2025 Noma Winds
“Youth are the Winds of Change”
Our Mission
NOMA WINDS offers Sonoma County wide high school and middle school instrumentalists an opportunity for a rich cultural and educational experience. Music students currently enrolled in a band program or those who don’t have a program at their school are welcome. All recently graduated high school wind, brass, and percussionists are also welcome. NOMA WINDS is not an Honor Band. We are a service learning, community outreach program that offers additional opportunities for instrumentalists to broaden their music education.
NOMA WINDS participants will engage in a full Ensemble Performance experience, as well as Masterclasses and Sectional Coaching provided by the finest Sonoma State University Music Education majors and pre-professionals currently enrolled in the California Teacher Credential Program for Music Education.
Repertoire will include works that are relevant, new, classic, reachable, and challenging.
- No Audition
- No Fee
- Students must provide their own instrument.
NOMA WINDS WILL TAKE PLACE ONLY IN THE FALL SEMESTER THIS YEAR
Season V
Weekly-Wednesdays 6:00 – 7:40 p.m. at the Green Music Center Room 1028
Consistent attendance is required.
Rehearsal Schedule for the Season
Wednesday, September 4
Wednesday, September 11
Wednesday, September 18
NO REHEARSAL Wednesday, September 25
Wednesday, October 2
Wednesday, October 9
Wednesday, October 16
Wednesday, October 23
Wednesday, October 30
Wednesday, November 6
Wednesday, November 13
Wednesday November 20
NO REHEARSAL Wednesday, November 27 THANKSGIVING
Wednesday December 4
Performance
Wednesday December 11, Concert at the Green Music Center
- 6:00 Student Reporting Time GMC 1028
- 6:15 Walk to Weill Hall (Bring everything to Green Room)
- 6:30 Warm Up Quick Run Through and Sound Check
- 7:00 Hall Opens
- 7:30 Concert Begins
“We are Music Educators creating a connection with Service Learning, Teacher Preparation, and a Sustainable Musical Connection to the Community of Sonoma.”
- Professor Kim Mieder, Director of Noma Winds