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| Year | Band | Conductor | Program | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Symphonic Band (virtual) | Col. Lowell Graham | Commando March (Samuel Barber) | Canzona (Peter Mennin) | |||||
| 2021 | Concert Band (virtual) | Scott Reed | Tempered Steel (Charles Rochester Young) | Song for My Children (Andrew Balent, Jr.) | |||||
| 2020 | Symphonic Band | Richard Clary | Freelance March (Sousa/Brion/Schissel) | Poseidon (Julie Giroux) | Elegy (John Barnes Chance) | Until the Scars (John Mackey) | |||
| 2020 | Concert Band | Emily Threinen | Florentiner March (Julius Fucik/ Bourgeois) | One Life Beautiful (Julie Giroux) | Themes from “Green Bushes” (Larry Daehn) | Vulcan for Concert Band (Michael Daugherty) | |||
| 2019 | Symphonic Band | Mark Scatterday | Overture to Candide (Leonard Bernstein, arr. Clare Grundman) | Mars, the Bringer of War (Gustav Holst) | Uranus (Gustav Holst, arr. James Curnow) | Jupiter (Gustav Holst, arr. James Curnow) | Riders for the Flag (John Philip Sousa) | ||
| 2019 | Concert Band | Dan Belongia | His Honor (Henry Fillmore, ed. Jim Daughters) | Magnolia Star (Steve Danyew) | Give Us This Day (David Maslanka) | Aria Di Chiesa (Alessandro Stradella, trans. Thomas Fraschillo) | |||
| 2018 | Symphonic Band | Gary Hill | Danserye (Tielman Susato, arr. Patrick Dunnigan) | This Cruel Moon (John Mackey) | Velocity Festivals (Paul Dooley) | Foshay Tower Washington Memorial March (John Philip Sousa, arr. Daniel Dorff) | |||
| 2018 | Concert Band | David Starnes | Landscapes (Rosanno Galante) | Only Light (Aaron Perrine) | Variations on a Korean Folk Song (John Barnes Chance) | Fantasies on a Theme By Haydn (Norman Dello Joio) | Fairest of the Fair (John Philip Sousa, ed. Frederick Fennell) | ||
| 2017 | Symphonic Band | Paula Crider | Through the Looking Glass (Jess Turner) | Pacem: A Hymn for Peace (Robert Spittal) | Danzón No. 2 (Arturo Marquez/ arr. Oliver Nickel) | Zing! (Scott McAllister) | Italian Rhapsody (Julie Giroux) | ||
| 2017 | Concert Band | Craig Cornish | Esprit de Corps (Robert Jager) | Everything Beautiful (Samuel Hazo) | Variants on a Mediaeval Tune (Norman Dello Joio) | First Suite for Band 4. Galop (Alfred Reed) | |||
| 2016 | Symphonic Band | Alfred Watkins | Fanfare and Flourishes (James Curnow) | Celebrations (John Zdechlik) | Second Essay for Symphonic Band (Mark Camphouse) | Sabre and Spurs March (John Philip Sousa ed. Keith Brion and Loras John Schissel) | Third Symphony, Op. 89 IV. Finale (James Barnes) | ||
| 2016 | Concert Band | Jay Gephart | The Lamb’s March (John Philip Sousa ed. Loras John Schissel | Pageant (Vincent Persichetti) | Wayfaring Stranger (Christopher M. Nelson) | The Music-Makers (Alfred Reed) | Lord Tullamore (Carl Wittrock) | ||
| 2015 | Symphonic Band | Ronnie Wooten | Poema Alpestre (Franco Cesarini) | Luminescence (David Biedenbender) | Marche Brillante (William P. Foster) | ||||
| 2015 | Concert Band | Elizabeth Peterson | Symphony of Fables – I. The Lion and the Mouse, II. The Tortoise and the Hare (Julie Giroux) | Rest (Frank Ticheli) | America the Beautiful (Samuel A. Ward arr. Philip Rothman) | Strange Humors (John Mackey) | |||
