Founded In 1971 as
America's First Full-Time
Performing Brass Ensemble
1971 - 1993
Annapolis Brass Quintet
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ANNAPOLIS BRASS CHAMBER MUSIC
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Welcome to Brass Quintet Forum.com, a website designed to foster brass chamber music. What you will find here is content focused mostly on the repertoire for brass quintet, especially music composed for chamber settings, and specifically works performed by or with the Annapolis Brass Quintet, which was founded in 1971 as America's first full-time performing brass ensemble.
The Annapolis Brass Quintet's founding was inspired by the New York Brass Quintet (founded in 1954), and the American Brass Quintet, (founded in 1960). These two extraordinary ensembles played critical roles in establishing the brass quintet as a respected chamber music medium. While New York collectively retired in 1984, the American Brass Quintet in 2025 marks its 65th Anniversary as the 'high priests of brass'.
The Annapolis Brass Quintet performed its final concert on April 25, 1993. Over its twenty-two year career the ABQ performed thousands of concerts on four continents and in all fifty states, recorded sixteen commercial albums, unearthed and performed a large body of early brass music, and premiered some seventy-five new works for brass quintet. The ABQ's final concert included the world premiere of a work commissioned especially for the occasion -- an emphatic statement that this farewell performance was not an end, but rather part of a collective continuum, in the advancement of brass chamber music.
In 2008 ABQ found the perfect home where its music library would be easily accessible to benefit present and future generations of brass players and scholars.
Welcome to Brass Quintet Forum.com, a website designed to foster brass chamber music. What you will find here is content focused mostly on the repertoire for brass quintet, especially music composed for chamber settings, and specifically works performed by or with the Annapolis Brass Quintet, which was founded in 1971 as America's first full-time performing brass ensemble.
The Annapolis Brass Quintet's founding was inspired by the New York Brass Quintet (founded in 1954), and the American Brass Quintet, (founded in 1960). These two extraordinary ensembles played critical roles in establishing the brass quintet as a respected chamber music medium. While New York collectively retired in 1984, the American Brass Quintet in 2025 marks its 65th Anniversary as the 'high priests of brass'.
The Annapolis Brass Quintet performed its final concert on April 25, 1993. Over its twenty-two year career the ABQ performed thousands of concerts on four continents and in all fifty states, recorded sixteen commercial albums, unearthed and performed a large body of early brass music, and premiered some seventy-five new works for brass quintet. The ABQ's final concert included the world premiere of a work commissioned especially for the occasion -- an emphatic statement that this farewell performance was not an end, but rather part of a collective continuum, in the advancement of brass chamber music.
In 2008 ABQ found the perfect home where its music library would be easily accessible to benefit present and future generations of brass players and scholars.
Annapolis Brass Quintet Music Library
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Oberlin Conservatory Library
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Available for Performance & Research
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TO ACCESS THE
Annapolis Brass Quintet Special Collection
Oberlin Conservatory Library
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