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.
About the Director
Since 2018, Maestro Gerard Morris has served as conductor and artistic director of the esteemed Tacoma Concert Band. Morris’s conducting credits include appearances at The Midwest Clinic, Colorado Music Festival at Chautauqua, Steamboat Strings Music in the Mountains Summer Music Festival, College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) Western/Northwestern Divisional Conference, Washington Music Educators Association (WMEA) State Conference, and California Music Educators Association (CMEA) Bay Section Conference, and with honor ensembles across the United States and abroad.