| 2014 | Symphonic Band | Tim Salzman | Australian Fantasia (mvt. I) (David Stanhope) | Three Vespers from the All Night Vigil (mvts. 1 and 3) (Sergei Rachmaninov/T. Salzman) | Gloriosa (Yasuhide Ito) | ||||
| 2014 | Concert Band | David Waybright | Glory of the Yankee Navy (Sousa/Schissel) | Carnival (Paul Basler) | A Song for Lyndsay (Andrew Boysen) | Aurora Awakes (John Mackey) | Folk Dances (Dmitri Schostakovich (edited H. Robert Reynolds) | ||
| 2013 | Symphonic Band | Kevin Sedatole | Overture to Candide (Leonard Bernstein) | Hymn to a Blue Hour (John Mackey) | Give Us This Day (David Masalanka) | ||||
| 2013 | Concert Band | Cynthia Johnston Turner | San Antonio Dances (Frank Ticheli) | Der Traum sed Oenghus, Teil 1 (Rolf Rudin) | Requiem for a Hummingbird (Marc Mellits) | Dance 1 from Jazz Suite No. 2 (Dmitri Shostakovitch) | |||
| 2012 | Symphonic Band | W. Dale Warren | Ignition (Todd Staller) | Kentucky Home (David Gillingham) | American Flute Salute (David Mairs) | Olav Trygvason, Op. 50, Scene III (Edvard Grieg) | |||
| 2012 | Concert Band | Scott Weiss | Lord Tullamore (Carl Wittrock) | Komm, Susser Tod (Johann Sebastian Bach) | Three Dance Settings (Percy Grainger) | Whip and Spur Gallop (Thomas S. Allen) | |||
| 2011 | Symphonic Band | James Keene | Cityscape (Scot Boerma) | English Dances, Set II (Malcolm Arnold, ed. James F. Keene) | Invincible Eagle (John Philip Sousa, ed. James F. Keene) | Shostakovich Prelude (Dmitri Shostaovich, ed. James F. Keene) | Marche Slave (Peter Illych Tchaikovsky, arr. L. P. Laurendeau) | ||
| 2011 | Concert Band | Rodney Dorsey | Flourish for Wind Band (Ralph Vaughn Williams) | Divertimento for Band, Op. 42 (Vincent Persichetti) | No Shadow of Turning (David R. Gillingham) | Galop (Dmitri Shostaovich, trans. Donald Hunsberger) | |||
| 2010 | Symphonic Band | Stephen Pratt | Symphonic Fanfare (Mark Camphouse) | Land of Tomorrow (James Curnow) KMEA Comm. Work | The Promise of Living (Aaron Copland arr. Kenneth Singleton) | Fiesta del Pacifico (Roger Nixon) | |||
| 2010 | Concert Band | Roby George | Wild Nights (Frank Ticheli) | Contre Qui, Rose (Morten Lauridsen arr. H. Robert Reynolds) | Suite of Old American Dances: I. Cake Walk, II. Schottische, III. Western One-Step, IV. Wallflower Waltz, V. Rag (Robert Russell Bennett | ||||
| 2009 | Symphonic Band | Stephen Peterson | Symphony No. 2 for Concert Band, III. Apollo Unleashed (Frank Ticheli) | Variations on “America” (Charles Ives trans. W. E. Rhoads) | O Magnum Mysterium (Morten Lauridsen trans. H. Robert Reynolds) | Four Scottish Dances, Op. 59 (Malcolm Arnold arr. John P. Paynter) | |||
| 2009 | Concert Band | Samuel Hazo | Go! (Samuel R. Hazo) | Sure On This Shining Night (Samuel Barber arr. Richard L. Saucedo) | Symphonie Funebre et Triumphale III. Apotheosis (Hector Berlioz arr. Richard Franko Goldman) | English Fold Song Suite I. Seventeen Come Sunday (Ralph Vaughn Williams) | Fantasy On A Japanese Folk Song (Samuel R. Hazo) | Arabesque (Samuel R. Hazo) | |
