The Bethel College Wind Ensemble closes out the school year tonight at 7 p.m. in Krehbiel Auditorium in Luyken Fine Arts Center.

The program is free and open to the public, with a freewill offering taken to support music study and performance at Bethel College.

The concert will also be livestreamed on Bethel’s YouTube channel.

Joel Boettger directs the Wind Ensemble.

On the program is “Jinx” by Ryan George; “Chorale and Alleluia” by Howard Hanson; “Tricycle” by Andrew Boyson Jr.; “Dusk” by Stephen Bryant; and “Havana Nights” by Randall Standridge.

Several of the pieces are recent commissions for specific bands and/or festivals. All but the Hanson, which premiered in 1954, are 21st-century compositions.

Wind Ensemble personnel are: Angelika Donaldson, Highland, Ill., Halle Krehbiel, Hesston, and Kenna Graber, flutes; Peter Buller, Inman, oboe; Josh Kennell, Newton, Emil Benavides, Stockton, and Jill Gatz, clarinets; Leah Fast, Moundridge, bass clarinet; Eli Regier, Newton, and Bryce Wilson, Sterling, saxophones; Phillip Balzer, Hurley, S.D., and Kayla Newman, Halstead, trumpets; Julianna Schrag, Goessel, Elizabeth Alderfer, Goessel, Daniel Kaufman, Moundridge, and Dylan Yoder, Wichita, horns; Jerod Kaufman, Moundridge, and Christopher Strecker, Goessel, trombones; Trae Gehring, Pretty Prairie, and Caleb Cushman, Keystone Heights, Fla., tubas; Christina Liu, D.M.A., assistant professor of music, piano; and Rachel Geyer, Oxford, Iowa, and Brad Shores, instructor of music, percussion.

The Wind Ensemble manager is Christopher Strecker and music librarian is Emma Beachy, Kalona, Iowa.

Bethel is a four-year liberal arts college founded in 1887 and is the oldest Mennonite college in North America. Known for academic excellence, Bethel ranks at #15 in the Washington Monthly list of “Best Bachelor’s Colleges” and #31 in U.S. News & World Report, Best Regional Colleges Midwest, both for 2021-22. Bethel was the only Kansas college or university selected for the American Association of College & Universities’ 2021 Institute on Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation, and has been named a TRHT Campus Center. For more information, see www.bethelks.edu