Accents - STL Wind Symphony

Premieres

Symphonic Suite – Dallas Blair. October 2017
Spark! (unedited version) – Robert Langenfeld. March 2016
An Introduction to End All Introductions – Jared Spears. November 2015
Into the Ages (revised) – Gay Spears. November 2014
Unleashed – Jared Spears. September 2013
Chorale for Concert Band – Joseph Pastor. March 2013
Variations on Aurelia – Dallas Blair. November 2010

Commissions

Concerto for Wind Symphony – Robert Langenfeld. March 2018
Symphony No. 5: Heartland Portraits – Julie Giroux. March 2016
Symphony No. 7: A Symphony for Sam – Andrew Boysen. March 2014

Convention Performances

Missouri Bandmasters Association, Osage Beach – 2019
Missouri Music Educators Association, Osage Beach – 2018
Missouri Music Educators Association, Osage Beach – 2014
Missouri Bandmasters Association, Osage Beach – 2006
American School Band Directors Association, Saint Louis – 2004
Missouri Bandmasters Association, Osage Beach – 2002
Missouri Music Educators Association, Osage Beach – 2001

Langenfeld Commission

As part of the 2017 – 2018 season, the Saint Louis Wind Symphony teamed up with up-and-coming composer Robert Langenfeld to create a Concerto for Wind Ensemble that would feature the entire ensemble. The result was a thrilling and complex mega-work that had its world premiered at our March 18, 2018 concert.

Goldstein Commission

The highlight of our 2013 – 2014 season was the culmination of the Goldstein Commission project. Our March 16, 2014 concert included the world premiere of Andrew Boysen’s Symphony No. 7, Symphony for Sam, and the first annual award of the Sam Goldstein Commission French Horn Scholarship.

Heartland Commission

Our March 2016 concert featured the premiere performance of the second large-scale work commissioned by the Saint Louis Wind Symphony in three years. We are so very pleased that Julie Giroux, a highly respected composer of wind band literature, agreed to write “Symphony No. 5: Heartland Portraits” for us.