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The
American Brass Quintet will perform in the Barrus
Concert Hall Thursday and Friday, Nov. 13-14, as part of the Center Stage
Performing Arts Series at Brigham Young University-Idaho.
Tickets
are $8 for the general public and $2 for BYU-Idaho students. They can be
purchased at the ticket office in the Manwaring Center,
by calling the BYU-Idaho Ticket Office at 496-2230 or by visiting the
website at www.byui.edu/tickets.
While
at BYU-Idaho, the quintet will also do three days of residency work with
brass students. Dedicated educators as well as performers, the quintet is
in residence at The Juilliard School where they have administered the brass
chamber music program since that program’s inception in 1987, as well
as teaching individual students. Since 1970, the quintet has administered
the brass chamber music program at the Aspen Music Festival in the summer.
When
the American Brass Quintet gave its first public performance more than 42
years ago, brass chamber music was relatively unknown to concert audiences.
That modest debut, on December 11, 1960, marked the beginning of an
international concert career for the ensemble that Newsweek calls
“the high priests of brass.”
In
the United States, the quintet has performed on major concert series in all
50 states including at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Kennedy
Center. The quintet’s foreign touring has taken it throughout Europe,
Central and South America, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia.
Among
recent foreign performances, the quintet performed to rave reviews at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, in Japan at the 10th
Anniversary of the Aspen-Japan Festival, at the National Concert Hall in
Taipei, the Orquesta Sinfonica
Carlos Chavez in Mexico City, Bratislava Music Festival in Slovakia, and
Brno Autumn Festival in the Czech Republic.
Since
its inception, the quintet has maintained an extensive recording schedule.
By the end of the 2003-2004 season, the quintet
will have made 50 recordings representing the largest body of serious brass
chamber music ever recorded by one ensemble.
Of
equal importance to the quintet’s recording project is its commissioning
project that now numbers over 100 works for brass quintet. These
commissions, along with the quintet’s own editions of Renaissance and
Baroque music, and premieres of forgotten 19th century brass repertoire,
have firmly established this ensemble’s commitment to the ever
growing field of brass chamber music.
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