Wind Ensemble Concert on Dec. 12 in Albion will feature music educators

Provided photo: The Music Educators Wind Ensemble is shown performing at the Eastman Theater. The group will perform in Albion on 7 p.m. on Dec. 12 at the Middle School Auditorium. They will be joined by students from Albion.

ALBION – The Music Educators Wind Ensemble of the Eastman Community Music School will perform a 7 p.m. concert on Dec. 12 at the Albion Middle School Auditorium.

This concert also will include Albion High School Wind Ensemble led by director Michael Thaine.  This side-by-side concert will includes musical selections from both ensembles, plus several pieces performed by the joined groups under the direction of Thaine.

There will be 100-plus instrumentalists on the Albion Middle School stage. The concert is free and open to the public.

The Music Educators Wind Ensemble was formed in 2013 by director Bill Tiberio. MEWE performs four to five concerts annually in the greater Rochester area including a summer concert held at Kodak Hall in the Eastman Theater. The group is made up of area music educators plus other accomplished instrumentalists from various professions.

Tiberio is an instrumental music teacher in Fairport High School teaching concert band, jazz band and chamber woodwind ensembles. He also conducts jazz and wind ensembles at the University of Rochester and jazz bands at Ithaca College.

Tiberio is a frequent guest conductor for concert bands and jazz ensembles throughout New York State.  He has received numerous honors and awards including the RPO Music Educator Award in April, 2003.  Bill is active as a professional woodwind player in the Rochester area.

This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by GO Art!