National Orchestral Institute + Festival: Brass Quintet Recital
National Orchestral Institute + Festival: Brass Quintet Recital
The livestream of this socially distanced performance will be available for you to watch from home. Please do not come to the building. This performance is not open to a public in-person audience.
Artists:
Neil Brown, trumpet (NOI+F alumni)
Wyeth Aleksei, trumpet (NOI+F alumni)
Austin Sposato, horn (NOI+F alumni)
Sarah Lewandowski, trombone (NOI+F alumni)
Matthew Guilford, bass trombone (NOI+F & UMD School of Music faculty)
This 30-minute recital presented by the National Orchestral Institute + Festival features NOI+F and School of Music alumni and faculty in music by George Walker, Barbara Strozzi and Joan Tower. The recital will be followed by a conversation featuring School of Music Director and horn player Gregory Miller (Empire Brass & NOI+F faculty) and Distinguished Professor of Trumpet Chris Gekker (American Brass Quintet & NOI+F faculty) moderated by NOI+F Artist Services Coordinator and horn player Austin Sposato.
Program:
George Walker (1922-2018): Selections from Music for Brass, Sacred and Profane
Barbara Strozzi, arr. Corey Sansolo (1619-1677): Suite of Madrigals
Joan Tower (b. 1938): Copperwave
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The National Orchestral Institute + Festival, a program of the University of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (The Clarice), trains aspiring orchestral musicians, composers, conductors and arts administrators from across the country in a month of dynamic music-making and professional exploration. Participants are chosen through a rigorous, cross-country audition process. Every year, these young artists present passionate and awe-inspiring performances of adventuresome repertoire both at The Clarice and in the College Park, Maryland, community.
Trailblazing conductor Marin Alsop was appointed as the first-ever music director of the National Orchestral Institute + Festival in 2020. In addition to conducting innovative programs onstage at The Clarice, Maestra Alsop will launch the NOI+F Conducting Academy and record three full-length documentaries with Naxos Records. In 2015, NOI+F began a partnership with Naxos to record one concert of all-American music each year—Naxos’ first partnership with a summer festival of its kind. The 2019 recording Ruggles, Stucky, Harbison received a Grammy nomination in the “Best Orchestral Performance” category.