William Paterson University Band

📸 our favorite digital camera flicks from thursday’s concert! (plus some friends) #percussion #concert #wpmusic #music #college

Recap of @wp_bands final concert of the semester! 🧡🎺 📸 photo credits: Gabriela Mozo-Araujo '28 @skinny_waffle

Meet Dr. Teresa Purcell-Giles, our Director of Bands at WP! 🧡🎶 [Bands, College Bands, NJ Bands, Composition, Music, #bands #bandkid #wpunj]

We’re honored to host this year’s New Jersey Band Gala on Sunday, April 26th, featuring twelve outstanding bands from around the state. With concerts at 2:00 Pm and 6:00 PM, we’re looking forward to a wonderful day of music-making, and invite you to attend! Scan/screenshot the QR in post for details and tickets!

Join us for the WP Bands final concert of the semester on Thursday, April 23, 2026 at 7:30 PM in Shea Auditorium. Featuring faculty artist Dr James Noyes playing Pascuzzi’s Aria and Allegro for Wind Ensemble and soprano saxophone. Carl Orff’s seminal work Carmina Burana will close the concert. We hope to see you there!

That’s a wrap on our 3rd annual Sensory Friendly Concert Series, “Bear Hunt” Edition. Symphonic Story Time has grown into something incredibly special, and with two school day performances and one community concert of “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt: Live in Concert”with a film score by @stuarthancockcomposer (commissioned and premiered by the WP Wind Ensemble), we welcomed close to 2,000 audience members across Friday, Saturday and Monday! Thank you to Mr. Hancock for the wonderful music, to our WP students for their artistry and hard work and to our many partner schools from Bergenfield, Bloomfield, Clifton, Fairview, Franklin, Hardyston, Jefferson, Newark, Palisades Park, Paterson, and Warren Hills! We’ll see you March 5th-8th, 2027 for the next SF series! Mark calendars, and tell us in the comments what children’s books you’d like to hear set to music in future Symphonic Story Times!

Yesterday was Band Day at WP! Designed as a festival opportunity for bands of all levels, participants were given the opportunity to perform, receive feedback, and participate in a clinic! Clincs were led by Dr. Scott Watson and Dr. Teresa Purcell-Giles. The event was MC'd by Professor John Maiello, and WP students volunteered throughout the day! 🥁🎺🧡🖤 #band #collegeband #bandfestival #music #explore

The William Paterson University Bands presents a Sensory Friendly Concert of “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt” and you are invited! Saturday, March 7th | 3:00 PM | Shea Center for the Performing Arts | $15, adults/$10, children/Free, children under 2 and WP students/faculty/staff This screen-to-stage performance features the 2016 animated film adaptation of the classic children’s book by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury and is sure to delight audiences. With the sound track performed by the wind ensemble live on stage, the film playing in the background, an introduction to the instruments of the band family and a culminating sing-along, the audience will be engaged throughout the 60-minute performance. SENSORY FRIENDLY ACCOMMODATIONS: The performance is open to all, and is also designed to be accommodating for those with sensory processing challenges, and includes modified lighting, dynamic ranges and quiet spaces, if needed. TICKET INFO: Tickets are $15 for adults, 18 and over; $10 for children, 2-17 and free for children under 2. The performance is free WP students/faculty/staff, with ID. TICKETS AT LINK IN BIO

We are so excited for this year’s Sensory Friendly Concert Series, which features a screen-to stage adaptation of the charming film “We’re Going in a Bear Hunt” with the Wind Ensemble playing the transcription of the delightful soundtrack by Stuart Hancock (which we commissioned) live on stage! Have kids? Teach kids? Know kids? Invite them to this unforgettable experience! Swipe through the slides to learn more! #linkinbio #bearhunt #michaelrosen #helenoxenbury #classicchildrensbooks

Congrats to 2018 WP alumnus Joshua Idio on having his piece “Cannon Fire!” performed by the Davenport Central Symphonic Wind Ensemble at the Randall Standridge Music Composers concert at the 79th Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago!!

WowWowWow!!!! It has been an amazing few days with our Composer-in-Residence Omar Thomas! He is an amazing pedagogue and human and his writing for wind band offers an incredible, distinct and much-needed voice to the repertoire. Over the past few days, we’ve teamed up with the wonderful students and directors at Bergenfield High School to work on six of Omar’s pieces, which we’ll feature in a concert tomorrow evening, December 4th at 7:30! Also on this program is the one-and-only, phenomenal Dr. David Demsey, who is soloing with the Bergenfield bands. It’s going to be an incredible night. Don’t miss it!