LIU China Band Tour 2012

Saturday, June 23, 2012

2 days to go!!

LIU China Tour 2012: With over fifty years of history, the Band Program at LIU Post provides university students with outstanding performance and educational opportunities, featuring on-campus performances at Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, and off-campus performances at local venues, as well as regional, state and national conferences. In the last eleven years they have produced 20 compact disc recordings, sponsored seven regional band festivals (the ninth scheduled for March 2013) hosted multiple performance workshops, commissioned and premiered six original works for concert band, and been chosen to perform in two state music conferences. Annual Band Festivals have included week-long residencies with composers such as David Gillingham, Mark Camphouse, Frank Ticheli, Timothy Mahr, Roger Cichy, and Philip Sparke. In July 2009, the band ensembles travelled to Eastern Europe on an international performance tour, and in June of 2012 they will travel to China for ten days of touring and performances. Since 1998, the bands at LIU Post have amassed a performance repertoire of over 300 different works by classic to contemporary composers.

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