Oct 31, 2017 |
Seraph Brass, a dynamic quintet that draws from a roster of America’s top female brass players, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, at St. Bonaventure University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.
It is the third concert in the Friends of Good Music 2017-2018 performance season.
The program will feature works by varied composers ranging from Leonard Bernstein to Giacomo Puccini, as well as a section titled “Music Through the Ages,” with selections from the 12th to the 16th centuries.
Seraph Brass is known for engaging audiences with captivating programming and a diverse repertoire that includes original transcriptions, newly commissioned works, and well-known classics. The group will release its debut studio album, “Asteria,” on Summit Records in January 2018.
The quintet has toured throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe. They have given multiple concerts at the Lieksa Brass Week in Finland and were the featured ensemble at the 2017 International Women’s Brass Conference at Rowan University, Glassboro, N.J.
Seraph Brass has performed at the Forum Cultural Guanajuato in León, Mexico, and as part of the Dame Myra Hess concert series at the Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Ill. The quintet has also been welcomed by the Gettysburg Concert Association, Gettysburg, Pa.; Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla; the State University of New York at Cortland; and the Jamestown Concert Association, Jamestown, N.Y.
Members of Seraph Brass performed with Adele on her 2016 North American tour.
Enthusiastic about education, Seraph has developed strong relationships with music programs in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., inspired by Venezuela’s El Sistema, a music education program for impoverished children. This season they will give residencies and performances at Eastern Illinois University, Marywood University in Pennsylvania, and Metropolitan State University of Denver, Colo.
Seraph Brass is committed to commissioning new works. These include “Wolf,” a piece for solo soprano and brass quintet written by Philadelphia-based composer Joseph Hallman, as well as new works by Catherine McMichael and Rene Orth, which are featured on “Asteria.” Seraph also premiered Lucy Pankhurt’s “Ouroboros,” with euphonium soloist Hélène Escriva, at the International Women’s Brass Conference, and has many original arrangements by trumpeter Jeff Luke, which are featured on “Asteria” and “Seraph Brass Live!”
Members of Seraph Brass have performed with such esteemed ensembles as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Musicians from Marlboro, Luzern Music Festival in Switzerland, National Symphony, Brass Band of Battle Creek, Daejeon Philharmonic in Korea, and Auckland Philharmonia in New Zealand.
They hold positions in the Richmond Symphony, Tucson Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Artosphere Orchestra, Tennessee Tech University, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Louisiana State University, University of Richmond, and North Carolina School of the Arts.
Tickets for the concert are $20 at full price, $16 for senior citizens and SBU employees, and $5 for students. Subscription tickets for the remaining Friends of Good Music season are still available. A basic subscription, which includes one ticket to each of six concerts, is $102, with a discounted rate of $84 for senior citizens and SBU employees.
For subscriptions, single ticket sales and information, call The Quick Center at (716) 375-2494.
For each Friends of Good Music performance, The Quick Center will open its galleries one hour before the performance and keep them open throughout the intermission. Regular gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Museum admission is free and open to the public year round. For more information, visit www.sbu.edu/quickcenter.
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