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The Bloor Annex Brass Ensemble is a gaggle that harnesses the ability of orchestral brass in live performance. Their subsequent efficiency takes place on March 12.
Ilan Mendel and Dominic Ghiglione, Inventive Administrators of the Bloor-Annex Brass Ensemble, will lead the group by an eclectic program that showcases the vary of colors the mix of six trumpets, three trombones, a euphonium, and two bass trombones (all present or former college students of the College of Toronto or Glenn Gould Faculty), is able to.
With Robert Conquer on trombone as visitor soloist, they’ll carry out the work of some maybe shocking composers.
Robert Conquer, trombone/arranger
Scarborough, Ontario native Robert Conquer gained the highest award of the 2022 Michael Measures prizes. That’s after coming second in the identical competitors, designed to acknowledge proficient members within the Nationwide Youth Orchestra of Canada program, the 12 months earlier than. In 2020, he took prime prize on the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal Competitors.
Because the Michael Measures Prize winner, he toured Canada with the NYOC as a soloist.
Robert studied on the Curtis Institute of Music as a Presser Scholar, and graduated in 2023 with a Bachelor’s of Music diploma. On his appointment because the Principal Trombonist of the Canadian Opera Firm Orchestra for the 2023/24 season, he turned the group’s youngest common musician.
Robert has carried out as a visitor musician with the Nationwide Arts Centre and Philadelphia Orchestras.
A ten-piece model of the Bloor Annex Brass Ensemble performs the Queen Metropolis Fanfare by Elizabeth Raum in September 2023:
The Program
Ascent to the Summit Tara Islas (b. 1966)
American French horn participant and composer Tara Islas is a member of America Air Power Band in Washington, DC. She’s written a number of works for chamber ensembles, band, and choir.
Colossus by Anthony DiLorenzo (b. 1994)
Emmy Award profitable composer Anthony DiLorenzo can be a trumpet soloist, and Grammy nominated recording artist. His compositions have been carried out by ensembles reminiscent of The San Francisco Symphony, The New World Symphony, The Louisiana Philharmonic, The Utah Symphony, The Tokyo Symphony and The Boston Pops Orchestra.
5 Actions from Divertimento for Brass by Raymond Premru (1934-1998)
American Raymond Premru was an acclaimed performer as a trombonist, spending a lot of his working life within the UK. He typically labored and recorded with the likes of Oscar Peterson and Frank Sinatra. He was additionally a trainer, and composer of choral and different works. His compositions had been carried out by the UK and North America.
A Moorside Suite Gustav Holst (1843-1943) arr. Jeffrey de Sierere II
Gustav Holst composed his A Moorside Suite particularly for brass band. The piece was co-commissioned by the BBC in 1927 for the ultimate of the 1928 Nationwide Brass Band Championships of Nice Britain. It consists of three actions: Scherzo, Nocturne, and March.
Conquer organized the ‘Che gelida manina’ from La Bohemé Giacomo Puccini, and the Cavatine, Op. 144 by Camille Saint-Saëns, which the ensemble will carry out.
This system is rounded out by ‘Vichnaya Pamyat’ from Chernobyl by Hildur Guðnadóttir (the Oscar-winning composer for the film Joker), and Adoration (organized for brass ensemble) by American Florence Worth, whose work, lauded in her period of the early Thirties, was forgotten for many years. Each items had been organized for brass ensemble by David Miller.
- The Free Occasion takes place on March 12, 2024 from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. on the Timothy Eaton Memorial Church in Toronto as a part of their Music Mosaic collection. Admission is by donation.
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Anya Wassenberg is a Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. She is an skilled freelance author, blogger and writing teacher.
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