Wyoming Arts Council

Boston Brass Summer Intensive comes to UW

Featured News | May 21, 2015

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From a University of Wyoming press release:

The Boston Brass Summer Intensive is a week-long session (June 7-13) featuring the world-renowned Boston Brass. The week is designed around performance and career development for brass players seeking advanced instruction of chamber music, audition preparation and guidance for those aspiring to a career in music performance.

Topics will include:

• Career development
• Audition achievement and coaching
• Brass literature in chamber settings as well as solo settings
• Music entrepreneurship
• Applied lessons by members of the Boston Brass and University of Wyoming faculty
• “Maximize your performance” class
• Daily Breathing Gym with Sam Pilafian
• Networking with faculty, colleagues, and professionals
• Boston Brass open rehearsals
• Boston Brass chamber concerts
• Performance opportunities in: Student groups, Combined professional/student groups, or Master class settings
• Coaching from members of the Boston Brass

The intensive will open with a concert by the Boston Brass on June 7 at 7:30 pm in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall. Here’s the rest of the concert schedule:

• Boston Brass – Free Concert – Monday, June 8 at 7 p.m. In the BCFA Concert Hall
• Boston Brass – Free Concert – Friday, June 12 at 7 p.m. In the BCFA Concert Hall
• Student/Boston Brass – Gala concert – Saturday, June 13 at 11 a.m. In the BCFA Concert Hall

Through over 100 performances each year, the members of Boston Brass play to audiences at concerts, educational venues, and jazz festivals. In addition to solo performances, Boston Brass regularly performs with orchestras, bands, organ, jazz bands, and a variety of other ensembles. They have performed in 49 states and 30 countries and have conducted master classes around the world including sessions and residencies at the Eastman School of Music, The Julliard School, Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, Peabody Conservatory of Music, University of North Texas, Royal Academy of Music in London, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory at the National University of Singapore, and Mahidol University in Bangkok. The ensemble’s lively repartee, touched with humor and personality, attempts to bridge the ocean of classical formality to delight audiences in an evening of great music and boisterous fun. The philosophy of Boston Brass is to provide audiences with a wide selection of musical styles in unique arrangements, provided in a friendly and fun atmosphere.

Boston Brass along with Jupiter Band Instruments are ambassadors for the Give A Note Foundation, giving musical instruments to schools in need. They have been featured educators and performers at the Mid West Band and Orchestra Clinic, World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, Music Educators National Conference events, American Bandmaster Association Conference, The American Band College, Western International Band Clinic, and the Texas Bandmasters Association Convention. Since 2006, Boston Brass has served as Artist/Educational Ambassadors for XO Professional Brass Instruments.

Boston Brass has been featured on The CBS Early Show, National Public Radio’s Performance Today, and The Great American Brass Band Festival, and has recorded several diverse albums. Latin Nights, their latest offering, features a collection of some of the greatest classical and jazz works by Latin composers and performers and features the legendary drummer Steve Gadd, the beautiful voice of Talita Real, percussion, and guitar. Other albums include Ya Gotta Try, featuring music from Horace Silver, Chick Corea, and Dizzy Gillespie, produced by legendary jazz recording genius Rudy van Gelder and Within Earshot, featuring classical works by Shostakovich, Ginastera, Dvorak, Liszt, and others.

To register, please contact the Fine Arts Box Office at (307) 766-6666 or faticket@uwyo.edu

FMI: Contact Scott Meredith, UW Assistant Professor of Trumpet, Brass Area Coordinator, 307-766-3339

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