Thursday, April 2, 2026
University of the Pacific's Wind Band Festival is a non-competitive, non-rated festival open to high school bands. Participating bands will receive a video recording and an audio feedback on their performance. Additionally, they will have a 30-minute clinic from one of the festival's clinicians and instrument-specific clinics with Pacific faculty. The festival will conclude with a concert featuring Pacific Wind Bands.
$400—group registration fee
Each registered group will perform for 25 minutes. Each performance will be followed by a feedback session.
All performances take place in Faye Spanos Concert Hall.
| 9:15 am | Lathrop High School |
| 9:45 am | Pitman High School |
| 10:15 am | Turlock High School |
| 10:45 am | Franklin High School (Elk Grove) |
| 12–1 pm | INSTRUMENTAL MASTER CLASSES |
| 1:45 pm | Jesuit High School |
| 2:15 pm | Franklin High School (Stockton) |
| 2:45 pm | Laguna Creek High School II |
| 3:15 pm | Scheldon High School |
| BREAK | |
| 4 pm | Johansen High School |
| 4:30 pm | Laguna Creek High School I |
| BREAK | |
| 6:30 pm | Concert: Pacific Wind Bands Tickets are required; all students are free with a valid student ID. |
Murphy will perform Claude T. Smith’s "Fantasia for Alto Saxophone" during the culminating Pacific Wind Bands concert. He is in great demand as an international soloist and clinician, having performed in more than twenty countries worldwide across four continents: North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
The festival will conclude with a concert featuring Pacific Wind Bands directed by Professor Vu Nguyen. Their guests are saxophonist Otis Murphy and Pacific student artists Casey Kim ’27 (marimba) and Edmund Bascon ’27 (clarinet). The featured students are winners of the 2025-26 Conservatory Performance Competition. Bascon is additionally the winner of the 2025-26 Conservatory Composition Competition and his winning work will be performed during the concert.
