Turn up the volume! Recordings of Kendor’s upcoming jazz charts are available for streaming. You can listen through the hub on our website, or on your favorite streaming
platform by searching “Kendor Jazz Ensemble.”
The Best Just Got Better
For teachers everywhere, Essential Elements has continued as the standard of pedagogy. Its carefully designed curriculum makes student learning efficient, yet fun, at all levels. In addition, Essential Elements continues its innovation with powerful technology-based learning tools, supplementary components, and correlated performance materials.
Let Essential Elements take your students and your program to new levels!
Alfred Releases New Choral Products
Alfred Music is excited to announce the release of new works in the Choral Designs, Alfred Pop, and Lawson-Gould series, offering a rich variety of pieces to inspire and elevate
choirs of all ages and abilities. This collection features exciting openers, heartwarming ballads, vibrant festival pieces, and the latest pop hits. With a mix of voicings, styles, and genres—including original works, folk song arrangements, spirituals, choral classics, and holiday songs—that are perfect for concerts, festivals, and contests.
Discover FJH Publications
Establish solid fundamentals with your ensemble using proven teaching methods, logical sequencing and exciting music with FJH’s comprehensive family of publications.
Get Your Complimentary Copies Today!
The Band Fundamentals Method Book Series is uniquely suited to meet the needs of today’s band students. Over 100,000 young musicians and their band directors have already benefitted from the music reading and tone production focus of this series.
Applying insights gained as an elementary, middle, high school, and college band director coupled with teaching thousands of private lessons, Steve Hedrick has crafted an outstanding series to help students read and play better.
FREE Marching Band Warm-Ups and Drumline Cadences from RSM!
Visit our website to find our FREE Power Marching Band Warm-Ups and 3 Drumline Cadences. This is our small way of saying “Thank you” for supporting our growing company! Randall Standridge Music is happy to offer these FREE resources, along with a host of others, such as: Pomp and Circumstance (Band & Orchestra), Concert Warm-Ups (Band & Orchestra), The Star Spangled Banner, Free Pieces, Christmas Music, and MORE!
Plus, be sure to check out our Brand New Releases below! We hope you LOVE them!
Excelcia Welcomes Band Directors!
Excelcia Music Publishing announces its annual new release of Concert Band music for 2025-2026. Bearing themes of inspiration and optimism, the new release features a variety of works for all levels of skill and musicianship, as well as seasonal, holiday, and contest and festival performance occasions.
Part of this release are professional recordings and ScoreVideos of each piece, as well as accessible digital program notes. These free-to-use resources aid Band Directors while selecting and rehearsing music and can be used to further immerse students in the works that they are learning to play. Professional recordings of the new music are streaming on all major platforms and the publisher’s website.
Wingert-Jones Aspires Higher for 2025-26 with New Works for Concert Band
The latest collection of Concert Band works from Wingert-Jones Publications has arrived and is available now. With the goal of aiding Band Directors in fostering achievement within their ensembles, this catalog includes works for all performance occasions. Accompanying the release of these works is a collection of free-to-use resources that include ScoreVideos and live professional recordings that will be available for streaming and on the publisher’s website. This year, we also present the addition of digital program notes that directors can easily copy from the website and use when creating concert programs.
There’s More to Explore in MakeMusic!
Editor’s Choice Titles
Level-up engagement with outstanding music from favorite composers. Explore our collection of J.W. Pepper’s Editor’s Choice titles, ready for interactive practice with real accompaniment tracks!
Exercises + Soundtracks = FUN!
Experience The Foundations Series by Brian Balmages: essential fundamental skills set to immersive movie soundtrack accompaniments. There’s something for everyone!
Summer Practice Boosters
A little something fun to share with students for the summer:
- Sound Innovations Soloist – encourage independence and confidence in your students with intermediate-level solos. Written by a diverse selection of composers, the solos feature preparatory exercises in MakeMusic Cloud and Sound Advice to improve performance.
Solo Foundations – students can independently work on these fun titles with included prep exercises and two levels of difficulty, all with the epic soundtrack accompaniments that you expect from The Foundations Series!
Travel/Uniforms/Fundraising
NYC Performance Tours for Student Groups
New York is considered by many to be the entertainment, art, financial, fashion and performing arts capital of the world!
No trip to the BIG APPLE is complete without experiencing the many sights and sounds that lend themselves to this city’s greatness. From museums and galleries to Broadway shows and sporting events, an unsurpassed skyline and unlimited unique shopping opportunities, New York is truly an unforgettable experience!
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Take Your Fundraising to the Next Level with This Free Guide
“Fundraising is my favorite part of the job description,” said no educator ever.
