Concert Season 2020-21
Various venues
Due to COVID-19, all concert events for our 75th season will be announced at a later date.
Providing mid-Michigan with top-quality symphonic band musical entertainment.
Congratulations to Karl Rueterbusch, who was selected as the 2020 Bloomquist Prize winner. Karl is a 16-year-old marimbist from Frankenmuth. He currently performs with the Detroit Symphony Youth Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble and the Mott Community College Jazz Band. Karl won first place in the Flint School of Performing Arts Concerto Competition, and performed as a soloist with the Flint Youth Symphony Orchestra in the 2018-19 season. He was selected to perform at the Indiana University Ensemble Camp Honors Recital, and has also received numerous scholarships, including the St. Cecilia Society and Paul Torre Music Awards. Musicians he is inspired by include John Coltrane, Olivier Messiaen, and Igor Stravinsky.
Karl will be the featured soloist at an upcoming concert. The exact date and time will be determined after COVID-19 restrictions have lifted. He will perform the Concerto for Marimba written by Emmanuel Séjourné.
The 2020–21 season marks our 75th anniversary. To celebrate the milestone, we have commissioned a new work for concert band from composer Andrew Boysen. "The Lakes" features a movement representing each of Michigan's Great Lakes, and will be debuted when LCB can safely reconvene.
I. Erie (The Battle of Lake Erie and Oliver Hazard Perry)
II. Huron (The Ballad of Minnie Quay and the Ghosts of the Lakes)
III. Ontario (Kingstie and the Monsters of the Lakes)
IV. Superior (The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Legend of the Three Waves)
V. Michigan (The Legend of Sleeping Bear Dunes)
Join us!
The Lansing Concert Band accepts new members by audition. Auditions are informal, but please prepare a short piece that shows both your technical skill and expressive playing. Message or phone us, and you will be contacted by a section leader. Not all sections will have open seats, but we will make accommodations for qualified players.
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