The Symphonic Wind Ensemble is a 45 piece wind and percussion ensemble consisting of undergraduate musicians at Southern Arkansas University. This ensemble studies and performs a variety of standard and contemporary literature for winds and percussion. They perform concerts throughout the South during the Spring semester. 

Enrollment in the Symphonic Wind Ensemble requires an audition before the appropriate faculty and permission of the director. The ensemble rehearses four days a week. Rehearsal on Mondays and Wednesdays are from 12:05 pm – 12:55 pm and Tuesdays and Thursdays are from 12:35 pm – 1:55 pm. For further information contact the Director of Bands, J.P. Wilson.