But with our free guide to fundraising, we’ll help you make it achievable, authentic and, we daresay, fun! Because, when it’s done right, fundraising can do so much more than pay for the trip – it can create new memories and build stronger bonds within your program.
This 11-page PDF is packed with everything we’ve learned in our 44 years of helping students and educators travel the globe. You’ll learn:
The “what, when and how” of effective fundraising
The game-changing power of new Trip Donations by BRT
How to choose the best fundraising activities for your group
Why all fundraising ideas are not created equal – some are much better than others
How to make parents your fundraising superstars
Leave the Competition in the Past – High Impact Designs for One Season Use
Check out McCormick’s “one season use” uniforms with customized designs to fit your show.
Accessories
Chedeville new Kanter “Opera” Clarinet Model
Chedeville has announced the introduction of the new Chedeville Kanter ‘Opera’ Bb Clarinet mouthpiece designed in collaboration with Jim Kanter. This is their second mouthpiece collaboration with the legendary Hollywood studio musician and famed mouthpiece maker. Building on the tremendous success of the Chedeville Kanter ‘Cinema’ model, the new Kanter ‘Opera’ model features a larger tip opening and is designed for players seeking greater warmth and tonal breadth.
The Chedeville Kanter ‘Opera’ model is the most open facing of the two Chedeville Kanter models, delivering a rich sound with added depth and flexibility across all registers. It provides a responsive feel with a natural sense of resistance, allowing for expressive nuance and dynamic control. This mouthpiece rewards focused air support and musical intention, making it an exceptional choice for players across a variety of musical genres.
The new Chedeville Kanter Opera Clarinet mouthpiece has an MSRP of $350.00 and is available now.
Wenger Has Built an Even Tougher Music Stand
Wenger has built an even tougher music stand! The new Endur takes strength, durability and quality to a new level.
Expanded Popular Series of Capos & Pick Pucks
Already renowned in the music industry for their beautiful capos, like all models in this exquisite series, the new Thalia Fender Series capos bestow an extra layer of grace that elevates beauty, whilst imparting a classy feel and a personal, unique touch of class.
With four prestigious design awards, Thalia Professional Capos are recognized around the globe for precision engineering, with the reverse fulcrum point and quick release design, allowing for a smooth seamless one-handed operation for key changes, or when switching between guitars with full control over how the capo fits on a variety of neck profiles.
Hemke Reeds from Reeds for Less
Frederick L Hemke Saxophone Reeds are hand selected for the saxophonist who desires the ultimate in tonal elegance, response and flexibility. Hemke Saxophone Reeds are made from premium cane for consistent response and playability to benefit all levels of musicians from the beginner to the seasoned professional. The dark tone of Frederick Hemke Alto Sax Reeds is favored by pro players from classical and traditional jazz ensembles. Well-suited design for traditional round-chambered mouthpieces. French filed for freedom of response, especially in the low register, Hemke Reeds make soft attacks easier.
Tune Down. Turn Up.
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Stringjoy Ariel Posen Artist Series Signatures – a custom 14-62 set designed for deep tunings and deeper expression.
Crafted in close collaboration with Ariel himself, this set empowers you to tune your standard scale electric guitar down to B Standard, Open C, and other rich, resonant tunings that have helped Ariel carve out his singular voice as a singer, songwriter, and slide virtuoso.
Instruments
Roland Announces DrumLink Wireless System
New Wireless Trigger Technology for Electronic Drummers That Streamlines Connectivity for Faster Setup and a Cleaner Look. Developed in partnership between Roland and Drum Workshop (DW), DrumLink is a new wireless triggering technology for electronic pads, cymbals, and drum triggers. From Roland V-Drums kits to hybrid acoustic-electronic configurations, the modular DrumLink system streamlines connectivity for faster setup and a cleaner look.
The DrumLink system features two core components: the WT-10 Wireless Trigger Adapter and DH-10 DrumLink Hub. Supported sound sources include the Roland V71, TD-50X, and TD-27 sound modules, SPD-SX PRO Sampling Pad, and the DW Soundworks software instrument. The WT-10 also makes it easy for owners of Drum Workshop’s acoustic-electronic wireless convertible drums to integrate Roland pads within their sets.
Musser Student Xylophone Kit and Practice Pad from Ludwig
The Ludwig LMXYLO2 Student Xylophone Kit is intended for mallet students who take their sound seriously. The Padauk bars are far superior in tone and resonance to the aluminum bars that come standard on most student bell kits. The 2.5-octave scale allows for the most range while remaining extremely portable. The exclusive Ludwig by ProLogix practice pad has a better feel than most traditional tunable pads and is quieter too. The kit includes everything you need to get started on mallet percussion and the rolling carry case allows for easy transport to and from class.
