Wind Symphony

Background image of wind ensemble musicians, inset image of featured horn instrumentalist and conductor

Thursday, October 22, 2026

Wharton Center

7:30 pm

Tickets go on sale to the public beginning August 19

The Wind Symphony presents a program featuring guest conductor Alfred Watkins, retired conductor and leader of the Cobb Wind Symphony in Atlanta, Georgia, alongside MSU faculty artist Johanna Yarbrough, horn. The program includes Armenian Dances by Alfred Reed and Candide Suite (arr. Grundman) by Leonard Bernstein, both highlighting the horn within the ensemble, as well as Circus Polka by Igor Stravinsky, The Pathfinder of Panama by John Philip Sousa, Two Chorale Preludes (arr. Guenther) by Johannes Brahms, and Connection by Óscar Navarro, featuring Yarbrough. Conducted by Kevin L. Sedatole, joined by guest conductors Alfred Watkins, Sandra Snow, and Michael Gabriel.