Entering its 45th season, with Conductor and Artistic Director Gerard Morris, the Tacoma Concert Band enjoys a sterling regional, national, and international reputation. With over 60 musicians, this award-winning band brings to life a variety of music, from classical to pop, traditional to modern. While the band has delighted audiences from Ireland to Vienna, Budapest to Madrid and the French Riviera, nowhere does the music sound better than at home in Tacoma.
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The mission of Tacoma Concert Band is to provide the Puget Sound community with a professional quality wind ensemble; to offer a high-quality performance opportunity to local wind and percussion musicians; to support and encourage the region’s school band programs; and to affirm the need for community concert bands within the American music scene.
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Since 2018, Maestro Gerard Morris has served as conductor and artistic director of the esteemed Tacoma Concert Band. Driven by immense passion for teaching, Morris spent nearly two decades as the Director of Bands and Chair of the Winds & Percussion Department at the University of Puget Sound School of Music. Today, he continues to invest in arts education by hosting the Puget Sound Conductors Institute and mentoring the Robert Musser Conducting Fellowship Program.
