Concert Band, October 2024
Wind Symphony, October 2024
Two Bands, One Mission
Verona Area Concert Bands (VACB) provide opportunities for community members to make music. Through regular rehearsals and concerts in the Verona, Wisconsin area, VACB educates, inspires and entertains participating musicians and audiences alike. We aim for high musical and technical standards, perform works for concert band from many musical genres, and support a vision of music‐making as a lifelong activity.
Get Involved
Since our founding, it has been our mission to provide opportunities for community members to make music together.
Our members come from diverse musical backgrounds, ranging from musicians who are continuing their love of playing in high school and college‐level bands to members who have earned degrees in music education and performance.
With our non-auditioned Concert Band of over 100 performers and our auditioned Wind Symphony of about 60 members, we continue to be thrilled with the high level of interest in participating!
The Big Apple
Oct
22
Concert Band
Aaron Copland
An Outdoor Overture
George Gershwin arr. John Krance
Second Prelude (from “Three Preludes”)
Nkeiru Okoye
Voices Shouting Out
William Schuman
George Washington Bridge: An Impression for Band
Wind Symphony
Eric Ewazen
A Hymn for the Lost and the Living
Michael Markowski
City Trees
Leonard Bernstein trans. Paul Lavender
Three Dance Episodes from “On the Town”
About Us
Verona Area Concert Bands is comprised of two all-volunteer wind bands that each present four concerts per year.
Rehearsing year‐round under the direction of Music Director and Principal Conductor Eric Anderson and Associate Conductor Dan Joosten, VACB bands perform a wide range of repertoire from concert band classics to contemporary compositions of new composers of wind band repertoire.
Founded in 2010, the Verona Area Concert Bands proudly enjoy the enthusiastic support of musicians and audience members from Verona, Madison, and their surrounding communities in south central Wisconsin.