Jeff Scott is a distinguished horn player known for his exceptional talent and contributions to the world of brass music. He recently showcased his skills at the World Class Brass All-Stars concert, held at the prestigious Stevens Center, where he performed alongside renowned brass virtuosos such as Adam Rapa, Matt Niess, and Oystein Baadsvik. This exhilarating event featured a remarkable program, including the world premiere of Kaleidoscope by Peter Noll, commissioned by the Piedmont Wind Symphony, as well as Dmitri Shostakovich's Festive Overture and Kevin Day's Concerto for Wind Ensemble. Under the direction of Music Director Mark A. Norman, the concert celebrated the artistry and power of brass instruments, leaving a lasting impression on the audience. With a commitment to excellence and a passion for music, Jeff Scott continues to be a prominent figure in the brass community. He is poised to take on new projects that promise to further elevate his artistic journey, making him an artist to watch in the coming years.

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† Co-Commissioned by the Kayden Music Commissioning Program at Juilliard Pre-College and Interlochen Center for the Arts

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Pre-College Orchestra

Lincoln Center

Celebrating their 15th year as “a sonically daring ensemble who specializes in performing new works with charisma and integrity” (BBC Music Magazine), Akropolis has “taken the chamber music world by storm” (Fanfare). As the first reed quintet to twice grace the Billboard Charts (2021, 2022), the untamed band of 5 reed players and entrepreneurs are united by a shared passion: to make music that sparks joy and wonder.

Akropolis Reed Quintet

United Methodist Church Ridgecrest

This performance is free and open for general seating

The Tri-States Horn Day Guest Recital featuring Tricia and Thomas Jostlein and Yeon-Kyung Kim, piano with Jena Gardner and the WIU Horns and Randall Faust, guest horn

Western Illinois University

Romantic Rachmaninoff

Lucas Theatre For the Arts

Tales And Tributes

Sarasota Opera House

Tales and tributes come to life in vibrant musical colors. The teenage Richard Strauss pays homage to Mozart and Mendelssohn in his strikingly original E-flat Serenade for Winds. Subtitled “A Romance,” Ralph Vaughan Williams’s bittersweet The Lark Ascending brings pastoral innocence to life through rhapsodic solos that sound deceptively simple. Jeff Scott’s Trail of Tears tells the story of his great-great-grandfather, of Cherokee descent, who was among the 60,000 Native Americans forcibly ejected from their homes in the 19th century. Written in 1876 and bearing the dedication “For My Nation,” Antonín Dvořák’s Quintet in G Major adds double bass to the traditional string quartet, opening leagues of musical depth to the work that helped launch his international career.

Festival faculty, fellows, and the Borromeo String Quartet join forces for music separated by time yet linked by raw emotion, startling innovation, and inspiring creativity. Festival faculty Jeff Scott’s Passion for Bach and Coltrane proceeds from the opening of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations and ventures boldly down unexpected avenues. Jeffrey Kahane plays the role of keyboard maverick in Bach’s thrilling Brandenburg Concerto No. 5.

Bach And Beyond

Please note that this concert was originally intended to take place outdoors. However, because of the weather forecast for Saturday, we will move this concert indoors. There is limited seating. Seating will be available on a first-come, first served basis. Doors open at 2:30 PM.

American Dreams Pop-up Concert #1

Morris-Jumel Mansion

Charles Gaines’ Manifestos 4: The Dred and Harriet Scott Decision is a performance-based installation in which Gaines transforms the original text of the landmark 1857 U.S. Supreme Court case of Dred Scott vs. Sanford, which denied U.S. citizenship to people of African ancestry. Many see the ruling as one of the most controversial decisions of the Supreme Court, authorizing racism and irrevocably altering the course of the country’s social, cultural, and political evolution.

Manifestos 4: The Dred and Harriet Scott Decision

Walt Disney Concert Hall

No other quintet has forged such a unique and revolutionary path through the chamber music landscape as the Imani Winds. The ensemble embraces traditional chamber music repertoire while remaining devoutly committed to promoting diversity in the arts. Celebrating over two decades of music making, Imani Winds is recognized for its dynamic playing, adventurous programming, outreach endeavors, and efforts to commission works from new voices that reflect historical events and today’s world. The program features the diversity of American composers and includes a Kennedy Center co-commission by Shawn Okpebholo.

Imani Winds

Kennedy Center

Brothers Anthony and Demarre McGill have achieved a phenomenal level of success in the classical music world. The only siblings ever to win the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, Anthony was appointed the principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic, and Demarre is the principal flutist of the Seattle Symphony. The Grammy Award winning Catalyst Quartet and harpist Charles Overton join these two outstanding wind musicians for a program that encompasses new works by Jeff Scott and Brian Raphael Nabors and Ravel’s dazzling Introduction et Allegro.

Catalyst Quartet

American Philosophical Society

A performance by the Oberlin College Choir and the Oberlin Chamber Singers conducted by Gregory Ristow '01 in Warner Concert Hall. This program features a new work by Associate Professor of Horn Jeff Scott.

