The Wind Ensemble is a full year, 1-credit course. This ensemble performs Seasonal Concerts at Yorktown, participates in the Virginia Band Assessment, and attends the annual Department Spring Trip. Participation in the marching band is a prerequisite for membership to this ensemble.
The repertoire is chosen from orchestral transcriptions and challenging original literature for band and wind chamber ensemble.
Audition for the Wind Ensemble
- YHS Symphonic Band Auditon Sheet
- Auditions will be in late January/February
Recent Repertoire
- Voyage – Bryce Owen
- Windsprints – Richard L. Saucedo
- Chorale and Alleluia – Richard Hanson
- Russian Christmas Music- Alfred Reed
- Second Suite in F For Military Band – Gustav Holst
- October – Eric Whitacre
- Funeral March – Edvard Grieg, trans. Espen Anderson
- On a Hymnsong of Phillip Bliss – David Holsinger
- Shenandoah – Frank Ticheli
- Colonial Song – Percy Grainger
- Xerxes: Concert March – John Mackey
- Armenian Dances (Part 1) – Alfred Reed
- Sea Songs – Ralph Vaughn Williams
- Entry March of the Boyars – Johan Halvorsen, Arr. Fennell
- Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo – Malcolm Arnold
- Variations on an African Hymnsong – Quincy Hilliard
- Magnum Mysterium – Morten Lauridsen/ H. Robert Reynold
- Prelude in the Dorian Mode – Percy Grainger
- Salvation is Created – Frank Erickson
- Mother Earth Fanfare – David Maslanka
- American Elegy – Frank Ticheli
- A Movement for Rosa – Mark Camphouse
- El Capitan – John Philip Sousa
- Satiric Dances – Norman Delle Joio
- Variations on a Korean Folk Song – John Barnes Chance
- The Fairest of the Fair March – John Philip Sousa
- An Original Suite – Gordon Jacob
- Symphonic Dance No. 3 “Fiesta” – Clifton Williams
- March to the Scaffold – Hector Berlioz, Arr. Leidzen