Ann Arbor Concert Band

Concert Season 2025-2026

Tickets can be purchased here: https://michtheater.org/events or at the Michigan Theater Box Office on Concert Sunday.

Concert programs subject to change.

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The Americas

🗓️ Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
📍 Michigan Theater

Featuring music of the Americas, from the Tierra del Fuego all the way to the Canadian Arctic. For a YouTube playlist spotlighting other fine performances of these pieces, click here.

Bayou Breakdown Brant Karrick

Matt Kazmierski, A2CB Asst. Conductor

Carnaval Julie Giroux
Entre Amigos Rubén Darío Gómez
Libertadores Oscar Navarro
San Antonio Dances Frank Ticheli
Sonoran Desert Holiday Ron Nelson
Swiftriver Passage Paul Suchan
29 Bells Willard Zirk

A Tribute to the Edmund Fitzgerald

Aegean Festival Overture Andreas Makris

An A2CB Holiday Celebration

🗓️ Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
📍 Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ann Arbor

Join the A2CB for a program of holiday favorites!

The Planets

🗓️ Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 2:00 PM
📍 Michigan Theater

The Ann Arbor Concert Band is proud to present a complete performance of Gustav Holst's The Planets!

  • Mars: The Bringer of War
  • Venus: The Bringer of Peace
  • Mercury: The Winged Messenger
  • Jupiter: The Bringer of Jollity
  • Saturn: The Bringer of Old Age
  • Uranus: The Magician
  • Neptune: The Mystic

Spectrum of Sound (Shattering Glass Series #3)

🗓️ Sunday, March 15, 2026 at 2:00 PM
📍 Michigan Theater

The Ann Arbor Concert Band began its “Shattering Glass Series” in March 2024 with a concert celebrating “Women in Winds. We followed this in Mach 2025 with “Colors of the Winds”. Each respective concert highlighting significant contributions of women and persons of color - composers and conductors - to concert band and wind ensemble repertoire. We continue our “Shattering Glass Series” with “The Spectrum of Sound” celebrating significant contributions of LGBTQ+ composers and conductors. Join us for this groundbreaking and inspirational afternoon of music!

Rise Rosanno Galante
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story Leonard Bernstein
A Symphony of Fables Julie Giroux
Animation: Episode 1 - Wabbit Randall Standbridge
Pathways Danielle Fischer
Danza Cubanas Robert Sheldon
Sailing with Whales Rosanno Galante
Dancing Fire Kevin Day

Our Favorites 2.0

🗓️ Saturday, May 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM
📍 Michigan Theater

Featuring wind band favorites selected by our members, as well as the winner of our Young Artist Competition. Note: our final concert of the season will be on SATURDAY, May 9th!

Festive Overture Dmitri Shostakovich
Canzona Peter Mennin
An Original Suite: Movement 1, March Gordon Jacobs
Lincolnshire Posy Percy Grainger
Symphony in B-flat (Movement 1) Paul Hindemith
Festivo Edward Gregson
Pageant Vincent Persichetti

Matt Kazmierski, A2CB Asst. Conductor

Suite of Old American Dances Robert Russell Bennett
Concerto TBD

2026 Andrew J. Lum & David R. Juillet Young Artist Scholarship Competition Winner