Wind Ensemble Travels to Carnegie Hall

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Wind Ensemble, Purdue Bands & Orchestras premiere wind band, will be taking the stage at New York City’s famed Carnegie Hall in March 2016.  Over 65 Purdue students will make the trip, just ten years after Director of Bands, Jay Gephart, took his first performing group. Students will leave Purdue the evening of March 26 and travel throughout the night, arriving in Manhattan the morning of March 27.  A dinner cruise and sightseeing will be included as part of the student tour.  The concert will take place the evening of the March 29 at 8:00 PM.  Tickets can be purchased via the Carnegie Hall Box Office beginning in January 2016 at carnegiehall.org.

For further information, please contact Courtney Downey, cndowney@purdue.edu