Joining Maestro Ebersole and WSW are guest conductor Dr. Malcolm Jones, Director of Bands/Professional Lecturer of Music at Marist University, and assistant conductor Jessica Stein-Natale, a member of WSW’s trumpet section and former apprentice conductor. In celebration of clarinetist Steve Cohen returning to the group as the featured guest soloist, the ensemble is pleased to welcome their first Invitational Clarinet Choir to the stage, joined by Cohen and thirty-seven clarinetists from WSW, the West Point Band, and the New York metro area. The concert finale will feature composer Viet Cuong, whose new work commissioned by WSW, The Man and the Echo, will receive its world premiere. 

Program includes:
CRESTON - Celebration Overture, Dr. Malcolm Jones, guest conductor
MARKOWSKI - All My Heart, Jessica Stein-Natale, conductor
NAVARRO - Second Concerto for Clarinet, Steve Cohen, clarinet soloist
CUONG - The Man and the Echo, world premiere

Invitational Clarinet Choir:
SHOSTAKOVICH/BRACKETT - Festive Overture
MASCAGNI/arr.BRACKETT - Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
GERMANOTTA and LAURSEN/arr.GREEN - Born This Way