The Atlantic Brass Quintet is an American

brass quintet A brass quintet is a five-piece musical ensemble composed of brass instruments. The instrumentation for a brass quintet typically includes two trumpets or cornets, one French horn, one trombone or euphonium/baritone horn, and one tuba or bass tro ...

that has been in existence for over 30 years. Founded in 1985 by John Manning, Joseph Foley, John Faieta, Tsuyoshi Taramotoi, and Bob Rasmussen, the quintet has won Grand prizes at th
Coleman Chamber Music CompetitionCarmel Chamber Music Society Competition
the Shoreline Alliance Chamber Music Competition, the Summit Brass First International Brass Ensemble Competition, and th
Rafael Mendez
International Brass Quintet Competition. The group was named "Young Artists of 1988" by

Musical America ''Musical America'' is the oldest American magazine on classical music, first appearing in 1898 in print and in 1999 online magazine, online, at musicalamerica.com. It is published by Performing Arts Resources, LLC, of East Windsor, New Jersey. ...

. In May 1992, by unanimous decision, the Quintet won the "Premiere Prix" at the International Brass Competition of Narbonne, France. The quintet has performed at

Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall ( ) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It is at 881 Seventh Avenue (Manhattan), Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between 56th Street (Manhattan), 56th and 57th Street (Manhattan), 57t ...

, Weill Recital Hall, the

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival is a six-week-long summer Festival of chamber music held annually in July and August and located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was founded in 1972 and presented its first series of concerts in 1973. Well-known mu ...

, the Fleet Boston Celebrity Series,

Tanglewood Tanglewood is a music venue and Music festival, festival in the towns of Lenox, Massachusetts, Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Stockbridge in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. It has been the summer home of the Boston Symphony ...

, and the

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, and has been the resident brass quintet of

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...

, the

Boston University Tanglewood Institute The Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) is a summer music training program for students age 10 to 20 in Lenox, Massachusetts, under the auspices of the Boston University College of Fine Arts. History BUTI was envisioned in 1965 when ...

, and the

Boston Conservatory Boston Conservatory at Berklee (formerly The Boston Conservatory) is a private performing arts conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. It grants undergraduate and graduate degrees in dance, music, and theater. Boston Conservatory was founded o ...

. The quintet hosts th
Atlantic Brass Quintet Summer Seminar
each year. Established in 1993, the Summer Seminar is a 2-week immersive brass quintet camp with 55 participants (ranging from high school through college, post-grad, pre-professional, and adults) and 10 faculty, including the members of the Atlantic an
Triton
brass quintets. Members of the group have, and continue to compose and arrange music for brass quintet. Many of these compositions and arrangements are published by the Atlantic Brass Quintet and sold on the group's website. The current members of the Atlantic Brass Quintet ar
Thomas Bergeron
an
Andrew Sorg

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

s
Seth Orgel

French Horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most o ...

Timothy Albright

trombone The trombone (, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's lips vibrate inside a mouthpiece, causing the Standing wave, air c ...

; an
John Manning

tuba The tuba (; ) is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, the sound is produced by lip vibrationa buzzinto a mouthpiece (brass), mouthpiece. It first appeared in th ...

. The group's touring repertoire is known for its diverse stylistic influences, including

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and classical/ romanic transcriptions, jazz arrangements, and traditional

Balkan brass music Balkan brass, popularly known by the Serbian name ''Truba'' ( sr-Cyrl, Труба, "Trumpet"), is a distinctive style of music originating in the Balkan region as a fusion between military music and folk music. In recent years, it has become po ...

Discography

*''Quintet Matinee (2015)'' Atlantic Brass Quintet,

University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university system with its main campus in Storrs, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School, named after two benefactors. In 1893, ...

Wind Ensembles & Jeffrey H. Henshaw *''Crossover (2014)'' Atlantic Brass Quintet,

Summit Records Summit Records, Inc. is an internationally distributed record label that evolved out of the large brass ensemble Summit Brass in the late 1980s. It was established by David Hickman and Ralph Sauer. Four Summit Records recordings have been nom ...

DCD 625 *''Fanfares and Passages (2006)'' Atlantic Brass Quintet, Mark Custom Recordings 4247 *''5 Chairs (2005)'' Atlantic Brass Quintet,

DCD 396 *''Trumpets Sound, Voices Ring: A Joyous Christmas'' Atlantic Brass Quintet and Other Artists, Musical Heritage Society 523153F *''A Musical Voyage (1995)'' Atlantic Brass Quintet,

DCD 119 *''Picture This: Artistic Transcriptions for Brass (2005)'' Atlantic Brass Quintet, MusicMasters Classics 01612-67142-2 *''All American Trombone: Ronald Barron'' Atlantic Brass Quintet and Other Artists, Boston Brass Series BB1003 *''Mostly Railroad Music:

Eldon Rathburn Eldon Davis Rathburn (21 April 1916 – 31 August 2008) was a Canadian film composer who scored over 250 films during his thirty-year tenure as a staff composer at the National Film Board of Canada. Known as "the dean of Canadian film composers",< ...

'' Atlantic Brass Quintet and Other Artists, Crystal Records CD520 *''By George! Gershwin’s Greatest Hits (1993)'' Atlantic Brass Quintet, MusicMasters Classics 01612-67104-2 *''Atlantic Brass Quintet en Concert'' Atlantic Brass Quintet, Disques FY et du Solstice SOCD 97

References

External links

www.AtlanticBrassQuintet.com
{{Authority control Musical groups established in 1985 Brass quintets American brass bands Summit Records artists 1985 establishments in the United States