St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church
Sunday, February 20
3pm
free admission
$10 Suggested Donation
Proceeds benefit Give Them Music educational outreach programs

Vance Woolf, Matt Ernst - trumpets
Samantha La Pointe-Woolf - horn
Bron Wright - trombone
Robert Nunez - tuba


Featuring works by Bach, Debussy, Hindemith and Ewazen

New Orleans Uptown Brass is a new brass quintet based in New OrleansLouisiana. Its members are all full-time musicians from the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and graduates from leading American music conservatories.

 

Recently nominated for the 2008 Classical Arts Awards, the New Orleans Uptown Brass can present a large and diverse repertoire of music. Their thorough grounding in classical performance combined with the influence of the jazz tradition of New Orleans which means they can change gears effortlessly from the ornate baroque masterpieces of J.S. Bach to the hot style of Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong.

 

New Orleans Uptown Brass plans to perform as many full recitals as possible outside of their busy schedule with the Philharmonic. They want to help build audiences at local performance venues and provide a high quality and entertaining musical experience. The Quintet can excite audiences by offering a fresh presentation to concert goers, our goal is not to be your normal classical chamber group where everyone is sitting in a semicircle, wearing tuxedos and staring into music stands playing music that can sometimes seem inaccessible.

 

Our eclectic mix of styles including transcriptions of French impressionistic music, Dixieland and high baroque, have broad appeal and all are played with great élan. Our audience response is one of extreme enthusiasm; “Wow, I didn’t know brass instruments could do all that” is something we hear often after our performances.

 

New Orleans Uptown Brass wants to play it’s part in contributing to music education and supporting those people who teach music everyday in the schools. We have developed a knockout concert to present to local elementary schools. The concept is “A First Look at the Brass”. We have specifically fashioned an educational program that provides an up close introduction to the brass family of instruments. See each instrument demonstrated and highlighted through renditions of popular melodies from Mozart to the music of a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans

visit quintet's website here...