Founded in 1985, the Dallas Wind Symphony (DWS) fills an important niche in the live music landscape in America.  With its distinctive instrumentation of only woodwinds, brass, and percussion, its is an amalgam of the British brass band and American town band legacies.

The wind symphony’s repertoire is astonishingly vast, featuring works from such varied composers as Fauré, Milhaud, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Mozart, and Hindemith, to name a few.  DWS also boasts an impressive discography of 14 releases; it is arguably the preeminent interpreter of the wind music of composer Gustav Holst, having recorded the only complete collection of those compositions, and with Holst’s original instrumentation.