Lone Star Wind Orchestra presents
20TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON CELEBRATION
Join us for this epic concert to celebrate 20 years of Lone Star Wind Orchestra and Music Changing Lives! Featuring the LSWO, Lone Star Youth Winds, Conductors Eugene Migliaro Corporon & Andrew Trachsel, pianist Aaron Kurz, and Grammy award-winning composer Michael Daugherty.
20TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON CELEBRATION
Lone Star Wind Orchestra & Lone Star Youth Winds
Conductor: Eugene Migliaro Corporon / Andrew Trachsel
Guest Artist(s): Michael Daugherty, composer
Aaron Kurz, piano
Sunday, January 25, 2026
Meyerson Symphony Center
3 p.m.
The Lone Star Wind Orchestra celebrates 20 years of music-making and outreach with a program that honors our past while looking boldly toward the future. Featuring special guest composers, immersive multimedia experiences, and thrilling world premieres, this concert embodies the spirit of creativity that has defined our journey. Together, we mark this milestone season with a vision as vibrant and dynamic as the music itself.
To celebrate, the Lone Star Wind Orchestra is pulling out all the stops. The concert welcomes Grammy award-winning composer Michael Daugherty in attendance for the world premiere of the wind band transcription of Last Dance at the Surf. Back by popular demand, renowned and local favorite piano soloist, Aaron Kurz performs a piano concerto by composer Nancy Galbraith. The Lone Star Wind Orchestra collaborates with Dallas non-profit KnoxBox Dance to give the world premiere of a new dance film presented as a multimedia experience with Cuban American composer Dennis Llinas’ La Chancla. The Lone Star Youth Winds presents a multimedia experience with Tyler Grant’s All the Earth and Air and gives the consortium premiere of Kevin Poelking’s Green Whispers. In addition, the concert also features music by Larry Tuttle and John Corigliano. The Lone Star Wind Orchestra and the Lone Star Youth Winds will join forces for the final piece of the concert.
PROGRAM (subject to change):
All the Earth and Air, Tyler Grant
Green Whispers, Kevin Poelking
*Consortium Premiere
Dynamo, Larry Tuttle
Concerto for Piano and Winds, Nancy Galbraith
*Featuring pianist Aaron Kurz
La Chancla, Dennis Llinas
*Collaborative multimedia experience w/ KnowBox Dance
Last Dance at the Surf, Michael Daugherty
*World premiere of wind band transcription
Gazebo Dances, John Corigliano/ed. Cao
