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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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!

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Angels We Have Heard On High Traditional French, lyrics J. Chadwick
Deck The Halls Traditional Welsh, lyrics T. Oliphant
All I Want for Christmas is You M. Carey, W. Afanasieff
Joy To The World Watts/ Mason
And many other 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

We will also be performing "Aegean Festival Overture" by Andreas Makris.

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The Planets Gustav Holst
Aegean Festival Overture Andreas Makris

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!

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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!

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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