The Wind Ensemble specializes in the performance of outstanding traditional and contemporary literature for concert band and wind ensemble, and presents several concerts on and off campus throughout the year. The Wind Ensemble is open by audition to all Whitworth students in any major who are woodwind, brass, percussion, or string bass instrumentalists. The Wind Ensemble tours every other year with the award-winning Whitworth Jazz Ensemble. Recent tours have taken the ensemble to San Francisco, southern California, and Hawaii. The Whitworth Wind Ensemble made its first concert appearance at the Music Educators National Conference Northwest Divisional Convention in February, 1999.
Sectional rehearsals occur approximately once every other week, as arranged by section leaders.
Saxophone Ensemble Flute Choir Trombone Choir Percussion Ensemble Auditions take place during the first week of classes. Audition sign-ups and music are available the last week of August. 18 Hindemith, Geschwindmarsch Stamp, Fanfare for a New Era Grainger, Lincolnshire Posey Tchesnikov, Salvation is Created Warnaar, Alliances Margaret Wilds, horn soloist Strauss, Serenade , op. In the Spring, was recorded in April 1998, and is now available for purchase through the Whitworth College Music Department and the Whitworth College Bookstore. Music Department scholarship auditions are normally held near the beginning of March.