Matthew Russo, trombonist & educator

Instructor of Trombone, University of Connecticut

Category: news

  • morning music

    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…

  • set of four ives songs

    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…

  • colchester fantasy

    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…

  • ludwig maurer – three pieces

    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. Stream it Live!

  • summer at norfolk

    This summer I’ll be spending six weeks at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival as the resident brass quintet along with my fellow members of the Yale Brass Quintet. There will be many opportunities to perform at the festival and its my understanding that all of the concerts will be live streamed. I’ll update the events…

  • Launch of New Website

    Hi folks. I’m happy to launch my new website. It’ll be slow going, but I hope to use this space to keep many of you up to date with my musical endeavors etc. I’ll be adding more content as we go along. Let me know what you think in the comments.