Iowa State University Wind Ensemble on Tour

The ISU Wind Ensemble features sixty-six of the finest student wind and percussion players on the Iowa State University campus. The Wind Ensemble regularly commissions new works and often features renowned guest conductors, composers, and soloists including Craig Hallatt, Simon Estes, Timothy Reynish, John Corigliano, the Boston Brass, Frank Ticheli, Ray Cramer, the Dallas Brass, Lance LaDuke, John Philip Sousa IV, Johann de Meij, Julie Giroux, Leigh Howard Stevens, and Patrick Sheridan.

Under the direction of Michael Golemo since 1999, the Wind Ensemble has performed in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis’ Orchestra Hall, and Omaha’s Holland Center for the Performing Arts. There are over 700 students enrolled in the band program at Iowa State, which includes four concert bands, two jazz ensembles, and five athletic bands including the “Cyclone” Marching Band. This is the ninth trip to Europe by the Wind Ensemble since 2003.

Iowa State University, located in Ames, Iowa, is one of the nation’s leading land-grant universities. Chartered in 1858 as the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, it became the nation’s first land-grant institution when the Iowa General Assembly awarded it the state’s land-grant charter in 1864. The college opened in 1868 and was renamed Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in 1898 and became Iowa State University of Science and Technology in 1959.

Today, Iowa State University is a comprehensive, research university of international stature with nearly 31,000 students from all 50 states and 114 other nations. Iowa State has led the development of several fields of study that are central to the land-grant movement, including engineering, agriculture, family and consumer sciences, and veterinary medicine.

Iowa State is a recognized leader in many areas including plant and animal genomics, materials sciences, analytical chemistry, biology, physics, behavioral studies, information assurance, virtual reality, engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, business, journalism, kinesiology, transportation and logistics and education. Major research initiatives focus on the bioeconomy, food safety and security, combinatorial chemistry, human/computer interaction and animal health.

George Washington Carver, one of the nation’s most distinguished educators and agricultural researchers, received bachelor’s (1894) and master’s (1896) degrees from Iowa State. The electronic digital computer, one of the most important technological innovations of the 20th century, was invented at Iowa State in the late 1930s by John Vincent Atanasoff.

Iowa State’s mission is that we will create, share, and apply knowledge to improve the world, Iowa, and its students.