Wind Symphony
Wind Symphony I is the top 45–50 musicians in the Fort Mill High School Band. Membership is competitive and demands a high level of individual playing.
Members are expected to study privately, audition for honor bands, perform in solo recitals and competitions, and play in chamber ensembles. The group performs some of the most demanding literature in the wind band repertoire at the grade-6 level, and every member is expected to have the technique and musicianship to keep up. Seats are held through regular playing tests.
The Wind Symphony and Symphonic Bands perform many concerts through the year — the annual Christmas Concert, a winter concert, the SC Band Directors Association Concert Festival in the spring (where they have consistently earned superior ratings), a chamber concert, and the spring concert in May. Additional groups include Wind Symphony II and Wind Symphony III.
Program history
Recent concerts and repertoire
11 concerts · 110 works · most recent Apr 2026
2026 Spring Concert
Mr. Carney's retirement concert! Additionally, the chamber concert was two days prior on April 28th. Busy week for our musicians!
Wind Symphony 3
Kirkpatrick Fanfare
Andrew Boysen Jr.
Mambo from West Side Story
Leonard Bernstein · arr. Michael Sweeney
Kirkpatrick's Muse
Jay Bocook
Wind Symphony 2
Conga Del Fuego Nuevo
Arturo Marquez · arr. Oliver Nickel
Shattering Infinity
Benjamin Dean Taylor
American Barndance
Richard Saucedo
On the Mall
Edwin Franko Goldman
Wind Symphony 1
Seis Manuel
Shelley Hanson
Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral
Richard Wagner · arr. Lucien Cailliet
Disco Kid
Osamu Shoji · arr. Tohru Kanayama
Societe Blue
Andrew David Perkins
Stars and Stripes
John Philip Sousa
2026 Concert Performance Assessments
WS3 IV, WS2 VI, WS1 VI-M
Wind Symphony 3
The Thunderer
John Philip Sousa
The Witch and the Saint
Steven Reineke
Down in the River
Jay Bocook
Wind Symphony 2
The Liberty Bell
John Philip Sousa
Early Light
Carolyn Bremer
Until the Scars
John Mackey
Wind Symphony 1
D'un Soir Triste
Lili Boulanger
Carmina Burana
Carl Orff · arr. John Krance
- XIII Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi
- II Fortune plango vulnera
- III Ecce gratum
- IV Tanz: Uf dem anger
- V Floret silva
- VI Were diu werlt alle min
- VII Amor volat undique
- VIII Ego sum abbas
- IX In taberna quando sumus
- X In trutina
- XI Dulcissime
- XII Ave formosissima
- XIII Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi
Winter Concert
Concert cancelled due to inclement weather.
Wind Symphony 3
The Light Eternal
James Swearingen
As All the Heavens Were a Bell
Jay Bocook
Double Happiness
Joseph Curiale
Wind Symphony 2
A Ship in the Mist
Rossano Galante
(Un)veiling
Tyler S. Grant
Pilatus: Mountain of Dragons
Steven Reineke
Wind Symphony 1
Molly on the Shore
Percy Grainger
Carmina Burana
Carl Orff · arr. John Krance
- I O Fortuna, velut Luna
- II Fortune plango vulnera
- III Ecce gratum
- IV Tanz: Uf dem anger
- V Floret silva
- VI Were diu werlt alle min
- VII Amor volat undique
- VIII Ego sum abbas
- IX In taberna quando sumus
- X In trutina
- XI Dulcissime
- XII Ave formosissima
- XIII Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi
The Stars and Stripes Forever
John Philip Sousa
Spring Concert "Journeys"
Wind Symphony 3
Breakthrough
Tyler Grant
Tripwire
JaRod Hall
Amparito Roca
Jaime Texidor · arr. Aubrey Winter
The Old Hound Dog Rag
Randall Standridge
Across the Desert Sands
Michael Oare
Wind Symphony 2
March of the Sun-Dried Tomatoes
Julie Giroux
The Prince of Egypt
Stephen Schwartz · arr. Jay Bocook
Arabesque
Sam Hazo
Patiala Pulse
Shruthi Rajasekar
The Wizard of Oz
Harold Arlen & E.Y Harburg · arr. James Barnes
Wind Symphony 1
Slava!
Leonard Bernstein · arr. Clare Grundman
Down in the River
Jay Bocook
See Rock City
Brant Karrick
Henry V
Patrick Doyle · arr. Johan de Meij
The Stars and Stripes Forever
John Philip Sousa
