ATLANTA YOUTH WIND SYMPHONY

The Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony (AYWS) was founded in 1988 as the honor wind ensemble for high school youth in the Atlanta metropolitan area. Its purpose is to provide a positive musical experience in an artistic environment for advanced instrumentalists in wind and percussion performance. The AYWS rehearses and performs grade five and six (collegiate and professional) original wind band literature composed over a wide span of stylistic compositional periods. As an ensemble, it is one of the most visible ambassadors of culture and youth performance for the city of Atlanta and state of Georgia.

NEWS

The Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony has been selected to perform at the Georgia Music Educators Association State In-Conference on Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 4:30 pm at the Savannah Convention Center. Repertoire includes Fanfare for a Celebration (Nelson), The Bliss Copy (Hoffmann), Molly on the Shore (Grainger), When Speaks the Trumpet-Signal Tone (Gillingham) with Mark Clodfelter, trumpet; Turbo Scramjet (Pitts), and Gazebo Dances (Corigliano).

The AYWS welcomes composer Steven Bryant to the Emory campus on Monday, March 15, 2010 at 8:00 pm for a performance of Rise (commissioned by Emory University) his new smash hit, Ecstatic Waters, an electro-acoustic piece for wind ensemble and electronics. Also on the program: Symphony in B-flat (Hindemith), Washington Greys (Grafulla), and Hambone (Larsen).