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Music Audition Workshop

Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024

  • 2:00-4:00 PM
  • An event which helps high school
    and community college transfer
    students prepare for college
    music auditions.

Sign Up Here

  • nominations open Oct 15, ‘24

WinterFest Honor Band

Dec. 4th and 5th

  • 6:30-9:30 PM

A two-day honor band experience open to high school musicians by nomination from their band directors.


Hosted and presented by WP bands with a culminating side-by-side concert with the WP Chamber Winds on Thursday, Dec. 5th @ 7:30 PM.


  • Schedule and nominations open October 15,th 2024.

WP Band Day

Wednesday, March 5th, 2025

  • 8:00 AM-6:00 PM
  • You are invited to our annual Band Day
    Clinic. Ensembles will perform in WP's
    Shea Auditorium, receive recorded
    feedback from one of our esteemed
    clinicians, and participate in an
    interactive clinic session with a
    clinician and members of the WP
    Chamber Winds. Band Day also
    includes performances by WP's Wind
    Symphony and Chamber Winds
    ensembles.

Brass & Woodwind Day

Sunday, October 6th 2024

  • 10:00 AM-4:00 PM

A day of masterclasses, rehearsals and
a culminating recital, designed for 9th-
12th grade woodwind and brass
players, of all playing levels.

Middle school students are also
welcome to attend.

  • Presented by WP's Woodwind & Brass
    faculty: Teresa Purcell-Giles (flute),
    Sarah Davol (oboe/guest), Andrea Herr
    (bassoon), guest clinician Jeff Bittner
    (clarinet), James Noyes (saxophone),
    Mike Baker (trumpet), Lisa Pike (horn),
    Gary Capetandes (trombone), Matt
    Paterno (Euphoniium) and Paul Scott
    (tuba).

Workshops & Clinics

WP CHAMBER WINDS PRESENTS

Sensory Friendly
Concert Series

School Day Concert

Friday, March 7th 2025

  • 10:30 AM
  • Your students are invited to join us at
    Shea Auditorium on the campus of
    William Paterson University for a
    musical story time featuring Sergei
    Prokofiev’s timeless tale, “Peter and
    the Wolf” and a musical adaptation of
    “Aesop’s Fables.” This Musical Story
    Time is a visual and musical
    experience with projected images and
    animated video, which also introduces
    students to the instruments of the
    band!

WP BANDS CONCERTS & Performances

WP Prep Band and
Chamber Winds

In Concert

Thursday, December 5 2024

Shea Auditorium

  • 7:30 PM

A concert featuring the WP Prep Band
and Chamber Winds performing new
and emerging repertoire, as well as
standard band literature. The concert
features Conductor-in-Residence,
Aakash Mittal.

  • Admission is free and open to the
    public.
  • Admission is free and open to the public

The wp Chamber Winds Present

“Fanfare, Elegy &
Monument”

Thursday, October 10 2024

Shea Auditorium

  • 7:30 PM

A concert featuring the music of Paul
Dukas, Ronald Lo Presti and David
Maslanka; with a world premier of
“Concerto for Percussion Section and
Wind Ensemble” by WP’s own Payton
MacDonald.

Admission is free and open to the
public



  • Admission is free and open to the public

Wind Symphony and Chamber Winds

In Concert

Thursday, April 24, 2025

Shea Auditorium

  • 7:30 PM

A concert featuring the WP Wind
Symphony and Chamber Winds
performing new and emerging
repertoire, as well as standard band
literature.

  • Admission is free and open to the
    public.
  • Admission is free and open to the public

WP CHAMBER WINDS PRESENTS

Sensory Friendly
Concert Series

Community Concert

Saturday, March 8th 2025

  • 3:00 PM

Families and people of all ages will
enjoy this unique concert experience
featuring Sergei Prokofiev’s timeless
musical tale, “Peter and the Wolf” and
a musical adaptation of “Aesop’s
Fables.” This Musical Story Time is a
visual and musical experience with
projected images and animated video,
which also introduces students to the
instruments of the band!


ConNECT WITH Us

Director of Bands

Dr. Teresa Purcell-Giles

PURCELLGILEST@WPUNJ.EDU

Shea 171 (office)

(973) 720-3935

Mailing Address

300 Pompton Rd.

Wayne, NJ 07470

Music Admissions

Skyler Hagner, Coordinator

musicadmissions@ wpunj.edu

Shea 135 (Office)

(973) 720-3466