Mon 11/14 @ 7:30PM
The Rocky River Chamber Music Society’s season continues with a relatively young chamber music ensemble: the Emerald Brass Quintet, formed in 2006 by graduate students at Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. Since then, they’ve scattered to Utah, Indiana, Hawaii, California and Tennessee, but they’ve continued to perform across the U.S. and in Europe.
The ensemble combines standard repertoire works for brass quintets with works by contemporary composers and improvised solos in arrangements by the group’s trombone player Chris Van Hof. They frame their concerts with narrative and audience interaction to get listeners more engaged with the music, part of their commitment to music education as well as performance.
Among the composers whose music they’ll perform (in arrangements by Van Hof) are Gabriel Fauré, Isaac Albéniz, Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel, Astor Piazzolla and Arturo Márquez.
The concert takes place at RRCMS’s regular home at West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church where all pews are now in use. For those still uncomfortable about going out, the concert will be streams on RRCMS’s YouTube channel going live at 7:15 for the 7:30pm concert.
As always, the concert is free, although donations are welcome.
Rocky River Chamber Music Society