On Saturday November 19, 2011, I will be performing a solo recital at 2:00pm in Sudler Recital Hall which is located in Willam H. Harkness at 100 Wall Street on Yale University’s campus. On this concert I will present the world premiere of a new work for trombone solo by Erik Neilsen titled “Slidebone.” This [...]
Hello all! Just writing in quickly here to tell you about an upcoming solo recital of mine. The recital will be Saturday, November 19, 2011 at 2:00pm in Yale University’s Sulder Hall which is located in Harkness Hall (100 wall street, 06501). Featuring the music of Weber, Marcello, Ewazen, and Hornoff, the recital also marks [...]
This Saturday, August 13 at 10:30 a.m. marks the final concert for the Young Artist Performance Series at Norfolk this summer. The Excalibur Brass will be performing the first, second and final movement from Oskar Böhme’s Sextet which calls for three trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba. We will be taking the stage with Yale faculty [...]
On August 5, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival presents Stravinsky’s L’histoire du soldat, conducted by Ransom Wilson, choreographed by Katie Stevinson-Nollet and the Full Force Dance theatre, with narration by John McDonough. The Soldier’s Tale was written in 1918 and features a septet of violin, double bass, clarinet, bassoon, cornet, trombone and percussion. This [...]
Thursday Night’s Young Artist Performer Series at the Norfolk Festival features the Excalibur Brass Quintet performing an arrangement of dances from Pierre Attaingnant’s collection:”Pariser Tanzbuch.” The collection was published in 1530, and features dozens of early renaissance-style dances. This arrangement by Allan Dean, Professor of Trumpet at Yale, features is a collection of several dances in [...]
This Saturday at 10:30 AM in the Music Shed at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Excalibur Brass Quintet will perform David Sampson’s Morning Music. Morning Music was written as a reaction to the violent events of the Greensboro Massacre which claimed Sampson’s brother. The twelve minute work seems to cycle through various stages of [...]
Tonight the Excalibur Brass will open tonight’s 7:30p concert with a quick set of Four Songs of Charles Ives. The first two songs in the set, On the Counter and The Side Show were written in 1920, and 1921 respectively, while the final two of the set were written earlier in life. Slow March, was written when [...]
Excalibur Brass Quintet to perform Eric Ewazen’s Colchester Fantasy to open this Thursday’s Young Artists’ Performance Series at 7:30pm, July 14, 2011 in the historic Music Shed on the Ellen Battell Stoeckel estate in Norfolk, CT.
Those interested may stream the concert at the link below. The concert is free and open to the public for [...]
Tonight the Excalibur Brass Quintet will perform Ludwig Maurer’s Three Pieces for brass quintet. Additional performances of Haydn Divertimento, and Haydn String Quartet op. 76 , no. 1. The performance is at 7:30pm, and the concert can be streamed live by clicking the link below.
I’ve made it to Norfolk. After Saturday night’s final performance of “Man of La Mancha” I helped strike the pit, hopped into my car and drove the 3+ hours to Connecticut. I slept for about 6 hours and then started the cycle of laundry, cleaning my trombone (no sand thanks!) and spending some quality time [...]
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