Department of
Music

Band Festival 2026 Schedule

 

Band Festival Schedule – March 4–7, 2026
Wednesday, March 4
3:00–5:00pm
Registration — HPAC
Leave instruments in HPAC rehearsal room • Check in to hotel
5:00–6:00pm
Supper — Terrace Café
Name tag w/QR code required for all meals
6:30–7:00pm
Welcome & Worship — HPAC
Max Keller, Department of Music Chair
7:00–8:30pm
Rehearsal — HPAC
Thursday, March 5
7:00–8:00am
Breakfast — Hotel
8:00–8:15am
Worship — HPAC
Mailyn Iribar, AU Music Student
8:15–9:15am
Rehearsal — HPAC
9:15–9:30am
Break
9:30–10:30am
Rehearsal — HPAC
10:30–10:45am
Break
10:45–11:45am
Rehearsal — HPAC
12:00–1:00pm
Lunch — Terrace Café
1:15–2:30pm
Rehearsal — HPAC
2:30–3:00pm
Break & Move to Sectionals
3:00–4:00pm
Sectionals
  • Flutes — Rehearsal Room
  • Oboes — Hallway outside WAUS
  • Clarinets — Lobby
  • Saxophones — Hallway outside rehearsal room
  • Trumpets — Hallway outside performers restrooms
  • Horns — Hallway outside audience restrooms
  • Trombones — South stairwell
  • Low Brass — North stairwell
  • Percussion — Stage
4:00–4:15pm
Break
4:15–4:45pm
Rehearsal — HPAC
5:00–6:00pm
Supper — Terrace Café
7:00–8:00pm
AU Symphony Orchestra Concert — HPAC
8:00–8:30pm
Reception — HPAC Lobby
Friday, March 6
7:00–8:00am
Breakfast — Hotel
8:00–8:15am
Worship — HPAC
Jonathan Pelote, AU Theology/Music Student
8:15–9:15am
Rehearsal — HPAC
9:15–9:30am
Break
9:30–10:30am
Rehearsal — HPAC
10:30–10:45am
Break
10:45–11:45am
Rehearsal — HPAC
12:00–12:30am
Visit Academic Departments — locations around campus
12:30–1:30pm
Lunch — Terrace Café
Academy directors meet in Lincoln Room (do not go through serving line or scan QR code!)
1:45–2:45pm
Rehearsal — HPAC
2:45–3:00pm
Break
3:00–3:45pm
Concert Run-Through — HPAC
4:00–4:45pm
Listen to Piano Recital
4:45–5:00pm
Move Instruments to PMC
5:00–6:00pm
Supper — Terrace Café
7:30–8:30pm
AU Wind Symphony/Choirs Vespers Concert — HPAC
Saturday, March 7
8:00–9:00am
Breakfast — Hotel
Check out of hotel
10:30–11:20am
Sabbath School — PMC Youth Chapel
11:20–11:35am
Warmup — PMC Youth Chapel
11:45–1:00pm
Church Service — PMC
1:00–1:30pm
Move Instruments to HPAC
1:30–2:30pm
Lunch — Terrace Café
3:15–3:30pm
Report to HPAC (Concert Uniform)
3:30–3:45pm
Warm-up Onstage
4:00–5:30pm
Festival Finale Concert — HPAC
2026 Band Festival Schedule
Department of Music