Keystone Wind Ensemble

The Keystone Wind Ensemble is a popular concert band of about 50 players who perform on wind, brass, and percussion instruments. The KWE is unusual in that it performs primarily as a recording entity, with live performance serving as an important though secondary function. Indeed, the stated mission of the KWE upon its founding was to record both traditional and contemporary concert band works for national distribution. The ensemble is sponsored by the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, on whose campus all of its more than 20 commercial recordings have been made. Most of thos...