Dr. Neal Schnoor
UNK director of Bands, 308.865.88631
Selected high school students who took part in the UNK Honor Band Festival last month will perform with the Wind Ensemble at the University of Nebraska at Kearney in a concert Thursday, Feb. 21, in the UNK Fine Arts Recital Hall.
The concert, which is free and open to the public, will open at 7:30 p.m. under the direction of Dr. Neal Schnoor, UNK director of bands, with Bernstein’s “Overture to Candide.” Other selections on the program include “Gandalf The Wizard” and “Hobbits” from Johan Meij’s “The Lord of the Rings” Symphony 1, “Come Sweet Death” by Bach, and “Vesuvius” by Frank Ticheli.
The ensemble will be joined by the selected high school band students for a patriotic finale of “America, My Country ‘Tis of Thee.”
“We are excited to have these talented young musicians join with the Wind Ensemble for this special opportunity,” Dr. Schnoor said. “The national military bands traditionally provide this opportunity to high school students on their performance tours, and we thought it would be a great tradition to start at UNK.”
The members of the Wind Ensemble are listed below, alphabetically by hometown:
Amherst- Chris Gugel
Ashland- Kimberly Morwitzer
Archer- Jody Neel
Aurora- Ashley Lawton
Bassett- Cameron Scheibe
Beatrice- Troy Ehmke and Zach Klar
Blair- Helen Breuer
Boleus- Emily McIntosh
Comstock- Robert Roth
Franklin- Sarah Cole
Gering- David Kelly
Grand Island- Mackenzie Cochran, Katelyn Rempe
Grant- Brooke Harris
Kearney- Tyler Allen, Eryn McBride, Paul Niedbalski, Paloma Mena-Werth
Kimball- Lisa Childs
Lexington- Arturo Banderas
McCook- Tyler Cobb
North Platte- Michael Conley, Carey Teeters
Omaha- Kelci Fulton, Andrew Jacobitz, Cayle Jones, Matthew Morse, Lauren Ostberg
and Katie Trygg
Phillips- David Ziola
Pickrell- Laura Goracke
Ravenna- Brandon Bohn and Scott Bohn
Scottsbluff- Brooke Brown
York- Caryn Vincent
MICHIGAN-
Southfield- Anthony Ford
JAPAN
Saltama– Megumi Kajigaya
