Directors:

Sun Prairie East High School
Joseph Mesner:
[email protected]
608-834-6780
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Sun Prairie West High School
Matt McVeigh:
[email protected]
608-834-6781

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HIGH SCHOOL BAND NEWS
The Water is Wide (for the seniors)

About Sun Prairie High School Bands (both East & West):

 Students in the Sun Prairie High School Band program participate in one of three concert bands:
  • Concert Band (two sections)
  • Wind Ensemble

Student may opt to participate in any portion of our extra-curricular program which include:
  • 3 Jazz Ensembles
  • Jazz Combo
  • Epoch Sound - Pep Band
  • Pit orchestra
  • Cchamber groups        
  • Sound of Sun Prairie - summer competitive marching band 

All students in the Sun Prairie Band program receive weekly small group instruction from a district band staff member. 
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All band students also participate in a composer or conductor in residence program that features a guest composer or conductor working with all of the concert bands at both East and West High Schools. Past composers include: Charles Rochester Young, Jim Bonney, Sam Hazo, Richard Saucedo, Frank Ticheli, Jonathan Newman, Michael Daugherty, Michael Markowski, Wataru Hokoyama, Kim Archer, David Maslanka, Erika Savano, Omar Thomas, and Marie Douglas.   

The Wind Ensemble has been invited to perform at both the Wisconsin WMEA and WNBA convention, and regional MENC conventions in Minneapolis and Cincinnati and the National MENC, as well as collaborated with the Wind Ensembles of UW-Madison, UW-Stevens Point, and Carroll University in preparation of new music and concert performance. 
 Sun Prairie Bands
“Move beyond the notes to cultivate a life long passion and drive for creativity, curiosity, and community through a vision of students as accomplished learners and evolving musicians in pursuit of artistry”