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MEADVILLE, Pa. – April 25, 2005 – The Allegheny College Wind Symphony and Wind Ensemble will present their 2005 spring concert on Sunday, May 1 at 3:15 p.m. in Shafer Auditorium. Both ensembles are under the direction of Professor of Music Lowell Hepler.

The Wind Symphony is an 85-member symphonic band with open membership by audition to all Allegheny College students. The Wind Ensemble is a select 40-member ensemble chosen by audition from the Wind Symphony. In addition to their campus concerts, the Allegheny ensembles in past years have toured the Eastern, Southern and Midwestern United States.

The Wind Symphony will open the concert with Overture in C by Catel, Second Suite in F for Military Band by Holst, “Invictus” by Balmages and Variants on a Moravian Hymn by Barnes. The Wind Ensemble will then take the stage to perform Holst’s Japanese Suite, Op. 33 and Reed’s “Armenian Dances.”

The Wind Symphony will return for “Appalachian Overture” by Barnes, selections from “The Phantom of the Opera” by Weber/Barker, “His Excellency March” by Fillmore and “God of Our Fathers” by Thomas Knox. The Allegheny Flute Ensemble and the Allegheny Saxophone Ensemble will perform pre-concert music. The concert is free and open to the public.

Professor of music and director of bands at Allegheny College, Lowell Hepler is a frequent guest conductor for music festivals ranging from county through all-state levels. Hepler is Principal Tuba with the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lake Erie Ballet Company and the Savelli Concert Band. He is also a member of Undercurrents, a tuba/euphonium quartet made up of college and university faculty in western Pennsylvania.

Hepler has served as president of the Pennsylvania Collegiate Bandmasters Association, and he is the current president of the Pennsylvania Chapter of Phi Beta Mu, Honorary Bandmasters Fraternity.