UW Bands to Present Winter Concert Feb. 23

The University of Wyoming Department of Music’s Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band will present their winter concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts concert hall.

Tickets are $14 for the public, $10 for senior citizens and $8 for students. To purchase tickets, visit the Performing Arts box office, call (307) 766-6666 or go online at www.tix.com/ticket-sales/uwyo/6984. UW faculty and staff members, and military personnel can purchase tickets at a discounted rate. To receive the discount, visit the Performing Arts box office between noon-6 p.m. Monday-Friday or call (307) 766-6666.

Professor Robert Belser will conduct the UW Wind Symphony. Assistant Professor Joseph Carver and Amber Sturdevant, a UW McMurry graduate teaching assistant from Gillette, will conduct the UW Symphonic Band.

The combined concert will feature a program of band classics and favorites of Belser, longtime director of bands. Selections will include “Flourish for Wind Band”; “Sheltering Sky”; “Emperata Overture”; “Candide Overture”; “Apollo Unleashed”; “Irish Tune from County Derry”; “Shepherd’s Hey”; and Holst’s Second Suite in F.

For more information, call Kathy Kirkaldie, UW Fine Arts coordinator, at (307) 766-2160 or email kirisk@uwyo.edu.