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COE
COLLEGE BANDS
Cedar
Rapids, Iowa |
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Departmental Administrative Assistant: Bernadette Tiede (btiede@coe.edu)
Student Assistants: Alex Brownfield (ajbrownfield@coe.edu) James Flansburg-Sivell (jrflansburgsivell@coe.edu)
For more infomation on Instrumental Music Faculty, click HERE
Music Scholarship Information HERE
(Including Full-Tuition Marshall Scholarship)
For information on Dr. Carson's classes, please click HERE.
Hear an interview with Dr. Carson HERE.
CONCERT
BAND / WIND ENSEMBLE
Click HERE
for this week's schedule
Click
HERE
for press release about Nov. 14 concert
Current band members, click HERE for course information
Click HERE for today's rehearsal schedule
Click HERE for CONCERT BAND REPERTOIRE 2009-2010
Learn about
the Coe College Bands' long and distinguished Click
here to learn more about our August 2008 tour to
Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Shanghai! Click
here for a slideshow of China tour photos!
Click
here to see a picture
of the band at the 1949 inauguration of President Harry S. Truman Click
here
for Coe College Concert Band and Jazz Band Audio/Video files
Recent
Accomplishments ►December, 2008: Jazz Band
featured in Quartet of Happiness
You-Tube publicity video ►August, 2008: Touring Wind
Ensemble and Jazz Band's trip to TAIWAN,
HONG KONG, AND SHANGHAI ►March, 2007: two students (Sara
Johnson, trumpet, David Neff, euphonium) were
selected for the National Honor Band of the College Band Directors
National
Association, ranking Coe among the finest college band programs in the
nation. ►November, 2006: Twelve
Coe Band Members were selected for the 2006 Iowa College All-Star Band,
ranking
the Coe College Concert Band as one of the finest college bands in Iowa. ►May, 2006: The Coe
Mozart Ensemble performs at the Iowa
Bandmasters Convention ►March,
2006: Two students were selected for the 2006 College Band Directors
National
Association North Central Regional Honor Band, ranking the Coe College
Concert
Band as one of the finest college bands in the Midwest. ►November, 2005: Ten Coe
students selected for the 2005 Iowa College All-Star
Band. ►August, 2005: Touring
Wind Ensemble and Jazz Band perform in HAWAII and
SOUTH KOREA. ►August, 2003: Touring Wind Ensemble and
Jazz Band's trip to ENGLAND and SCOTLAND. Click HERE for photos
and video clips.Click HERE for
itinerary information on the trip. Click
here for a large version of this
picture of the
Touring Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Carson,
Director of Jazz Studies Steve
Shanley directs
the Coe College Touring Jazz Ensemble at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
during the Bands' tour to England and Scotland in 2003. 2007
Festival of Band Grand Finale Concert - Shostakovich Festival Overture
of
success!
►November,
2008: Ten Coe students selected for the 2008 Iowa College
All-Star
Band.
Click HERE for information
about FRIENDS OF MUSIC AT COE (FOMAC)
New
Horizons
Band of
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
hosted by Coe College
Alan Lawrence, conductor
alawrenc@coe.edu
Need to borrow music? Check out our Band Library, our March Size Library, our Jazz Band Library, or our Small Ensemble Libraries.
Click here for the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band Library.
The bands administered by Dr. Carson include the Coe College Bands:
Coe College Concert Band (see
the pic) : Coe College
Concert Band in Rehearsal - click here for photos
Coe Gold Jazz Ensemble
(Big Band) directed by Steve Shanley
Coe Crimson Jazz Ensemble (Jazz and Improvisation Laboratory)
Coe
College/Cedar Rapids Symphony School Senior Honor Band
Coe College/Cedar
Rapids Symphony School Junior Honor Band
Coe College/Cedar Rapids
Symphony School Elementary Honor Band
As well as the:
Bill Carson Big Band
Other instrumental ensembles at Coe College include:
The Coe College
Drumline
The Coe College Orchestra
The Bands annually present several major festivals:
COE COLLEGE JAZZ SUMMIT
COE COLLEGE
FESTIVAL OF BANDS
Coe's Professor of Art, Peter Thompson,
is known for his paintings of
musicians.
See his paintings of members of the Coe College Bands.
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designed by Dr.
William S. Carson
Coe College, 1220 First Avenue Northeast, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 52402

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In April 2004, Coe College's instructor of Low Brass, Bill Behrens, was killed in a tragic automobile accident.
Click here for a Bill Behrens tribute site.
Click here for Information on the Low Brass Day in his memory, January 29, 2006.