WELCOME TO BRASS QUINTET FORUM
31 May 2020
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.
Our 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 2020 is celebrating its 60th Anniversary as the high priests of brass!
The Annapolis Brass Quintet performed its final concert on April 25, 1993. Over its twenty-two years 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 premiere of a work commissioned especially for the occasion -- an emphatic statement that our farewell performance was not an end, but rather just part of a collective continuum in the advancement of brass chamber music.
It then took us 15 years to find a perfect home where the ABQ's music library would be easily accessible to benefit present and future generations of brass players and scholars.
[ Read More - ABQ Library @ Oberlin Conservatory of Music ]
Now, and over the past several months, we have come upon many recordings of our live concert and broadcast performances from as far back as 1975--recordings that we have digitalized, and that will become ancillary to the ABQ's Special Collection at Oberlin.
But first, we'd like to share these recordings with you. Over the next several months we will do weekly digital releases of many wonderful works for brass quintet alone and in various collaborative settings. Each Thursday from 12 March to 18 June, we will post/email an online link to a recording page that can also be accessed on this site's page menu: www.brassquintetforum.com
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.
Our 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 2020 is celebrating its 60th Anniversary as the high priests of brass!
The Annapolis Brass Quintet performed its final concert on April 25, 1993. Over its twenty-two years 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 premiere of a work commissioned especially for the occasion -- an emphatic statement that our farewell performance was not an end, but rather just part of a collective continuum in the advancement of brass chamber music.
It then took us 15 years to find a perfect home where the ABQ's music library would be easily accessible to benefit present and future generations of brass players and scholars.
[ Read More - ABQ Library @ Oberlin Conservatory of Music ]
Now, and over the past several months, we have come upon many recordings of our live concert and broadcast performances from as far back as 1975--recordings that we have digitalized, and that will become ancillary to the ABQ's Special Collection at Oberlin.
But first, we'd like to share these recordings with you. Over the next several months we will do weekly digital releases of many wonderful works for brass quintet alone and in various collaborative settings. Each Thursday from 12 March to 18 June, we will post/email an online link to a recording page that can also be accessed on this site's page menu: www.brassquintetforum.com
With thanks for your interest in brass chamber music,
Rip, Wayne, Sharon, Bob, Dave,
on behalf of
Annapolis Brass Quintet Members (1971 - 1993)
Rip, Wayne, Sharon, Bob, Dave,
on behalf of
Annapolis Brass Quintet Members (1971 - 1993)
04 JUNE 2020 PREVIEW
COMBINAZIONI V
for brass quintet
by
ROBERT HALL LEWIS
(1966 & 1979 Guggenheim Fellow)
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MUSIC FOR BRASS
(Sacred and Profane)
by
GEORGE WALKER
(1996 Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Music)
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Library Special Collections
Annapolis Brass Quintet Music Library
Available for Performance & Research
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Library Special Collections
Annapolis Brass Quintet Music Library
Available for Performance & Research
READ ALL ABOUT IT
FOSTERING BRASS CHAMBER MUSIC
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Annapolis Brass Quintet Special Collection at Oberlin Conservatory
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Annapolis Brass Quintet Special Collection at Oberlin Conservatory