PhiladelphiaBrass.com
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The Philadelphia Brass
Description
Philadelphia Brass was created in 1988 to perform the finest brass literature of all styles and periods and to promote the understanding and enjoyment of chamber music among audiences of all ages. The quintet has been heard in hundreds of solo performances in venues ranging from bucolic music festivals to the Royal Albert Hall. It has collaborated in performances with orchestras, symphonic bands, instrumental soloists, chamber ensembles, dancers, choruses, orators, and organists. Its “Music to the Schools” program has inspired students from the public schools as well as the elite musicians of Juilliard. Lectures and demonstrations as varied as What Makes a Musical Masterpiece, What Makes Brass Instruments Go and What Makes the Music of Bach Great have brought the pleasures, subtleties, and complexities of chamber music to a diverse public. Philadelphia Brass has conducted institutional and community residencies lasting from a few days to several years.
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 quintet’s playing has been praised as “artistry of the highest calibre ” and “dazzling technique ” by presenters. The press and Public Radio have said of the group’s recitals: “playing that turned the audience into something resembling a cheering section ”, “remarkable music and musicianship”, “cohesiveness seldom heard in live chamber music ”, “scintillating virtuosity ”. 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 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. Other premiers have included commissioned works by David Diamond, J.A.C. Redford, and Dick Hyman. The ensemble has produced three CDs: Renaissance and Baroque, Joan Lippincott and Philadelphia Brass, and Christmas, and has conducted numerous educational programs including residencies at Villanova University, Elizabethtown College, Lehigh University, and Musikfest of Bethlehem, PA, where they were the festival’s Artists in Residence. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Cure Autism Now, and Habitat for Humanity have received the support of Philadelphia Brass benefit performances. The ensemble was awarded recitals at 15 of the Penn State University campuses and was selected by Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour (PennPAT) for its Touring Roster.
Contact
Administrative:
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- Philadelphia PA
- United States 19103
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- +1.8774678639
Registrant:
- Philadelphia Brass
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- Landsdale PA
- United States 19446
