Carolina Brass
Encyclopedia
Carolina Brass is the name chosen by two different brass quintet
s based in North Carolina
.
Carolina Brass in Charlotte
Carolina Brass was founded in 1980 by four principal brass musicians of the Charlotte Symphony and a professor of music at Davidson College. Since its founding, Carolina Brass has given hundreds of performances throughout the Southeast, including the Piccolo Spoleto festival in Charleston, SC. Over the years, Carolina Brass has performed many educational concerts, church services, weddings, and recitals. Due to the demanding schedule of the Charlotte Symphony, this group has, in recent years, chosen to serve Charlotte and the surrounding area, despite opportunities to tour nationally.
Current members of Carolina Brass are: Frank Portone (horn), Chris Fensom (trumpet
), Bill Lawing (trumpet
), John Bartlett (trombone
), and Fred Boyd (tuba
)
Carolina Brass in the Triad/Triangle
Since being founded in 1997, the group has become a national touring ensemble. They tour throughout the United States performing in a variety of settings including concert halls, universities, churches, and giving educational concerts at schools and other venues. Carolina Brass performs a wide variety of music including Classical
and Contemporary works, Medieval
and Renaissance music
, and pops programs encompassing Broadway
, Jazz
, Dixieland
, Big Band
, and other popular forms. The mission of the Carolina Brass is to promote the understanding of music and to improve the performance level of musicians of all ages through performances, residencies, master classes, and recordings.
This ensemble consists of a traditional brass quintet plus percussionist. Current members are: Timothy Hudson (trumpet
), Dennis de Jong (trumpet
), Robert Campbell (horn), David Wulfeck (trombone
), Matt Ransom (tuba
), and John R. Beck (percussion).
Carolina Brass is a Summit Records
artist.
This group does not have any CDs for sale at this time.
Carolina Brass in the Triad/Triangle
Brass quintet
A brass quintet is a five-piece musical ensemble composed of brass instruments. The most common instrumentation is two trumpets or cornets, one horn, one trombone or euphonium/baritone horn, and one tuba or bass trombone....
s based in North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
.
Carolina Brass in Charlotte
Carolina Brass was founded in 1980 by four principal brass musicians of the Charlotte Symphony and a professor of music at Davidson College. Since its founding, Carolina Brass has given hundreds of performances throughout the Southeast, including the Piccolo Spoleto festival in Charleston, SC. Over the years, Carolina Brass has performed many educational concerts, church services, weddings, and recitals. Due to the demanding schedule of the Charlotte Symphony, this group has, in recent years, chosen to serve Charlotte and the surrounding area, despite opportunities to tour nationally.
Current members of Carolina Brass are: Frank Portone (horn), Chris Fensom (trumpet
Trumpet
The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
), Bill Lawing (trumpet
Trumpet
The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
), John Bartlett (trombone
Trombone
The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
), and Fred Boyd (tuba
Tuba
The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the...
)
Carolina Brass in the Triad/Triangle
Since being founded in 1997, the group has become a national touring ensemble. They tour throughout the United States performing in a variety of settings including concert halls, universities, churches, and giving educational concerts at schools and other venues. Carolina Brass performs a wide variety of music including Classical
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
and Contemporary works, Medieval
Medieval music
Medieval music is Western music written during the Middle Ages. This era begins with the fall of the Roman Empire and ends sometime in the early fifteenth century...
and Renaissance music
Renaissance music
Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance. Defining the beginning of the musical era is difficult, given that its defining characteristics were adopted only gradually; musicologists have placed its beginnings from as early as 1300 to as late as the 1470s.Literally meaning...
, and pops programs encompassing Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
, Jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
, Dixieland
Dixieland
Dixieland music, sometimes referred to as Hot jazz, Early Jazz or New Orleans jazz, is a style of jazz music which developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century, and was spread to Chicago and New York City by New Orleans bands in the 1910s.Well-known jazz standard songs from the...
, Big Band
Big band
A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with jazz and the Swing Era typically consisting of rhythm, brass, and woodwind instruments totaling approximately twelve to twenty-five musicians...
, and other popular forms. The mission of the Carolina Brass is to promote the understanding of music and to improve the performance level of musicians of all ages through performances, residencies, master classes, and recordings.
This ensemble consists of a traditional brass quintet plus percussionist. Current members are: Timothy Hudson (trumpet
Trumpet
The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
), Dennis de Jong (trumpet
Trumpet
The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
), Robert Campbell (horn), David Wulfeck (trombone
Trombone
The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
), Matt Ransom (tuba
Tuba
The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the...
), and John R. Beck (percussion).
Carolina Brass is a Summit Records
Summit Records
Summit Records, Inc. is an internationally distributed record label that evolved out of the dynamic large brass ensemble, Summit Brass in the late 1980s...
artist.
Discography
Carolina Brass in CharlotteThis group does not have any CDs for sale at this time.
Carolina Brass in the Triad/Triangle
- Carolina Brass Christmas (2000)
- Includes traditional English, American, and Afro-American Holiday tunes as well as works by Mendelssohn, Gustov Holst, J.S. Bach, and Charles Marie Widor.
- That's A Plenty! (2003)
- Includes works by Pollack, Arutunian, Mouret, J.P. Sousa, Frackenpohl, Purcell, Bernstein, Strayhorn and more.
- ART Collection (2004)
- This collection of works written and arranged by Arthur Frackenpohl is a tribute to the American composer.