2026 Winter Festival
January 30 through February 1, 2026
The Winter Festival is a unique concert honor band festival for high school students. The festival is designed to give participants an outstanding and comprehensive playing experience. Festival participants are chosen through a recorded audition process. Students attending the festival are involved in a variety of musical experiences: an honor band; masterclasses with the Glenn Korff School of Music's talented applied wind and percussion faculty; and a large symphonic band that combines the festival honor band with the University Wind Ensemble.
All Winter Festival events will take place in Westbrook Music Building and Kimball Recital Hall.
The 2026 Winter Festival audition results will be sent to student applicants after December 11, 2025. The email message will be sent to the contact email that applicants provided to us on the application form. Please check your spam folder if a message does not appear in your inbox. Send an email to band@unl.edu and provide us with a non-school email addressif you have not received the results by December 16th (include your full name and instrument). Many school email accounts are blocked from receiving email from outside the school district.
If you have questions after reading this information thoroughly, please email the Band Office or call 402/472-2505.
ACCOMMODATIONS FOR DISABILITIES
The University is committed to providing appropriate accommodations to guests with disabilities. In order to ensure that appropriate arrangements can be made, guests with disabilities who need reasonable accommodations must contact the Band Office at 402-472-2505 at least three weeks prior to their scheduled arrival on campus. Westbrook Music Building is accessible to persons with disabilities.