Concert: Oberlin College Choir and Oberlin Chamber Singers

Oberlin College

The Oberlin-alumni founded woodwind quintet Imani Winds collaborates with cellist Seth Parker Woods, pianist Cory Smythe, and actor Michael Braugher '14 in a program anchored by Jeff Scott’s Fallen Petals of Nameless Flowers, which tells the stories of four Michiganders who were sentenced to life without parole as juveniles.

Imani Winds with cellist Seth Parker Woods, pianist Cory Smythe, and actor Michael Braugher '14

The Oberlin Orchestra, conducted by Raphael Jiménez, features Oberlin Conservatory student musicians performing concert works for our largest ensemble. This concert includes a composition by Associate Professor of Horn Jeff Scott and features Associate Professor of Cello Dmitry Kouzov.

Concert: Oberlin Orchestra

Join us for an unparalleled musical experience at the "World Class Brass All-Stars" concert, happening on Friday, November 3, at the prestigious Stevens Center. This event promises to be an exhilarating celebration of the finest brass talents from across the globe, delivering what is set to be the most memorable brass concert you've ever attended.

The evening will feature a remarkable lineup, including the world premiere of "Kaleidoscope" by Peter Noll, commissioned especially for this event by the Piedmont Wind Symphony. Additionally, the program includes Dmitri Shostakovich's "Festive Overture" with antiphonal brass, and Kevin Day's "Concerto for Wind Ensemble," all under the baton of Mark A. Norman, Music Director and Conductor of the Piedmont Wind Symphony.

Highlighting the concert are performances by renowned brass virtuosos: Adam Rapa on trumpet, Jeff Scott on horn, Matt Niess on trombone, and Oystein Baadsvik on tuba. Their exceptional talent and passion for music promise to bring a new level of excitement and artistry to the stage.

The event will take place at the Stevens Center, located at 405 4th St NW, Winston-Salem, NC 27101. Don't miss this spectacular showcase of brass music at its finest. Secure your tickets now and be part of a musical journey that celebrates the power and beauty of brass instruments like never before.

World Class Brass All-Stars

Stevens Center

For over two decades, the twice Grammy nominated Imani Winds has led both a revolution and evolution of the wind quintet through their dynamic playing, adventurous programming, imaginative collaborations, and outreach endeavors that have inspired audiences of all ages and backgrounds. We are thrilled to officially welcome them to Tippet Rise for their concert debut, having had the privilege of collaborating with them on recording and performance film projects over the past few years. In this special outdoor performance at the Domo by Ensamble Studio, members Brandon Patrick George (flute), Toyin Spellman-Diaz (oboe), Kevin Newton (horn), Mark Dover (clarinet), and Monica Ellis (bassoon) will perform their program titled Black and Brown, which celebrates composers of color including Jeff Scott, Paquito D’Rivera, and Wayne Shorter. The program also features works written for Imani Winds: Reena Esmail’s The Light is the Same, commissioned by The Lied Center of Kansas and premiered in 2017, and Julio Medaglia’s Belle Epoque en Sud-America, commissioned by the La Jolla Music Society, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Da Camera of Houston, and the Library of Congress, which premiered in 2006.

Tippet Rise Art Center

Music Niagara Festival

Ironwood Cider House

Ottawa Chamberfest

Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre

Students perform works at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music as part of Orchestra of St. Luke’s Chamber Music Mentorship Program’s Young Artists Series.

Young Artist Series

The DiMenna Center for Classical Music

Akropolis Reed

LowDown

Tulsa Performing Arts Center

From Caroline Shaw to Duke Ellington, experience a program over the holiday weekend that highlights the wide range of sound and diversity of music from the United States in the 20th and 21st centuries. Sandbox composer-in-residence Viet Cuong will debut a new work in a celebratory culmination of his inaugural residency with the orchestra. An SPCO staple, Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, rounds out this eclectic program of music from the U.S

Barber’s Adagio for Strings

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

The Carnegie Mellon University Chamber Series brings together members of the CMU Faculty and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for outstanding music making in an intimate space.

Carnegie Mellon Chamber Series: An evening with the Akropolis Reed Quintet

Carnegie Mellon University

Who doesn't love this soft, sometimes radiant, sometimes dull, murmuring sound of the brass instruments? But you don't have to go to a church or to Wagner's "Parsifal" to enjoy it - neither of which would be a bad choice, of course. In this chamber concert, it can be experienced almost directly and without distracting ornamentation. Trumpet, horn, trombone. These are all the ingredients for a brass concert that promises to be a delight for the ears thanks to proven musicians and numerous exciting, rarely heard composers. Just one example: the piece "Crossing Barriers" by the French composer Jeff Scott, which actually overcomes obstacles by turning to the African circle dance near the equator.

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Events

Upcoming events

Feb 13, 2025

Carnegie Mellon Chamber Series: An evening with the Akropolis Reed Quintet · Carnegie Mellon University School of Music

Mar 30, 2025

Cross-border · Göttinger Symphonieorchester

Past events

Nov 22, 2024

Pre-College Orchestra · The Juilliard School

Nov 3, 2024

Akropolis Reed Quintet · Ridgecrest Chamber Music Society

Future and recently performed repertoire

Horn in Concerto for Wind Ensemble by Day

Piedmont Wind Symphony

Horn in Passion for Bach and Coltrane by Scott

Sarasota Music Festival

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