| 2008 | Symphonic Band | Linda Moorhouse | Occident et Orient Grand Marche, Op. 25 (Camille Saint-Saens) | October (Eric Whitacre) | La Mezquita de Cordoba (Julie Giroux) | from Hassenah (The Wedding) Wedding Dance (Jaques Press) | Sabre and Spurs (John P. Sousa) | ||
| 2008 | Concert Band | J. Steven Moore | Esprit d’Corps (Robert Jager) | Southern Harmony (Donald Grantham) | Testament (David Maslanka) | Radiant Joy (Steven Bryant) | Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral (Richard Wagner) | Appalachian Morning (Robert Sheldon) | |
| 2007 | Symphonic Band | Lowell E. Graham | Toccata Fantastica (James Barnes) | Symphonic Dance #2 (Clifton Williams) | Symphonic Movement (Vaclav Nelhybel) | Onward, Upward (Edwin Franco Goldman) | A Danish Garden; 1. Bispens Datter Af Engeland, 2. Per Svinedreng, 3. Jerusalems Skomager, 4. Kaerlighedsvise (Utroskab I Kaerlighed), 5. Herr Peders Staldedreng (Ira Hearshen) | ||
| 2007 | Concert Band | Patrick Dunnigan | October (Dmitry Shostakovich) | Ride (Sam Hazo) | Selections from The Danserye (Tielman Susato/Patrick Dunnigan) | Ballad for Band (Morton Gould) | Elegy for a Young American (Ronald Lo Presti) | Symphony No. 2, Third Movement (Apollo Unleashed) – (Frank Ticheli) | |
| 2006 | Symphonic Band | Ray Cramer | Viva Musica (Alfred Reed) | Fantasy on a Japanese Folksong (Sam Hazo) | Empire (Julie Giroux) | Symphony #3 Mvt. III/Mvt. IV (James Barnes) | Whip and Spur (Thomas Allen) | ||
| 2006 | Concert Band | Paula Crider | Fanfare of Wakakusa Hill (Haru Satai) | Their Blossoms Down (Sam Hazo) | Ferris Wheel (Jason Nitsch) | Culloden Mvt. III (Julie Giroux) | The Washington Post March (John P. Sousa) | ||
| 2005 | Symphonic Band | John Whitwell | Star Spangled Banner (John Stafford Smith) | In Memoriam (Mark Camphouse) | Salvation is Created (Tschesnokoff) | Enigma Variations (Edward Elgar) | La Fiesta Mexicana (H. Owen Reed) | Fanfare Canzionique (Brian Balmages) | |
| 2005 | Concert Band | John Culvahouse | Arrival Platform Humlet (Percy Aldridge Grainger) | Foshay Tower Washingon Memorial (John Phillip Sousa) | Noisy Wheels of Joy (Eric Whitacre) | La Procession Du Rocio (Jocquin Turina) | |||
| 2004 | Symphonic Band | Dario Sotelo | Credentium (Jan Van der Roost) | Retratos do Brasil (Hudson Nogueira) | Variations On A Theme Of Robert Schumann (Robert Jager) | ||||
| 2004 | Concert Band | Angela Woo | Marche Militaire Francaise (C. Saint-Saens) | Folk Dances (Dmitri Shostakovich) | Flourish For Wind Ban (R. Vaughan Williams) | October (Eric Whitacre) | Symphony No. 1, “The Lord of the Rings” (Johan de Meij) | ||
| 2003 | Symphonic Band | Jerry F. Junkin | Machine (William Bolcom) | Carmina Burana (Carl Orff) | The Glory of the Yankee Navy (John Phillip Sousa) | ||||
| 2003 | Concert Band | H. Dwight Satterwhite | Colours (Roger Cichy) | The Gridiron Club March (John Phillip Sousa) | Peter Schmoll Overture (C.M. Von Weber) | Colonial Song (Percy Aldridge Grainger) | Mannin Veen (Haydn Wood) | Espirit De Corps (Robert Jager) | |
| 2002 | Symphonic Band | Thomas Lee | March Heroique (Camille Saint-Seans arr. Frank Winterbottom) | Chorale and Alleluia (Howard Hanson) | When Jesus Wept (William Schuman) | Chester (William Schuman) | English Dances, Sett II (Malcom Arnold arr. Nigel Herbert) | Slava (Leonard Bernstein) | America, The Beautiful (Samuel Ward arr. Carmen Dragon) |
