The Quad City Wind Ensemble's (QCWE) Spring Concert will be performed on Saturday, May 10th at 7:30pm.  The concert will feature 2014 winner of the Charles B. DCamp Young Performers' Competition, Gabrielle Hartman, bassoon.  Location for the performance is the Allaert Auditorium at the Galvin Fine Arts Center on the St. Ambrose campus.  Admission in $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and FREE for all students through 12th grade.  See attached poster for details.

Bassoonist Hartman, a sophomore at Muscatine High School, will perform the first movement of Mozart's Bassoon Concerto with the QCWE.  Second place winner of the 2014 DCamp Young Performers' Competition went to Jacob Nishimura, a sophomore alto saxophonist from Iowa City West High School.  Third place winner was tuba player Donovan Klutho, a freshman at Bettendorf High School.

Themed "Oh, The Places We've Been", the concert includes selections chosen by QCWE members from repertoire recently performed.  Selections from this concert will also be performed during the QCWE performance at the Iowa Bandmasters Association (IBA) 2014 Conference May 15. The conference takes place at the Downtown Marriott in Des Moines, Iowa.

The IBA includes a membership of over 1,000, most of whom are directors of school bands.  It is one of the largest and most active of all state bandmaster organizations in the country.  Its driving force has kept good bands and good band music thriving in communities of all sizes through the state of Iowa.

The QCWE was founded in 1987 by Dr. Charles B. DCamp of St. Ambrose University, and has become one of the finest adult bands in the nation. In 2012 the QCWE was the Community Division winner of The American Prize in Band/Wind Ensemble Performance.  For additional information, please visit www.qcwindensemble.org, or http://www.facebook.com/qcwindensemble