Two Bands, One Mission
Verona Area Concert Bands (VACB) provide opportunities for community members to make music. Through regular rehearsals and concerts in the Verona, Wisconsin area, VACB educates, inspires and entertains participating musicians and audiences alike. We aim for high musical and technical standards, perform works for concert band from many musical genres, and support a vision of music‐making as a lifelong activity.
VACB Is Growing!
We are excited to announce that as of Fall of 2024, VACB has expanded from a single band to two bands: an auditioned Wind Symphony and a non-auditioned Concert Band!
We have been thrilled with the high level of interest in participating! Since our founding, it has been our mission to provide opportunities for community members to make music.
With this expansion, are once again able to provide opportunities to everyone who would like to play with us!
Mystery and Majesty
May
15
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov arr. Erik Leidzen
Procession of the Nobles from “Mlada”
VACB Concert Band
Dmitri Shostakovich arr. H. Robert Reynolds
Prelude No. 14
VACB Concert Band
Lindsay Bronnenkant
Tarot
VACB Concert Band
Samuel Barber
Commando March
VACB Concert Band
Benjamin Britten, arr. Jan Bach
The Courtly Dances from Gloriana
VACB Wind Symphony
Richard Wagner trans. Lucien Cailliet
Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral from “Lohengrin”
VACB Wind Symphony
John Mackey
The Frozen Cathedral
VACB Wind Symphony
About the VACB
Verona Area Concert Bands is comprised of two all-volunteer wind bands that each present four concerts per year. Rehearsing year‐round under the direction of Music Director and Principal Conductor Eric Anderson and Associate Conductor Dan Joosten, VACB bands perform a wide range of repertoire from concert band classics to transcriptions and contemporary compositions of the wind band repertoire.
Founded in 2010, the Verona Area Concert Bands proudly enjoy the enthusiastic support of musicians and audience members from the Verona and Madison, Wisconsin area.