| 2002 | Concert Band | Richard Blatti | Kirkpatrick Fanfare (Andrew Boysen) | An American Elegy (Frank Ticheli) | Tempered Steel (Charles Rochester Young) | The Footlifter (Henry Fillmore/Ed. Blatti) | |||
| 2001 | Symphonic Band | Mallory Thompson | Festive Overture (Dmitri Shostakovich) emieth – Wilson) | Nimrod (Edward Elgar) | Laude (Howard Hanson) | Marche from Symphonic Metamorphosis (Paul Hindemith) | |||
| 2001 | Concert Band | Rick Greenwood | Symphonic Movement (Vaclav Nelhybel) | The Thunderer (John Philip Sousa) | Symphony on Themes of John Philip Sousa (Ira Hearshen) | Color (Bob Margolis) | Polka and Fugue from the opera Schwanda, the Bagpiper (Jaromir Weinberger) | Symphonic Movement (Vaclav Nelhybel) | |
| 2000 | Symphonic Band | Richard Floyd | Whatsover Things (Mark Camphouse) | Children’s march (Percy Grainger) | Vesuvius (Frank Ticheli) | Dance of the Jesters (P. Tschaikovsky/Cramer) | Pacific Celebration Suite (Roger Nixon | Suite Divertimento (Jay Gilbert) | |
| 2000 | Concert Band | Stephen Melillo | The Knight is Young (Stephen Melillo) | Star! The national Anthem of the United States of America (Stephen Melillo) | Olympus: Four Mythological Legends (Aldo Forte) | Manhattan Beach March (Sousa edited Brion-Schissel) | Escape From Plato’s Cave (Stephen Melillo) | ||
| 1999 | Symphonic Band | David Holsinger | Whip and Spur Galop (Thomas Allen arr. Ray Cramer) | Adagio (David R. Holsinger) | Canzona (Peter Mennin) | Athletic Festival march, Op. 69, No. 1 (Serge Prokofieff) | Consider the Uncommon Man (David Holsinger) | To Tame The Perilous Skies (David R. Holsinger) | |
| 1999 | Concert Band | Anthony Maiello | Festival Fanfare: A Great Gathering of Musicians (Jerry Brubaker) | The Acension (Robert W. Smith) | The Inferno (Robert W. Smith) | Paradiso (Robert W. Smith) | Purgatorio (Robert W. Smith) | ||
| 1998 | Symphonic Band | Jay Kloecker | |||||||
| 1998 | Concert Band | Stephen Pratt | |||||||
| 1997 | Symphonic Band | Eugene Corporon | |||||||
| 1997 | Concert Band | W. Dale Warren | |||||||
| 1996 | Symphonic Band | Lowell E. Graham | La Forza Del Destino (Guiseppe Verdi arr. Matthew Lake) | Aces of the Air (Karl L. King) | T-Bone Concerto I. Rare (Johan de Meij) | Symphony on Thems of John Philip Sousa II. Largamente; after The Thunderer (Ira Hearshen) | To Tame the Perilous Skies (David Holsinger) | ||
| 1996 | Concert Band | Gary Hill | Fanfares from the Opera Libuse (Bedrich Smetana arr. Baclav Nelhybel) | Symphony #1: In Memoriam Dresden-1945 (Daniel Bukvitch) | Forshay Tower Washington Memorial March (Sousa arr. Daniel Dorff) | Irish Tune From County Derry and Shepherd’s Hey (Percy Aldridge Grainger) | Variations on America (Charles Ives Transcribed by William E. Rhoads) | ||
| 1995 | Symphonic Band | James Copenhaver | Eternal Father Strong To Save (Claude T. Smith) | Peterloo Overture (Malcom Arnold transcriped by Charles Sayre) | The Sound of Music (Richard Rogers arr. Michael Buckley) | Finale from Symphony No. 1 in G minor (V.S. Kalinnikov Transcribed by Cliffe Bainum) | George Washington Bicentennial (Sousa) | ||
