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Mar 8 2025
Windfest Concert Band Festival 2025

A REGIONAL AFFILIATE OF THE MUSIC FOR ALL NATIONAL FESTIVAL

Windfest is Kentucky’s premier concert band festival in conjunction with Music for All. Windfest gives middle and high school bands the opportunity to perform for and receive feedback from clinicians from band programs of high merit around the country. This year’s festival will take place on March 8, 2025.

Each performing ensemble will receive:

A performance…
Singletary Center
Free Admission for Visitors, $250 per Middle School Ensemble, $350 per High School Ensemble
Sat, Mar 8 2025, 3:30 - 5:30pm
UK Wind Symphony Concert
Spanish Dances (Book 1) – Luis Serrano Alarcon (Cody Birdwell, Conductor)First Suite in E-flat for Military Band – Gustav Holst (Timothy Reynish, Conductor)Third Symphony “Jalupe” – Luis Serrano Alarcon (Luis Serrano Alarcon, Conductor)
Singletary Concert Hall
$14 Adults / $7 Students (additional fees may apply online)
Tue, Apr 8 2025, 7:30pm
UK Saxophone Ensemble Concert
Singletary Recital Hall
Free
Sun, Apr 13 2025, 7:30pm
UK Jazz Combos
Singletary Recital Hall
Free
Sat, Apr 19 2025, 12 - 1pm
New Horizons Spring Concert
Singletary Recital Hall
Free
Sun, Apr 27 2025, 3 - 5pm
UK Wind Symphony Concert

Dr. John Cody Birdwell, Conductor

Dr. ToniMarie Marchioni, Oboe

Singletary Concert Hall
$14 Adults / $7 Students (additional fees may apply online)
Wed, Jun 4 - Fri, Jun 6 2025, All day
Conducting Symposium '25

The UK Conducting Symposium is designed for instrumental conductors and music educators of all experience levels. Conducting participants will receive quality podium time conducting outstanding literature in front of a live ensemble while receiving immediate/interactive feedback from the featured clinician. Each conducting participant will also receive a detailed critique and evaluation from the host clinician immediately following each…

UK Campus
Registration Required