The Wind Ensemble performs music from both hemispheres, including a virtuosic concerto featuring UMass Professor of Oboe, Fredric T. Cohen.

Orient et Occident (1869) - Saint-Saens (Jose Ignacio Blesa Lull, graduate conductor)

Concerto for Oboe (1981) - Shen (Fredric T. Cohen, oboe)

Blue Shades (1997) - Ticheli