| 1995 | Concert Band | Gary Lewis | Gavorkna Fanfare (Jack Stamp) | Chester (William Schumann) | Amazing Grace (Frank Ticheli) | Dinosaurs (Daniel Bukvich) | Folk Dances (Dmitri Schostakovich (edited H. Robert Reynolds) | The Crosley March (Henry Fillmore) | |
| 1994 | Symphonic Band | Gerald Welker | |||||||
| 1994 | Concert Band | Judith Grimes | |||||||
| 1993 | Symphonic Band | David Holsinger | Whip and Spur Galop (Thomas Allen arr. Ray Cramer) | Gavorkna Fanfare (Jack Stamp) | Chorale (Vaclav Nelhybel) | Daydreams (Timothy Mahr) | Ballet Sacra (David Holsinger) | ||
| 1993 | Concert Band | Gary Green | Midway March (John Williams arr. James Curnow) | Two Chorale Preludes (Johannes Brahms arr. Ralph Guenther) | Crystals (Thomas C. Duffy) | Hounds of Spring (Alfred Reed) | |||
| 1992 | Symphonic Band | Jack Williamson | Barnum and Bailey’s Favorite (Karl L. King arr. Glenn C. Bainum) | Trauersinfonie (Richard Wagner arr. Erik Leidzen) | Overture on Russian and Kirghiz Folks Songs (Dimitri Shostakovich arr. Guy M. Duker) | Divertimento For Band , Op. 42 (Vincent Persichetti) | Symphony For Band (Morton Gould) | ||
| 1992 | Concert Band | Paula Crider | Washington Post March (Sousa) | First Suite For Band IV Gallop Alfred Reed) | Italian Polka (Sergei Rachmaninoff arr. Erik Leidzen) | Symphony No. 1 For Winds and Percussion (Daniel Bukvich) | Festivo (Edward Gregson) | Kanon (Johann Pachelbel) | |
| 1991 | Symphonic Band | Ray Cramer | Koenigsmarch (Richard Strauss arr. R. Barrett) | Russian and Ludmilla (Michael Glinka arr. Mark H. Hindsley) | Lord of the Rings (Johan de Meij) | Jupiter (Gustav Haolst arr. James Curnow) | Whip and Spur (Thomas Allen arr. Ray E. Cramer) | ||
| 1991 | Concert Band | John Whitwell | His Honor (Henry Fillmore) | Who Puts His Trust in God Most Just | Johann Sebastian Bach arr. James Croft) | Pineapple Roll (Arthur Sullivan arr. Charles Mackerras) | Scenes from the Louvre (Norman Dello Joio) | Folk Dances (Dimitri Shostakovich arr. H. Robert Reynolds) | |
| 1990 | Symphonic Band | James Arrowood | Spitfire Perlude (William Walton) | Variants on a Mediaeval Tune (Norman Dello Joio) | Night vigil (Martin mailman) | Handel in the Strand (Percy Grainger arr. Richard Franko Goldman) | |||
| 1990 | Concert Band | Patricia Brumbaugh | Galop (Dmitri Schostakovich) | Sussex Mummers Christmas Carol (Percy Grainger Edited Richard Franko Goldman | Suite Francaise (Darius Milhaud) | Epinicion (John Paulson) | Symphonic Dance No. 3, “Fiesta” (Clifton Williams) | ||
| 1989 | Symphonic Band | Larry Rachleff | Chester Overture (William Schuman) | Salvation is Created (Tschesnokoff arr. Houseknecht) | Emblems (Aaron Copland) | ||||
| 1989 | Concert Band | Jerry F. Junkin | Washington Post March (Sousa ed. Fennell) | Three Pieces For Band (Phillip Rhodes) | Lincolnshire Posey (Percy Grainger) | Elsa’s Procession to the Catherdral (Wagner trans. Cailliet) | |||
| 1988 | Symphonic Band | Harry Begian | The Dam Busters (E. Coates) | Liebestod, from “Tristan and Isolde” | Overtue, “The Beautiful Galatea” (Suppe/arr. Lake) | Armenian Dances, Part I (Alfred Reed) | Marche Slave (Peter Illych Tchaikovsky, arr. L. P. Laurendeau) | The Free Lance (Sousa) | |
