Wisconsin Wind Orchestra

Conductor an​d Music Director, Lawrence Dale Harper established the Wisconsin Wind Orchestra (USA) in 1995 as one of the few professional wind ensembles in the world. They regularly perform concerts at venues throughout Wisconsin, have made numerous CD recordings acclaimed by the American Record Guide and the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, and have appeared in concerts and radio broadcasts at the famed Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and the Conservatorio F. Morlacchi in Perugia, Italy. In their European concert tour of 2017 they were featured artists at the Segni Barocchi Festival of Foligno, Italy and appeared in concert for a sold-out audience at the Teatro della Concordia in Montecastello di Vibio. They were also artists-in-residence at the International Music Project's International Conducting Symposium of Umbria, Italy.
The 2023 Tour Concert of The Wisconsin Wind Orchestra is designed to appeal to a wide variety of the concert-going public: young and old, experienced listeners and novices, long-time classical music lovers and as well as newcomers to the genre. Entitled "Play of the Imagination," the program will encourage listeners to engage the imagination through expressive, evocative music and highly descriptive titles. For example, selected movements from Carl Orff's massive Carmina Burana is subtitled: Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments and magical images." London Sketches by Francis Casadesus evokes several scenes of daily life in the British capital, from a visit to Trafalgar Square to children playing in Hyde Park. Jeux d'Enfant by the great French composer, George Bizet, is a delightful set of miniatures that describe quite effectively various energetic children's games. The concert concludes with a moving homage to the American West in the form of a set of variations on the ever-popular cowboy song, "The Streets of Laredo" written by conductor Harper.
Conductor Lawrence Dale Harper established the Wisconsin Wind Orchestra in 1995 as one of the few professional wind ensembles in the world. They regularly perform concerts at venues throughout Wisconsin, have made numerous CD recordings acclaimed by the American Record Guide and the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, and have appeared in concerts and radio broadcasts at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and the Conservatorio F. Morlacchi in Perugia, Italy. In their European concert tour of 2017, they were featured artists at the Segni Barocchi Festival of Foligno, Italy and appeared in concert in front of a sold-out audience at the Teatro della Concordia in Montecastello di Vibio. In 2015 and again in 2017 they were artists-in-residence at the International Music Project's International Conducting Symposium of Umbria, Italy. In 2020 the wind orchestra completed a 10-day tour of southern California, where they also offered community and university clinic sessions for developing musicians.