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Bay Area Summer Music Festival Wind Ensemble The Wind Ensemble is the cornerstone around which the Bay Area Summer Music Festival was formed. Comprised of high school students, college students, area professionals and band directors, the Wind Ensemble performs high quality music from the standard repertoire as well as newly composed works and serves to provide the highest possible quality musical experience for both performers and audiences. It is conducted by Music Director Jeffrey A. Spenner and a guest conductor established in the music field. Tentative 2011 Repertoire: Guest Conductors: - 2009 - Dr. Roby G. George - former Associate Director of Bands, University of Illinois (now Director of Bands, Indiana State University)
- 2010 - Col. Timothy W. Foley - Retired Director, "The President's Own" Marine Band
Past Guest Artists: - 2009 - Dr. David R. Gillingham - Composer and Professor of Composition, Central Michigan University
- 2010 - Catherine McMichael - Composer
Past Repertoire: - Festive Overture - Dmitri Shostakovich
- O Magnum Mysterium - Morten Lauridsen
- Scenes from the Louvre - Norman Dello Joio
- First Suite in E-flat - Gustav Holst
- Foster's America - David R. Gillingham
- Convention of the Cordials - John Philip Sousa
- Dance of the Jesters - Peter Tchaikovsky, Arr. Curnow
- Salvation is Created - Pavel Tchesnokov, Arr. Houseknecht
- Sapphire, for Alto Sax and Band - Catherine McMichael
- Semper Fidelis - John Philip Sousa
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