Wind Ensemble to Perform Tuesday
The Lee University Wind Ensemble will perform its final concert of the semester on Tuesday, April 12, at 7:30 p.m. The performance, conducted by Dr. David Holsinger and associate conductor Winona Gray Holsinger, will take place in the Conn Center on Lee’s campus.
“The ensemble will feature a wide variety of works either originally written for winds or expertly transcribed to winds and percussion,” said David Holsinger. “This is a tradition we have continued since the ensemble’s first concert in the fall of 1999.”
The ensemble will perform pieces including a march by John Philip Sousa, a funeral march written for the 100th anniversary of Napoleon’s death, a collection of British nautical songs, a piece celebrating children and eggs at the White House, a Cuban-based dance, music for a lion tamer, a tribute by a composer for his mother, and a composition paying homage to Václav Nelhýbel, a composer featured in the ensemble’s February concert.
The Lee University Wind Ensemble is committed to the highest level of performance of instrumental ensemble literature for winds and percussion and performs for special concerts on the Lee campus throughout the year.
David Holsinger joined the School of Music faculty in 1999, where he currently serves as professor of music. In addition to his university teaching, he spends time as a guest clinician, composer, and conductor throughout the United States. He has appeared as a guest composer/conductor at over 60 major universities and colleges and has had the opportunity to guest conduct high school honor bands in 37 states. He has also received numerous major awards, such as a two-time American Bandmaster’s Association Ostwald Award for his compositions and the Phi Beta Mu National Bandmaster of the Year award.
In addition to her role with the Wind Ensemble, Winona Holsinger serves as the director of instrumental projects at Lee.
The concert is free, non-ticketed, and open to everyone. It will also be available via livestream at leeu.live.
For more information, contact Lee’s School of Music at (423) 614-8240 or email [email protected].
