American Brass Quintet

 

 When the American Brass Quintet gave its first public performance forty years ago, brass chamber music was relatively unknown. That modest debut marked the begining of an international concert career for the ensemble the Newsweek calls "the high priests of brass." In the United States, the Quintet has performed in major concert series in all fifty states including at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Kennedy Center. It has toured throughout Euorpe, Central America and South America, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. It recently 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 Slovalia, and Brno Autumn Festival in the Czech Republic.

The 2002-2003 season will include apperances at Lincoln Center, Wolf Trap, and with orchestras of Instanbul and Ankara, Turkey.

The Quintet has made more than forty-five recordings, the largest body of brass chamber music ever recorded by one ensemble. It has recorded for Albany, Arabesque, BASF, Bridge, Columbia, CRI, Crystal, Cybele, Delos, Folkways, Japan Victor, Musical Heritage, New World, Nonesuch, Serenus, Summit, Titanic, Well-Tempered and others.

The American Brass Quintet has commissioned more than one hundred works for brass quintet including works by William Bolcom, Elliot Carter, Jacob Druckman, David Sampson, Gunther Schuller, and Virgil Thomson. These commissions, together with the ensemble's own editions of Renaissance and Baroque music, and forgotten 19th century brass works, and with its residencies at Juilliard and the Aspen School, have added substantially to the repertoire.

The ensemble has been termed "positively breathtaking" by the New York Times, and "of all the brass quintets, this country's most distinguished" by the American Record Guide.

Read more about the Ameriican Brass Quintet at their web site

www.americanbrassquintet.org
exquisite music - superbly performed