Tonight’s program invites you into a colorful journey through the worlds of brass and winds—music that sparkles with wit, sings with lyricism, and dances with rhythmic vitality. From French elegance to Broadway romance, from playful miniatures to modernist brilliance, each work offers its own snapshot of character and style, brought vividly to life by the unique voices of the ensemble.

The evening opens with Eugene Bozza’s Sonatine for Brass Quintet, a bright and buoyant work that sparkles with French elegance and wit. Its lively rhythms and warm harmonies showcase the brass in playful conversation, inviting listeners into a world of charm and precision.

Bernstein’s West Side Story, arranged for brass quintet by Jack Gale, bursts with the energy and romance of the Broadway classic. Familiar melodies—tender, fiery, and irresistibly rhythmic—are reimagined through the bold, golden sonorities of the ensemble.

Jacques Ibert’s Cinq pièces en trio (arranged here for flute, clarinet, and bassoon) offers five miniature gems, each a vignette of character and color. From lighthearted dances to lyrical whispers, the music delights in its clarity and humor.

The program concludes with Stravinsky’s Octet for Wind Instruments, a neoclassical masterpiece that blends crisp counterpoint with modernist sparkle. With its inventive forms, rhythmic vitality, and kaleidoscope of timbres, the work closes the evening in a spirit both playful and sophisticated.

EPSG:4326

Opening Night - A Breath of Fresh Air

Scarritt Bennett Center

Temon Birch performs a recital of works by Bitsch, Bourdeau, Bozza and more.

Student Degree Recital: Temon Birch, M.M. Bassoon Recital

University of Maryland

Isai Hernandez performs a recital of works by Takemitsu, Higdon, Ellington and more.

Student Degree Recital: Isai Hernandez M.M. trumpet recital

Amber Bowen-Longino performs a recital of works by Eugene Bozza, Andrea Bocelli and more.

Student Degree Recital: Amber Bowen-Longino B.M. trumpet junior recital

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Join us for our final concert of the CSO’s Chamber Music series at the Library Society. Enjoy engaging repertoire that will feature both classical favorites and modern innovations in an intimate setting. Schubert’s joyous, melodic, and energetic “Trout” piano quintet is enjoyed as one of the most famous chamber works in its genre and is not to be missed!

Schubert’s Trout Quintet

Charleston Library Society

In pursuit of their degrees at SFCM, each student presents a recital that represents their artistry and craft. Student Recitals feature repertoire curated by students with guidance from their faculty instructor.

Ervin Keeling, horn - Second Year Master's Recital

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

A completely different quartet line-up! Anyone looking for an alternative to the usual version of two violins, viola and violoncello or the wind instruments can discover something new - such as the suite for four horns by Eugène Bozza, whose music captures the beauty of his Provençal homeland. Constantin Homilius and the American Kerry Turner, both virtuosos on the full-sounding brass instrument, wrote for the same line-up.

Chamber Concert 3

WDR Funkhaus

Departmental Recitals showcase performance departments through its students. Featuring various students and repertoire, and curated by the faculty, performances in this recital highlight SFCM programs and the wide range of study.

Brass Chamber Recital

Students in Colburn’s Music Academy are selected from the finest young musicians, ages 12-18, from around the globe. Guided and mentored by world-class faculty, Music Academy students develop their artistic voice as they prepare to enter top conservatories and for future professional success. This special showcase concert, presented for the first time this season, features performances by some of today’s most remarkable young artists.

Music Academy Showcase

Colburn School

There’s nothing to match the colours of a woodwind ensemble – put four terrific wind players together and it’s like opening a musical paintbox! Four of the Orchestra’s own woodwind superstars travel from swinging London to the jungles of Brazil in this joyous recital.

Liverpool Wind Collective

The Music Room

This recital is given in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music. Michail Thompson is a student of Barbara Butler. 

Michail Thompson, Trumpet

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

This performance is free and open for general seating

WIU Trumpet Studio Recital: students of Dr. Nicole Gillotti with Dr. Po-Chuan Chiang, piano

Western Illinois University

Historically, the art form known as “jazz” has largely been kept separate from the rest of the classical canon, but as time goes on more people are understanding the classic nature of this uniquely American musical tradition. In this program curated by Loki Karuna, audiences will experience the breadth of jazz’s influence on the European chamber music canon, contemporary composition, and everything in between, as a means of understanding jazz as one of the world’s “classical” traditions. Featuring the versatility of the saxophone alongside piano and strings.

Loki Karuna Curation (Brainerd)

Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts

The UMD School of Music launched its first-ever graduate fellowship brass quintet, Terrapin Brass, in the Fall 2021 semester as a way to further showcase its esteemed brass program. Now in its second iteration, the group presents a recital of brass works and transcriptions in this performance, Ascension, featuring works by Bozza, Bach and more!

School of Music Fellowship Ensemble: Terrapin Brass Quintet

The oboe studio of Cynthia DeAlmeida presents a varied program of oboe classics, which highlight the virtuosity and expressiveness of the instrument. They will be joined by Elettra Pomponio on piano and Cynthia DeAlmeida on oboe.

Oboe Studio Recital

Carnegie Mellon University

WIU Camerata Winds

First Lutheran Church, Galesburg

Knox-Galesburg Symphony

Agastya Batchu, French Horn

The Juilliard School

Join the Princeton Flute Studio for an evening of flute music featuring Yevgeny Morozov, pianist! The recital is free and open to the public. The students will be performing works by Hindemith, Enesco, Burton, Telemann, and more.

Eugene Bozza

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Opening Night - A Breath of Fresh Air · Nashville Chamber Music Society

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Student Degree Recital: Temon Birch, M.M. Bassoon Recital · University of Maryland School of Music

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