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UConn Brass Festival and Competition

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Location:  University of Connecticut, Storrs

                    von der Mehden Recital Hall and Music Department

Join us on February 13, for a day-long Brass Festival featuring master classes, workshops and performances by the Atlantic Brass, the University of Connecticut Brass Faculty, and more.

Highlights will include

  • Brass Chamber Music Competition and Workshop:  Adult (College or older) Division and Pre-College Division
  • Brass Solo Competition:  Pre-College Division
  • Master Classes, Clinics and Presentations
  • Large Ensemble Reading Sessions for Participants
  • Instrumental Sales and Publishing Vendors Exhibition Hall (Bach/Conn/Selmer, Shires, Cimarron Press, and more!)
  • Featured performances by
    • Atlantic Brass Quintet
    • UConn Faculty Brass Quintet
  • Additional Performances by
    • The Classic Brass

For information concerning the Pre-College, or Adult Division Competitions, please click here.

Click here to download and print a registration form in pdf format.

 

Festival Schedule (subject to change)
Sunday February 13, 2011

 
8:00 am Registration/Check-In Opens
9:00 am Session I: UCONN Faculty Master Classes (trumpet, horn, trombone, euphonium, tuba)
  Vendor Exhibition Hall (open until 6:00pm)
10:15 am Morning Concert: UCONN Faculty Brass
11:00 am Session II: Open reherasal with the Atlantic Brass and UConn Faculty Brass, Dr. Jeffrey Renshaw, conductor
12:00 pm Lunch Break
12:30 pm Session III
 

Competition Finals

  • Pre-College Solo
  • Pre-College Ensemble
  • Adult Division Ensemble
  Brass Ensemble Reading Session, and clinic for large brass ensembles
2:30 pm Session IV
  Improvisation, Professor Earl MacDonald, UCONN Jazz Studies Coordinator; Tim Albright, Atlantic Brass Quintet
4:00 pm Mid-Day Concert: The Classic Brass
5:00 pm Session V
  -Atlantic Brass Quintet Coaching Sessions with participant ensembles
6:00 pm Dinner Break
7:00 pm Festival Concert featuring
 

-The Atlantic Brass Quintet

-UCONN Brass Faculty

 

 

 

 

 

 
      
  Community School of the Arts
3 Witryol Place, U-5195
Storrs, CT 06269
Phone: (860)486-1073
Email: CSA@UConn.edu