Keystone Wind Ensemble
The Keystone Wind Ensemble is a popular concert band of about 50 players who perform on wind, brass, and percussion instruments. The KWE is unusual in that it performs primarily as a recording entity, with live performance serving as an important though secondary function. Indeed, the stated mission of the KWE upon its founding was to record both traditional and contemporary concert band works for national distribution. The ensemble is sponsored by the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, on whose campus all of its more than 20 commercial recordings have been made. Most of those efforts are available from the Klavier label. All members of the KWE are either faculty, students, alumni, or administrators of the university. The KWE's repertory is very broad but focuses largely on American music by such composers as Sousa, Leroy Anderson, William Schuman, Norman Dello Joio, David Diamond, Alfred Reed, Herbert Owen Reed, and many others, including the ensemble's founder Jack Stamp. That said, the KWE have also performed music (often in arrangements) by Vaughan Williams, Holst, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Turina, and other European composers.
The Keystone Wind Ensemble was founded in 1992 by composer and conductor Jack Stamp, who both chairs the music department and serves as director of band studies at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Appropriately, the KWE's first recording, issued on Klavier in 1993, was a disc of Stamp works entitled Past the Equinox: The Music of Jack Stamp.
Night Fantasy: The Music of Robert Ward followed in 1994, and two recordings came in 1995, Celebrations and Divertimento: Wind Music of American Composers, all on Klavier. The KWE garnered much critical acclaim for these efforts and went on to perform notable concerts at Penn State University in 1998 and the University of North Texas in 2001.
A Texas appearance led to a 2002 educational recording, Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, on which the KWE appeared with the North Texas Wind Symphony. The KWE's 2003 Klavier CD, The Composer's Voice: Norman Dello Joio, was its first commercial recording since 1999. It led to a string of successful recordings, including the 2008 Leroy Anderson: The Phantom Regiment and Other Tales.
In 2009 the KWE performed at the University of Cincinnati for the conference of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles. The KWE's 2011 Klavier CD Tempo di Bourgeois featured the ensemble in various arrangements and transcriptions under the direction of John Bourgeois.
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Discography
18 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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SCHUMAN: George Washington Bridge / Prelude for a Great Occasion / New England Triptych (William Schuman - Don Owen - na Not Applicable)
Klassiek - Released by Klavier on 1 jan. 2005
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Pageant
Keystone Wind Ensemble, Jack Stamp
Klassiek - Released by Citadel - Mafy on 30 jun. 2021
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Composer's Collection: Jack Stamp
Keystone Wind Ensemble, Eugène Migliaro Corporon, Jack Stamp, North Texas Wind Symphony
Klassiek - Released by GIA WindWorks on 1 jan. 2009
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DELLO JOIO: Variants on a Mediaeval Tune / From Every Horizon / City Profiles / Concertante (Norman Dello Joio)
Klassiek - Released by Klavier on 1 jan. 2003
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KEYSTONE WIND ENSEMBLE: H. Owen Reed (Herbert Owen Reed - na Not Applicable)
Klassiek - Released by Klavier on 1 jan. 2004
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Tull: Piano Concerto & Works for Wind Ensemble
Keystone Wind Ensemble, Jacob Ertl, Fisher Tull, Jack Stamp, Andrew Yates
Klassiek - Released by Klavier on 9 okt. 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Five in the Sun
Kamermuziek - Released by Klavier on 2 apr. 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Past The Equinox (Music Of Jack Stamp)
Klassiek - Released by Citadel - Mafy on 14 apr. 1994
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Songs Of Abelard And Other World Premieres
Klassiek - Released by Citadel - Mafy on 30 apr. 1998
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Wind Visions: The Music of Samuel Adler
Keystone Wind Ensemble, Jack Stamp
Klassiek - Released by Citadel - Mafy on 23 jun. 2021
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Divertimento (Wind Music Of Diamond, Tull Washburn, Stamp, Tower)
Keystone Wind Ensemble, Jack Stamp
Klassiek - Released by Citadel - Mafy on 16 jun. 1995
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Night Fantasy (Music For Winds)
Klassiek - Released by Citadel - Mafy on 9 jun. 1994
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
2009 WASBE Cincinnati, USA: Keystone Winds
Keystone Wind Ensemble, Lauren Jordan, Bradley Genevro, Jack Stamp
Klassiek - Released by Mark Records on 23 jul. 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Grace & Glory (Jack Stamp)
Klassiek - Released by Klavier on 6 mrt. 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
WASHBURN, R.: Partita / Brass Quintet / Symphony for Band / Suite / Concertino (Keystone Wind Ensemble, Stamp) (Robert Washburn - na Not Applicable)
Klassiek - Released by Klavier on 26 jan. 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
KEYSTONE WIND ENSEMBLE: Alfred Reed (Alfred Reed - Joaquin Turina - na Not Applicable)
Klassiek - Released by Klavier on 1 jan. 2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo