Wellington Wind Symphony is in its 36th season of outstanding, entertaining concerts. They offer varied programs of wonderful, familiar music as well as the best of wind repertoire that appeals to a wide audience. The Winds concerts are known for their informality and for the enjoyable commentary provided by the Music Director.

The group has released a number of CDs and a DVD about the Wellington Wind Symphony featuring great music and interviews. In addition, they have created a YouTube channel presenting the finest of music for concert band, much of it written by Canadian composers.

www.youtube.com/wellingtonwindsymphony

In addition to their annual series, they have performed with the Grand Philhar monic Choir, at MusicFest Canada in Toronto, at the Guelph Spring Festival, as co-host of the Music Is For Life Symposium, in workshops for students, and for the Canadian Music Educators’ Conference.

music directorDaniel Warren is entering his seventh season as Music director of the Wellington Wind Symphony. His recent conducting duties include Resident Conductor of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony and Interim Artistic Advisor and conductor for Orchestra London Canada. He is in frequent demand as a guest conductor and has done so across Canada with many orchestras including the Toronto Symphony, the National Arts

Centre Orchestra and the Edmonton Symphony. He is very active as an arranger, a recent work being played by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, England.

guest artists

wellington wind symphony

Daniel Warren – Music Director*Michael Purves-Smith – Conductor Laureate

FluteLen Bradfield*Colleen MiltenburgGreg Stroh*Rosanne Warren

PiccoloGreg Stroh

OboeMichael Purves-Smith*

BassoonGinny Scarfino*Joe Schwarz

Eb ClarinetStephen Fox

ClarinetNancy Anderson*Cathy BaerAnita Brooks Kirkland*Martin Dowding Larry Moser (Concertmaster)Allison Nelson (Librarian)Shannon Purves-Smith

Bass ClarinetLucie Gentils-Grandin

Contrabass ClarinetKen Fudurich

PianoIan VanderBurgh

SaxophoneDanielle Beck (Alto)Ginger Pullen* (Alto / Chair)Sarah Coles (Tenor)Josh Crouch* (Baritone)

TrumpetGerry AchtymichukGreg DavisEric DettweilerMike HagedornRichard Wootton

French HornBarb BrandonRandi PattersonEvelyn Somer Tony Snyder

TromboneCarolyn CulpSusan Follows (Bass) Susan Lee

EuphoniumJohn Monkhouse

TubaAllan Lee

Double BassArt Lang

PercussionLori MuraltEaston Page

Kitchener and Waterloo Community FoundationOntario Trillium FoundationCity of Kitchener

Woolwich Community FundCity of WaterlooRegion of Waterloo Arts Fund

sponsorship & supportThe Wellington Wind Symphony thanks the following:

*Board of Directors

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2015/2016SeasonRachel Thomas

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Stephen FoxAlto Clarinet

Michael Purves-SmithComposer

Amy Waller-PrinceOpera Singer

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Ticket sales cover less than half of our annual operating expenses. We rely on individual donors and sponsors to make up the difference. We need your support to continue to bring music to our community.

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Mail to: Wellington Wind Symphony31 Arthur St. N., Elmira, ON N3B 1Z6

You may also donate online at www.canadahelps.org.

Series subscriptions and tickets also available at the door.

Information: 519-669-1327 www.wellingtonwindsymphony.ca

Sunday, October 23, 2016, 3:00 p.m.Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo

Sunday, October 30, 2016, 3:00 p.m.Grandview Baptist Church, Kitchener

moving masterpieces winds

Amy E. W. Prince – SopranoDaniel Warren – Conductor

Mostly under the influence of the great master of wind writing, Richard Strauss, this program features soprano Amy Waller singing his beloved Four Last Songs, instrumental versions of Allerseelen and Zueignung, and the effervescent Waltzes from the Rosenkavalier. The program is rounded out with Eric Whitacre’s moving Cloudburst, Boris Kozhevnikov Symphony No. 3: Slavyanskaya, and Bach/Reed, Komm, süsser Tod.

Sunday, December 11, 2016, 8 p.m.Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo

carols, arias, surprising treasures

Daniel Warren – Conductor

This unusual, delightful concert features soloists from the ensemble playing beloved Christmas carols and opera arias in front of the ensemble. This is your chance to hear Music Director, Dan Warren as a cornet and trumpet star, along with principal sax, Danielle Beck, clarinet duo, Cathy Baer and Ginny Scarfino, and principal tuba, Allan Lee. The program will be filled out with memorable and popular music from an extensive library recently added to that of the Winds as a generous gift from the Kitchener Musical Society Band.

Please note: One performance only at 8:00 p.m.

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wellington winds cds & dvdAn Artist’s Neighbourhood

Wellington Winds Live – Audience Favourites‘Tis the Season • Winter Wonderland

DVD Appassionato – The Wellington Winds Story

For more information about these or to place an order, please visit www.wellingtonwindsymphony.ca

or phone 519-669-1327.

performance locationsKitchenerGrandview Baptist Church, 250 Old Chicopee Dr.

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All series concerts at 3:00 p.m. (except December 11, 2016 which starts at 8:00 p.m.)For your convenience, tickets are honoured at all locations.

Single tickets are available at the door.

All students are admitted free to Wellington Wind Symphony concerts.

Series subscriptions are available by mailing the attached order form.

information519-669-1327 www.wellingtonwindsymphony.ca

Sunday, March 5, 2017, 3:00 p.m.Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo

Sunday, March 12, 2017, 3:00 p.m.Grandview Baptist Church, Kitchener

european tradition

Rachel Thomas – TromboneDaniel Warren – Conductor

This concert includes some memorable original music for wind symphony and a beautiful transcription of one of Mahler’s most beloved movements, Symphony no.3, mvt 1: Mendelssohn, Overture for Band; Fisher Tull, Sketches on a Tudor Psalm; Matthew Arnold, Prelude, Siciliano, and Rondo, Guilmant, Morceau symphonique (trombone solo); Canada’s Howard Cable, Ten Provinces March.

Sunday, April 30, 2017, 3:00 p.m.Grandview Baptist Church, Kitchener

Sunday, May 7, 2017, 3:00 p.m.Knox Presbyterian Church, Waterloo

wind symphony whimsy

Stephen Fox – Alto ClarinetDaniel Warren – Conductor

Containing some of the most memorable music for the medium, all in this program was written originally for wind symphony: Howard Cable, Scottish Rhapsody; Holst, Second Suite for Military Band; Alfred Reed, Othello, Symphonic Portrait for Concert Band; William Schuman, New England Triptych, Purves-Smith, The Seven Deadly Sins (solo Alto Clarinet and Wind Symphony).

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