Updated 03/24/09 04:25:43 PM

 

COE COLLEGE BANDS

Cedar Rapids, Iowa
 Dr. William S. Carson, Director of Bands

Steve Shanley, Director of Jazz Studies

Click HERE for information about
Dr. Carson's book:

On the Path to Excellence - 

The Northshore Concert Band:  

Paynter, Buehlman, and Beyond

Published by Meredith Music

 

Departmental Administrative Assistant:  Bernadette Tiede (btiede@coe.edu)

Student Assistants: Melissa Andersen (maanders@coe.edu) Heath Long (halong@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.

CONCERT BAND / WIND ENSEMBLE

Current band members, click HERE for course information

 

Click HERE for today's rehearsal schedule

 

Click HERE for CONCERT BAND REPERTOIRE SPRING 2009

 

Learn about the Coe College Bands' long and distinguished Our Proud History!of success!

YouTubeVideo 1940!

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

 

 

►November, 2008:  Ten Coe students selected for the 2008 Iowa College All-Star Band.

 

 

 

 

 

 

►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,

performing in South Korea

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 http://www.public.coe.edu/~wcarson/MorePixUp.gifhttp://www.public.coe.edu/~wcarson/SampleProgsUp.gifhttp://www.public.coe.edu/~wcarson/JazzSummitUp.gifSee Pictures!

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. Peter Thompson's paintings

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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.