2025 - 2026 Frost Bands Season

Current Season

Fall 2025

Frost Wind Ensemble “Metamorphosis”

Sunday, September 7, 2025. 4:00 p.m.

Lindsay Kesselman, guest soloist

 

Bravado, Gala Flagello

Press On, Jessica Meyer

Darkening, then Brightening, Christopher Cerrone (feat. Lindsay Kesselman, soprano)

Goodnight Moon, Eric Whitacre (feat. Lindsay Kesselman, soprano)

Prelude and Fugato from Mama Dee's Notebook, Joel Puckett

Traveler, David Maslanka

 

Frost Symphonic Winds “Cities”

Sunday, September 21, 2025. 4:00 p.m.

 

Urban Light, James M. David

Jerusalem, Hurbert Parry, arr. Giroux

Machu Picchu, Satoshi Yagisawa

Scenes from the Louvre, Norman dello Joio

Joyce's 71st NY Reg't March, T. R. Boyer, arr. Lake

 

Frost Wind Ensemble “Excursions”

Sunday, October 5, 2025. 4:00 p.m.

 

 Khaen, Viskamol Chaiwaninchsiri

Colonial Song, Percy Grainger 

Cenizas, Gilda Lyons

Winds of Nagual, Michael Colgrass

 

Frost Symphonic Winds “Heroes and Villians”

Sunday, October 19, 2025. 4:00 p.m.

 

Little Threepenny Music, Kurt Weill

March of the Belgian Parachutists, Pierre Leemans, arr. Bourgeois

And With This New Day, William Owens *Consortium Premiere*

Beowulf, W. Francis McBeth

 

Frost Wind Ensemble “Manifestos”

Sunday, November 2, 2025. 4:00 p.m.

Alyssa Mena, guest soloist

 

Manifestos, Paul Dooley

Concerto No. 1 for Flute and Orchestra, Lowell Liebermann (feat. concerto competition winner Alyssa Mena)

Ballade, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Poeme Du Feu, Ida Gotkowski

 

Frost Symphonic Winds “Departures”

Sunday, November 16, 2025. 4:00 p.m.

 

Noisy Wheels of Joy, Eric Whitacre

March!, Jennifer Jolley

Candide Suite, Leonard Bernstein, arr. Grundman

Splinter, Holly Harrison

Chester, William Schuman

Spring 2026

Frost Wind Ensemble “43rd Annual Frost Honor Band Concert”

Saturday, January 24, 2026. 5:30 p.m.

 

*More information to be announced*

 

Frost Symphonic Winds “Trysts”

Sunday, February 8, 2026. 4:00 p.m.

Dale Underwood, guest soloist

 

March and Cortege of Bacchus, Leo Delibes, arr. Kreines

Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral, Richard Wagner, trans. Calliet

A Jerome Kern Songbook, arr. Ralph Martino (feat. Dale Underwood, saxophone)

Suite from the Ballet "Romeo and Juliet," Sergei Prokofiev, arr. de Meij

 

Frost Wind Ensemble “Evening of Chamber Music”

Saturday, February 21, 2026. 7:30 p.m.

 

*More information to be announced*

 

Inaugural Frost Conducting Workshop

March 6-8, 2026

Michael Hancock, Director of Bands

Gary Green, guest clinician

*More information to be announced*

  

Frost Symphonic Winds “Changing Winds”

Sunday, March 29, 2024. 4:00 p.m.

 

Sinfonietta No. 3, Etienne Crausaz

WORK UNTITLED, Willie Cornish Jr. *World Premiere*

Petite Suite, Claude Debussy, arr. Keiser

Vox Populi, Richard Danielpour, arr. Stamp

Symphony on Themes of John Philip Sousa: Mvmts II & III, Ira Hearshen

 

Frost Wind Ensemble "New Directions"

Saturday, April 11, 2026. 4:00 p.m.

Matthew Cochran, guest soloist

Hila Plitmann, guest soloist

Sean Hickey, composer

Donald Grantham, composer

 

Millennium Canons, Kevin Puts, arr. Spede

Winter Morning Walks, Maria Schneider, trans. Keiser - WORLD PREMIERE of Wind Transcription (feat. Lindsay Kesselman, Soprano)

To Be Announced

WORK UNTITLED, Donald Grantham (feat. Hila Plitmann, soprano)

 

Frost Symphonic Winds “Grow”

Sunday, April 26, 2025. 4:00 p.m.

Obertura BandidaGuido López-Gavilán

Deciduous, Viet Cuong

Overture from "Dancer in the Dark," Bjork, arr. Dorn

Second Suite, Gustav Holst

Danza Final from "Estancia," Alberto Ginastera, trans. John

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