Concordia's Wind Symphony to Embark on 2025 Spring Tour

by Hope Nelson

Seward, NE (01/28/2025) — Concordia University, Nebraska's premier instrumental ensemble, the University Wind Symphony, will travel to Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas on their 2025 spring tour from March 7-17, 2025.

The group tours each year locally and throughout the United States. This year's tour will take them as far as the Southern Coast. It will include concerts at churches in Houston, Tomball, San Antonio and Austin, Texas, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and others.

The Wind Symphony regularly performs full-length concerts and participates in school assemblies and Sunday worship services. Their repertoire is diverse; features at each 2025 tour stop include compositions by traditional composers such as Alfred Reed, John Philip Sousa and more as well as modern composers such as Katahj Copley, William Owens and Danielle Fischer.

The theme of this year's tour will be the text of Romans 8:38-39: "For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."

The band is under the direction of Robert Cody, Assistant Professor of Music at Concordia Nebraska. Cody earned a bachelor's degree in music from Concordia Nebraska, a master's degree in music education and conducting emphasis from Colorado State University and is pursuing a doctorate in instrumental conducting from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Admission to concerts is free, and free-will offerings will be collected at each concert to assist with tour costs.

Itinerary

Friday, March 7

Immanuel Lutheran Church, Colorado Springs, Colo.

7 p.m. concert

Saturday, March 8

Ortega Middle School, Alamosa, Colo.

7 p.m. concert

Sunday, March 9

Christ Lutheran Church, Alberquerque, N.M.

7 p.m. concert

Tuesday, March 11

Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, San Antonio, Texas

7 p.m. concert

Wednesday, March 12

St. Paul Lutheran Church, Austin, Texas

7 p.m. concert

Thursday, March 13

Salem Lutheran Church, Tomball, Texas

7 p.m. concert

Saturday, March 15

Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Houston, Texas

7 p.m. concert

Sunday, March 16

Christ Lutheran Church, Oklahoma City, Okla.

7 p.m. concert

Members of the Wind Symphony include:

FLUTE:

Faith Brackney, freshman, Allen, Texas

Sadie Henson, senior, Herrin, Ill.

Abby Kandt, senior, Wake Forest, N.C.

Karalynn Pingel, sophomore, Janesville, Wis.

Psalm Richters, senior, Utica, Neb.

Evelyn Schwartz, freshman, Peachtree City, Ga.

Danielle Turner, freshman, Derby, Kan.

BASSOON:

Joshua Jurchen, junior, Seward, Neb.

CLARINET:

Bailey Bianco, sophomore, Loveland, Colo.

Arabella Blakeley, junior, Havana, Ill.

Ellie Lehr, junior, Omaha, Neb.

Sydney Rohwer, sophomore, Kearney, Neb.

Thomas Zimmerman, sophomore, Apple Valley, Minn.

BASS CLARINET:

Hannah Ethridge, junior, Fulda, Minn.

Isabella Schmid, senior, Rockford, Ill.

ALTO SAXOPHONE:

Autumn Consier, sophomore, Churdan, Iowa

Grace Donnelly, junior, Three Forks, Mont.

Jacob Huber, PB, Canton, S.D.

Nathan Sollberger, sophomore, Louisville, Neb.

Megan Welch, junior, Columbus, Neb.

TENOR SAXOPHONE:

Jonah Carter, sophomore, McKinney, Texas

Taylor Rogers, sophomore, Plainville, Kan.

BARITONE SAXOPHONE:

Logan Walgate, senior, St. Charles, Mo.

TRUMPET:

Taylor Beal, sophomore, Wichita, Kan.

Emily Castens, freshman, New Haven, Ind.

Samuel Dunbar, senior, Lambertville, N.J.

Bailey Hidy, sophomore, Trenton, Neb.

Abbey Kudrna, sophomore, Omaha, Neb.

Mitchell Stephens, freshman, Houston, Texas

FRENCH HORN:

Nathan Feusse, junior, Saginaw, Mich.

Elizabeth Salo, Palmyra, Mo.

Creighton Urban, freshman, Callender, Iowa

TROMBONE:

Maxwell Carlson, sophomore, Norfolk, Neb.

David Eatherton, freshman, St. Louis, Mo.

Miriam Ganoung, junior, Halsey, Neb.

Michaela Gibbs, freshman, Virginia Beach, Va.

Matthew Guilford, sophomore, Lincoln, Neb.

Joshua Meyer, sophomore, Longmont, Colo.

EUPHONIUM:

Ellen Klintworth, sophomore, Seward, Neb.

Jacob Laesch, freshman, St. Louis, Mo.

Micah Travis, freshman, Sioux City, Iowa

TUBA:

Matthew Frerking, freshman, Columbia, Mo.

Benjamin Sams, freshman, Utica, Neb.

PERCUSSION:

Aleksa Chambers, sophomore, Wilber, Neb.

Ethan Gillespie, senior, Random Lake, Wis.

Timothy Mars, senior, Cody, Wyo.

Shasta Tonniges, junior, York, Neb.

Rebecca Tredray, freshman, Robbinsdale, Minn.

Jacob Wald, freshman, Sioux Falls, S.D.

Aaron Wulff, junior, St. Charles, Mo.

About Concordia University, Nebraska

Concordia University, Nebraska, founded in 1894, is a fully accredited, coeducational university of The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod located in Seward, Nebraska, which currently serves more than 1,700 students. Concordia offers more than 100 undergraduate, graduate and professional programs in an excellent academic and Christ-centered community that equips men and women for lives of learning, service and leadership in the church and world. For more information, visit cune.edu.

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