| 1988 | Concert Band | Victor Zajec | Overture, La Forza del Destino (Verdi/arr. Lake | Allerseelen (Tone Poem) (Strauss/arr. David) | Rolling Thunder (Fillmore/ ed. Fennell) | Beowoulf (McBeth) | Broadway Show Stoppers (Barker) | ||
| 1987 | Symphonic Band | Gerald Welker | Esprit d’Corps (Robert Jager) | Prelude, Op. 9, No. 1 (Alexander Scriabin) | St. Michael Archangel (Ottorino Respighi transcribed by Gelrald Welker) | British Eighth (Zo Elliott arr. Hilmar F. Luckhardt) | The Wind and the Lion (Jerry Godsmith arr. Michael Davis) | ||
| 1987 | Concert Band | Larry Rachleff | Irish Tune from County Derry (Percy Grainger) | Variation on a Korean Folk Song (John Barnes Chance) | Apollo (John Pennington) | American’s We (Henry Fillmore arr. Fennell) | |||
| 1986 | Symphonic Band | James Croft | |||||||
| 1986 | Concert Band | Karol Husa | |||||||
| 1985 | Symphonic Band | Eugene Corporon | |||||||
| 1985 | Concert Band | Richard Suddendorf | |||||||
| 1984 | Symphonic Band | Ray Cramer | |||||||
| 1984 | Concert Band | Robert Foster | |||||||
| 1983 | Symphonic Band | James Copenhaver | |||||||
| 1983 | Concert Band | Frank Wickes | |||||||
| 1983 | Concert Band | Frank Wickes | |||||||
| 1982 | All-State Band | Col. Dave Harpham | |||||||
| 1981 | Symphonic Band | W. Francis McBeth | |||||||
| 1981 | Concert Band | Carl St. Clair | |||||||
| 1980 | Symphonic Band | James Croft | |||||||
| 1980 | Concert Band | Allen Gillespie | |||||||
| 1979 | Symphonic Band | Tom Lee | |||||||
| 1979 | Concert Band | Richard Floyd | |||||||
| 1978 | All-State Band | Col. Arnald Gabriel | |||||||
| 1977 | All-State Band | Dr. L. Howard Nicar | |||||||
| 1976 | All-State Band | Frank Wickes | |||||||
| 1975 | All-State Band | William J. Moody | |||||||
| 1974 | All-State Band | John Paynter | |||||||
| 1973 | All-State Band | Leonard Falcone | |||||||
| 1972 | All-State Band | Col. Arnald Gabriel | |||||||
| 1971 | All-State Band | Donald Hunsberger | |||||||
| 1970 | All-State Band | Leonard B. Smith | |||||||
| 1969 | All-State Band | Jimmie Reynolds | |||||||
| 1968 | All-State Band | William J. Moody | |||||||
| 1967 | All-State Band | Dr. James Riley | |||||||
| 1966 | All-State Band | James T. Matthews | |||||||
| 1965 | All-State Band | Frank Piersol | |||||||
| 1964 | Symphonic Band | Glenn Cliff Bainum | |||||||
| 1964 | Concert Band | Manley Whitcomb | |||||||
| 1963 | All-State Band | James T. Matthews | |||||||
| 1962 | All-State Band | Frederick Fennell | |||||||
| 1961 | All-State Band | Herbert Fred | |||||||
| 1960 | All-State Band | George Wilson | |||||||
| 1959 | All-State Band | Glenn Cliff Bainum | |||||||
| 1958 | All-State Band | Bernard Fitzgerald | |||||||
| 1957 | All-State Band | Forrest Buchtel | |||||||
| 1956 | All-State Band | Erik Leidzen | |||||||
| 1955 | All-State Band | Dr. Harvey Wilson | |||||||
| 1954 | All-State Band | David Hughes | |||||||
| 1953 | All-State Band | Franklin C. Kreider | |||||||
| 1952 | All-State Band | Frederick Fennell | |||||||
| 1951 | All-State Band | Howard Brown | |||||||
| 1950 | All-State Band | Carleton Stewart |