Our 2023/24 Season features a remarkable number of inaugural performances by the Band. In total, fifteen works will receive their Northshore Concert Band premiere. Our season opens on Sunday, October 29, 2023, with an evening performance at the McGrath Family Performing Arts Center in Wilmette, with Treats & Tricks. You won’t want to miss this special chilling and delightful concert exploring magic, mystique, and transfiguration through music. The three works in this program that will receive their first NCB performance are Joe Hisaishi’s Howl’s Moving Castle (arranged by Yo G ..read more

  Join the Northshore Concert Band for our 2023/24 Season and immerse yourself in a captivating symphonic journey exploring transformation and transfiguration in music! Our 68th season begins with Treats & Tricks, a mesmerizing survey of Halloween’s magic and mystique, featuring pillars of the wind band repertoire, alluring melodies from the silver screen, and selections from Gustav Holst’s The Planets. Join us in February as we celebrate our 20th annual Lifetime of Music concert with compositions that have transformed over time into fascinating music for winds, including Paul Hindem ..read more

  Photo credit: Todd Rosenberg David Roush has joined the Northshore Concert Band as our new Business and Operations Manager.   David is a Doctoral Assistant in Wind Conducting at Northwestern University. Get to know him in this mini-interview and be sure to say hello when you see him at our 2023/24 Season-opening concert, Treats & Tricks, on October 29, 2023. Please tell us a bit about your journey in music and in life. I am originally from Mahomet, Illinois, and attended Mahomet-Seymour High School. It was during my junior and senior years that I decided to major in music in ..read more

  Our "What I Did on My Summer Vacation" series continues with an all-horn edition! Ryan Sedgwick (horn) had an unusually eventful summer this year beginning with a celebration of the completion of his MBA. Taking advantage of his employer’s sabbatical benefit, Ryan spent 7 weeks traveling around Europe, alternating travel companions between his father, his husband, and fellow NCB horn player Jennifer Young. His travel spots included Berlin, Munich, Salzburg, Strasbourg, Paris, Versailles, Cologne, Hamburg, the Altmark region of eastern Germany, central Germany, and the medieval college t ..read more

  Our "What I Did on My Summer Vacation" series continues with two NCB trombonists! Joe Schorer (trombone) and his wife Millie traveled to the Galapagos Islands and the Amazon rainforest. He attended a Chicago White Sox/LA Angels baseball game (with Shohei Otani pitching) while visiting their son Max, his wife Sara, and their daughter Lily in southern LA. Closer to home Joe and a 9-year-old trumpet player were the band in the Northbrook July 4th parade! Brad Say (trombone) traveled to Kenya, Africa for two weeks this summer. Along with members of his church, Brad ran a vacation bible ..read more

With summer drawing to a close it’s time again to share some "What I Did on My Summer Vacation" photos from NCB members. This summer Janet Jesse (clarinet) traveled to Banff and the Canadian Rockies, then Northern Minnesota. She also attended a concert in a friend’s backyard and heard Mickey Dolenz from The Monkees. Janet says that while he is 78 he has not lost his chops! In August, her travels continue as she is off on a Viking cruise around Iceland. Kendra Gohr (euphonium) traveled to Alaska during her summer vacation. This amazing family vacation celebrated her parent’s 50th annive ..read more

  Over the years the Northshore Concert Band name has evolved but our commitment to making a substantial contribution to musical life through musical excellence, promoting wind music, leadership in community music, and commitment to music education has remained constant. In 1956 Northshore Concert Band was founded as the Northbrook American Legion Community Concert Band, holding its first rehearsal at the Geo. W. Benjamin American Legion Post No. 791 in Northbrook, IL. In 1958, the group is renamed the Northbrook Community Band. In 1960 the Band’s name was changed to the Wilmette Communi ..read more

  Over the years the Northshore Concert Band name has evolved but our commitment to making a substantial contribution to musical life through musical excellence, promoting wind music, leadership in community music, and commitment to music education has remained constant. In 1956 Northshore Concert Band was founded as the Northbrook American Legion Community Concert Band, holding its first rehearsal at the Geo. W. Benjamin American Legion Post No. 791 in Northbrook, IL. In 1958, the group is renamed the Northbrook Community Band. In 1960 the Band’s name was changed to the Wilmette Communi ..read more

  On June 4, 2023, we performed American Celebration, the final concert of our 2022/23 Season. In addition to performing music that celebrated all things American, we recognized and celebrated three members of the Northshore Concert Band family with The Director’s Award. The Director’s Award is presented by the Artistic Director of NCB to members exhibiting strong musical leadership, professionalism, and contributions to the ensemble. It was last bestowed on a Band member in 2019 so this year NCB Artistic Director Mallory Thompson presented 3 awards. Congratulations to this year’s recipie ..read more

  Pictured left to right: Gregory Glover, Dan DiCesare, Paul Bauer, Karen Mari, Ken Preuss, R. Douglas Wright, Bryan Tipps, Brad Say, and Max Mollenkamp. Not shown: Joseph Schorer On Monday, May 22, the NCB trombone section held its sixth annual master class. Leading the master class was R. Douglas Wright, the Minnesota Orchestra’s principal trombone since 1995. In addition to his Minnesota Orchestra performances, since 2005 Wright has been performing concerts around the world with the World Orchestra for Peace and teaches master classes in the United States and abroad. He has serve ..read more