Boise State Brass Quintet performs Sunday

The Boise State Brass Quintet, comprised of BSU music

professors, will perform this Sunday, offering people a chance to

experience the dedication that comes from several years of study at

renowned music schools.

The quintet has been educated at the Juilliard School of Music,

Yale University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music among

others.

Various side projects also attest to their continuing dedication

to music and its students.

Aside from teaching music at BSU, the quintet is involved with

high school bands and orchestras, and they have performed at

several area high schools.

The quintet has also played with several orchestras and chamber

music groups around the country.

Currently, they play between 25 and 50 concerts per year to

student and community audiences. Their concerts include material by

composers ranging from the Renaissance to modern day.

For this concert they will play pieces and transcriptions by

Scheidt, an early German Baroque composer, Ewazen, a composer and

faculty member at the Juilliard School of Music, and Lutoslawski, a

20th century Polish composer, and trumpet artist Philip Jones.

Marcellus Brown, director of the BSU University Symphonic Winds

and the Treasure Valley Concert Band, plays trumpet in the Boise

State Brass Quintet. He also plays in Duo Les Bois, a trumpet and

organ duo.

Music professor David Mathie is the quintet’s trombonist.

He is associate chair of the department, and was principal

trombonist in the Juilliard Symphony while achieving his

master’s degree.

Assistant professor Michael A. Fischer, tuba player, teaches

tuba and music education. He founded Octubafest at BSU, a

month-long celebration of the tuba.

Finishing out the quintet are assistant professor David

Saunders, of horn and music theory at BSU, and Brad Peters, an

adjunct professor of trumpet at BSU.

The performance is at 4 p.m. this Sunday in the Hemingway

Center.

 

Justin Prescott, The Arbiter

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