CURRENT PROJECTS

May 22, 2022 - Waukesha Area Symphonic Band
"Can I Get That in Writing?" - music of Hanson, Bennett, Gould, Copland & Barber
WORLD PREMIERE - Afterword, Percy Grainger - transcribed Ripley

May 8, 2022 - Wind Orchestra & Concert Band
"Diversions" - music of Copland, Coleman, Spittal (Barbara Drapcho, clarinet), Wagner, Loretan, Purcell & Berlioz

March 27, 2022 - Wind Orchestra
PHOENIX TOUR Home Concert - music of Ellerby, Vaughan Williams, Latham, McBeth, King & Bach

December 10, 2021 - Waukesha Area Symphonic Band
Christmas Concert - music of Delius, Shelley Hanson, Curnow, Hazo, Tchaikovsky & Kirby

December 3-5, 2021 - Wind Orchestra & Concert Band
Christmas Festival - music of Dunn, Shelley Hanson, Ellerby & Lauridsen

November 6, 2021 - Wind Orchestra
Lakeside Band Festival - music of Alfred Reed, Stravinsky & Omar Thomas

October 17, 2021 - Wind Orchestra
Homecoming Concert - music of Gounod & Omar Thomas

September 19, 2021 - Combined Bands
Pops Concert - music of Singleton, Anderson, Scott, Colgrass, Biedenbender and Babin (Emma Hardwick, clarinet)

RECENT PROJECTS

May 15, 2021 - Wind Orchestra & Concert Band
"Memories" - music of Merrill, Fukushima, Whitacre (London Roysden, soprano) Still & Holmquist

February 27, 2021 - AMATI & Wind Orchestra
"Crossover" - music of Stephenson, Syler, Omar Thomas, Silva, Leon & Perkins

November 14, 2020 - AMATI, Wind Orchestra, Concert Band & Percussion Ensemble
"Evolution in Sound" - music of Cirone, Hall, Glennie, Kushida, Arbeau,
Telemann, Still, Beethoven, Santos, Grainger, Praetorius, Bach & Holmquist

September 27, 2020 -Combined Bands
Pops Concert - music of Bach & John Williams
WORLD PREMIERE  - And the Sun Slept. David Godbold

May 15, 2020 - AMATI
WORLD PREMIERE - Talitha Cumi, Syndey Kjerstad - 150th Anniversary of Carthage Women Commission

February 29, 2020 - Wind Orchestra & Concert Band
"Music of Poland" - music of Chopin, Landowska, Ptaszynska, & Lutoslawski
Western Hemisphere Premiere - "Burlesque Suite from UBU REX" - Penderecki

January 26, 2020 - Wind Orchestra
JAPAN TOUR Home Concert - music of Syler, Reeves, Sousa, Dan, & Kinoshita
WORLD PREMIERE - Shieldmaiden, Jocelyn Hagen - 150th Anniversary of Carthage Women Commission

November 20, 2019 - Wind Orchestra & AMATI
"Prism Concert" - music of Mozart, Alwyn, Joplin, Sibelius, Respighi, & Montague
WORLD PREMIERE - a Chloris, Reynaldo Hahn

October 12, 2019 - Wind Orchestra & Alumni Band
"Homecoming Concert" - music of Tailleferre (Stephanie Burg Kuhn, soloist), Cowell (Kaitlyn Dolata VandeVen, soloist), & Syler
WORLD PREMIERE - Rise Up!, Judy Bozone - 150th Anniversary of Carthage Women Commission

May 17, 2019 - Wind Orchestra & Concert Band
"Best of All Possible Worlds" - music of Persichetti, Bridge, Holst, Shapiro, Bernstein, & De Meij
WORLD PREMIERE - Laurie's Song, Aaron Copland, arr. Ripley - Laura Smith, soprano
Rust Belt, Christopher Marshall - with Jacinda Ripley & Kevin Natoli, guest trumpet soloists

May 3, 2019 - Waukesha Area Symphonic Band
"Dance Card" - music of Alfred Reed, Norman Dello Joio, & Robert Russell Bennett
including the complete set of Symphonic Dances by Clifton Williams in memory of Dr. Barry Ellis

March 17, 2019 - Wind Orchestra
"Myths and Legends" including Four Irish Myths, Henry Cowell, arr. Ripley
COMMISSION PREMIERE - Quicksilver, Stacy Garrop - Andrew Carpenter, alto saxophone

February 15-16, 2019 - Bandoramapalozzafest - Carroll University
Carthage Wind Orchestra & Waukesha Area Symphonic Band - music of Holst, Orff, Dett, Wollman, & Wagner
featured selections by Jack Stamp, guest conductor
COMMISSION PREMIERE - A Young Symphony, Jose Ignacio Blesa Lull

November 3, 2018 - Lakeside Band Festival
WORLD PREMIERE - After the Picture Show, Bill Connor
with the New Century Saxophone Quartet

October 25-30, 2018 - Carthage Wind Orchestra
Fall Tour - Toccata for Toy Trains, E. Bernstein & Silent Shorts, Andrew Boysen

May 18, 2018 - Carthage Concert Band
WASBE Commission Premiere, Shubaduba, by Dana Wilson

March 1-6, 2018 - Carthage Wind Orchestra
Silent Movie Midwestern Tour - "THE GENERAL"
Music by James Barnes, with civil war music arrangements by Dick Baller & John P. Paynter

December 4, 2017 Carthage Wind Orchestra and Guests
Carthage in Chicago Holiday Concert - Symphony Center

November 17-18, 2017 - Iowa All State Band

September 30, 2017 - Carthage Wind Orchestra
WORLD PREMIERE -- this is most certainly true - James M. Stephenson
commissioned by the Lutheran Colleges and Universities for the 500th Anniversary of the Lutheran Church