Concerts:Indiana State University Wind Symphony
25 February 2021 "Celtic Otherworld"
Nikk Pilato, conductor
Dakota Pedersen, apprentice conductor
- Kirkpatrick Fanfare - Andrew Boysen Jr.
- Welsh Rhapsody, A - Clare Grundman
- Celtic Voyage - Melanie Donahue
- McMorran Suite - Barry Kopetz
- Three Celtic Dances - Brian Balmages
- Lagan Love - Luigi Zaninelli
- Suite on Celtic Folk Songs - Tomohiro Tatebe
4 November 2020 "In Your Light I Reflect..."
Nikk Pilato, conductor
- Everlasting Light - Travis Cross
- Lux Aurumque - Eric Whitacre
- Chasing Sunlight - Cait Nishimura
- Lichtweg/Lightway - Jennifer Jolley
- Meditation on Amen - Roger Zare
- Menlo Park, 1879 - James David
21 April 2020 "Folksongs Around the World"
Nikk Pilato, conductor
- Second Suite in F - Gustav Holst
- Shenandoah - Frank Ticheli
- Norwegian Folk Song Suite - Frank Erickson
- Irish Tune from County Derry - Percy Aldridge Grainger
- Variations on a Korean Folk Song - John Barnes Chance
19 February 2020 "Celebrating Sousa"
Nikk Pilato, conductor
- The Fairest of the Fair - John Philip Sousa
- The Thunderer - John Philip Sousa
- After the Thunderer, from Symphony on Themes of John Philip Sousa - Ira Hearshen
- Three Quotations - John Philip Sousa
- Stars and Stripes Forever - John Philip Sousa
21 November 2019 "Sound and Silence"
Nikk Pilato, conductor
- To Set the Darkness Echoing - Dana Wilson
- 4'33" - John Cage
- Silence Overwhelmed - Brian Balmages
- Echo Chambers - Peter Van Zandt Lane
17 October 2019 "From the Earth to the Moon"
Nikk Pilato, conductor
Roby George, guest conductor
Paul Bro, saxophone
Michael Licari, Christopher Olsen, Julia Heath Reynolds, narrators
- Lift-Off - Roger Zare
- Earth Song - Frank Ticheli
- Words by Moonlight - Nikk Pilato
- Moonscape Awakening - Joni Greene
- Apollo - Brian Balmages
- This Cruel Moon - John Mackey
- Overture to "Voyage to the Moon" - Jacques Offenbach, tr. John R Bourgeois
23 February 2019 "Music Imitates Art"
Nikk Pilato, conductor
Christopher Halstead, apprentice conductor
Angela Reynolds, flute
Jimmy Finnie, vibraphone
Julia Powell, mezzo-soprano
Krista Woodhull, soprano
- Scenes from "The Louvre" - Norman Dello Joio
- Mosaic - Stephen Paulus
- Starry Night - Michael Kallstrom
- Acrostic Song - David Del Tredici, arr. Spede
- Angels in the Architecture - Frank Ticheli
- Sandpaper Ballet - Leroy Anderson
28 February 2019 "By the Numbers"
Nikk Pilato, conductor
- First Suite in E-flat - Gustav Holst, ed. Matthews
- Symphonic Dance No. 2, "The Maskers" - Clifton Williams
- Three Chorale Preludes - William P Latham
- Symphony No. 4 - Andrew Boysen Jr
29 November 2018 "Funnies, Fakes, and Frauds"
Nikk Pilato, conductor
- Military Escort - Harold Bennett, aka Henry Fillmore
- Interruption Overture - Steven Bryant
- Piltdown Man - Sonya Leonore Stahl
- Beethoven Machine, The - Michael Colgrass
- Toccata - attributed to Girolamo Frescobaldi, actually Gaspar Cassadó, arr. Slocum
- Rollo Takes a Walk - David Maslanka
16 October 2018 "She Will Hang the Night With Stars" (a celebration of female composers)
Nikk Pilato, conductor
Angela Reynolds, flute
- Rhythm Stand - Jennifer Higdon
- Malkauns - Lindsay Boyd
- Cape Breton Postcard - Catherine McMichael
- She Will Hang the Night with Stars - Sonya Leonore Stahl, tr. Pilato
- Concertino, Op. 107 - Cécile Chaminade, arr. Wilson
- Elegy for Albinoni - Shelley Hanson
- Letter from Sado - Jodie Blackshaw
- Paper Cut - Alex Shapiro
- Journey Through Orion - Julie Giroux
5 April 2018 "Life and Death"
Nikk Pilato, conductor
Lexie Rich, Apprentice conductor
- Joy Revisited – Frank Ticheli
- The Promise of Living - Aaron Copland , arr. Curnow
- Chant Funéraire – Gabriel Fauré , orch. Moss
- Corsican Litany – Vaclav Nelhybel
- Unending Stream of Life –David Maslanka
15 February 2018 "War and Peace"
Nikk Pilato, conductor
- Epinicion – John Paulson
- Pacem - Robert Spittal
- Sotilasmessu (A Soldier’s Mass) – Einojuhani Rautavaara
- Serenity – Ola Gjeilo
- Symphony No. 1, In Memoriam Dresden, 1945 –Daniel Bukvich
- Hymn to the Fallen – John Williams, tr. Lavender
29 November 2017 "Sea and Sky"
Nikk Pilato, conductor
- Sea Songs – Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Sheltering Sky – John Mackey
- Sea Chanteys – Bill Hoehne
- Wings That Work – Steven Bryant
4 October 2017 "Night and Day"
Nikk Pilato, conductor
- World Is Waiting for the Sunrise, The - Ernest Seitz, arr. Alford/Gore
- On This Bright Morning - David Maslanka
- Daydream - Timothy Mahr
- Little Night and Day Music, A - Samuel Adler
- Dusk - Steven Bryant
- Night Dances - Bruce Yurko
27 April 2017 "Devotionals"
Nikk Pilato, conductor
Kurt Fowler, cello
Abby Layer, apprentice conductor
- Resting in the Peace of His Hands - John Gibson
- Amen! - Frank Ticheli
- Ave Maria - Franz Biebl, arr. Pilato
- Prayer - Michael Schelle
- Give Us This Day (Short Symphony) - David Maslanka
16 February 2017 "Oh, Percy!"
Nikk Pilato, conductor
- Themes from "Green Bushes" - Percy Aldridge Grainger
- Immovable Do, The - Percy Aldridge Grainger
- Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon - Percy Aldridge Grainger
- Walking Tune - Percy Aldridge Grainger
- Mock Morris - Percy Aldridge Grainger
- Two Grainger Melodies - Percy Aldridge Grainger
- Handel in the Strand - Percy Aldridge Grainger
1 December 2016 "Postcards from the Motherland"
Nikk Pilato, conductor
- Abschied der Slawin - Wassily Agapkin
- Folk Dances - Dmitri Shostakovich
- Salvation is Created - Pavel Tchesnokov, arr. Nikk Pilato
- Procession of the Nobles - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, tr. Erik Leidzen
- Russian Christmas Music - Alfred Reed
4 October 2016 "Wu Xing: The Five Phases"
Nikk Pilato, conductor
Roby G. George, guest conductor
Jimmy Finnie, percussion
Alec Branstetter, percussion
- Mother Earth - David Maslanka
- Redwood - Ryan George
- Fire of Eternal Glory - Dmitri Shostakovich, arr. Tim Rhea
- Foundry - John Mackey
- Dancing on Water - Frank Ticheli
- Wu Xing - James Syler