Philadelphia Brass
Classical Brass Quintet
Saturday, November 13, 2021, 7:30 pm
Culpeper County High School Auditorium
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Philadelphia Brass was formed in 1988 by professional musicians of
Eastern Pennsylvania to pursue their common goals: performing the
best of brass quintet literature of all periods and styles, and
educating the public to the pleasures, subtleties, and complexities
of chamber music. It has collaborated in performances with bands,
choruses, organists and dancers. It has performed educational
programs for grade-school children, college students, and adults of
all ages, coached grade school instrumentalists and taught a master
class for the brass students of Julliard.
Critics and public alike have enthusiastically praised the appealing diversity of
repertoire, technical virtuosity, humorous and informative
educational programs, and superb musicality of the ensemble. The
ensemble’s playing has been praised as "artistry of the highest
caliber" and "dazzling technique" by presenters. Its master classes
have been called "excellent and sensitively handled" and the
esteemed American composer Daniel Pinkham has written that
Philadelphia Brass is "the most artistic brass quintet before the
public today".
The ensemble has toured extensively in the Eastern,
Southern, Mid-western United States, and abroad. Daniel Pinkham’s
"Creation of the World", a work for brass, organ, choir, and narrator
co-commissioned by Philadelphia Brass and 13 presenters across the
country, was premiered by Philadelphia Brass in 1995. Other premiers
have included commissioned works by David Diamond, J.A.C. Redord,
Dick Hyman and Paul Salerni.
Philadelphia Brass has produced five
CDs: "Renaissance and Baroque", "Joan Lippincott and Philadelphia
Brass", "Christmas", "Christmas in the Grand Tradition", "The
Anniversary Album", and is featured in Family Portrait and Smoky
Mountain Fanfare, two pieces on the new Summit Records CD, “David
Sampson - Notes from Far Away Places”. For 25 years Philadelphia
Brass performed as the resident brass quintet for the First
Presbyterian Church of Bethlehem, PA, Greg Funfgeld, Music Director,
as well as with the Bach Choir of Bethlehem on two recordings,
"Christmas In Bethlehem Volumes 2 and 3". As of this season we are
delighted to begin a new chapter as Ensemble-in-Residence for the
Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, Bryn Mawr, PA, with Music Director
Dr. Michael Diorio.
PB has conducted numerous educational programs
including residencies at Lehigh University, Villanova University,
Elizabethtown College and has played benefit performances for
Habitat for Humanity, Cure Autism Now and the Chesapeake Bay
Foundation. One of the unique strengths of Philadelphia Brass is the
palpable sense of respect, affection and musical enjoyment among its
members. This allows the players to perform with exceptional
flexibility and cohesiveness, and enhances the ensemble’s appeal to
audiences of all ages.
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