Symphonic Band

The Symphonic Band is the most advanced instrumental concert ensemble at Fort Walton Beach High School.  The band has a history of performing music literature at the highest levels while consistently earning the highest assessment ratings at district, regional and state performances.  
Past repertoire includes​:  Arnold - Four Scottish Dances, Peterloo, Barnes - Third Symphony - finale, Borodin - Polovetsian Dances, Brahms - Academic Festival ove, Symphony no 1 mvt. 1, Chance - Incantation & Dance, Elgar - Enigma Variations, Ellerby - Paris Sketches, Glinka - Russlan & Ludmilla ove., Gomes - Il Guarany ove., Grainger - Irish Tune & Shepherd's Hey, Lads of Wamphrey, Gumsuckers, Colonial Song, Molly on the Shore, Hindemith - March from the Symphonic Metamorphosis, Jacob - Music for a Festival, Jenkins - American ove., Kabelevsky - Colas Breugnon ove, Kozhevnikov - Symphony no. 3 "Slavyanskaya", Lalo - Le Roi D'ys ove., Liszt - Les Preludes, Maslanka - Give Us This Day, Mendelssohn - Fingal's Cave, Moussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain, Nelson - Rocky Point Holiday, Savanah River Holiday, Nicolai - Merry Wives of Windsor, Offenbach - La Belle Helene, Persichetti - Divertimento for Band, A. Reed - Armenian Dances pt 1, Othello, Three Revelations from the Lotus Sutra mt 1, La Fiesta Mexicana (1&3), Rimsky-Korsakov - Capriccio Espagnol, Rossini - William Tell ove., Marche Militaire Francaise, Shostakovich - Festive Overture, Symphony no 5 finale, R. Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier Waltz Fantasia, Don Juan, Sullivan - Pineapple Poll Ballet Suite, Tchaikowsky - Romeo & Juliet, Symphony no 4 finale, Symphony no 6 mvt 1, Ticheli - Blue Shades, Symphony no. 2 finale, Verdi - La Forza Del Destino ove., Wagner - Rienzi ove. 

Concert Band

​The Concert Band membership is generally comprised of the younger less experienced members of the band program.   For most students this ensemble serves a bridge from the Middle School level to the Symphonic Band.  The band has been rated at the highest levels for it's performances at the District and State Levels. 
Past repertoire includes: Arnold - Sarabande & Polka, Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo,  Carter - Overture for Winds, Davis - Songs of the British Isles, Rhenish Folk Festival, Songs of Wales, Chance - Variations on a Korean Folk Song, DeHaan - Ammerland, Giannini - Fantasia, Gounod - Te Deum, Grainger - Harvest Hymn, Grundman - Fantasy on English Hunting Songs, An Irish Rhapsody, A Scottish Rhapsody, Two Irish Songs, Welsh Rhapsody, American Folk Rhapsody's 1,2&3, Holsinger - On A Hymnsong of Philip Bliss, McBeth - Grace Preludium, Mozart - Ave Verum Corpus, Reinecke - Prelude to Act V "King Manfred", Root - Polly Oliver, Strommen - Cumberland Cross, Stuart - A Hymn for Band, Vaughn Williams - Well Met, My Own True Love, Vinson - Nettleton, Wiley - Old Scottish Melody, Bizet - The Pearl Fishers Ove., Brahms - Blessed are They, Carter - Praise Variants, Symphonic Overture, Overture in Eb, Farmer - The Silent Hills of My Childhood, Frank - Panis Angelicus, Haydn - Armida Overture, Karrick - Songs of Old Kentucky, LaPlante - American Riversongs, In The Forrest of the King, Mendelssohn - Two Selections from Elijah, Mozart - Marriage of Figaro Overture, Il Re Pastore ove., Pierne - In The Church, Reed - Festival Prelude, Nocturne Op 9 no 2, Persichetti - Pageant, Sheldon - Chantey's, Manatee Lyric Overture, Sparke - Mandalen Landscapes, Ticheli - Amazing Grace, Cajun Folk Songs,  Sweelink - Ballo Del Granduca

​Jazz Ensemble

Indoor Percussion Ensemble