Boston Brass Schedules Three UW Performances

Award-winning performers and recording artists, the Boston Brass, will offer three free concerts during a weeklong summer intensive June 7-13 at the University of Wyoming.

The concerts, all scheduled in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts concert hall, will be Monday, June 8, and Friday, June 12, at 7 p.m. A gala concert with the Boston Brass and student performers is scheduled Saturday, June 13, at 11 a.m.

The week is designed around performance and career development for brass players seeking advanced instruction of chamber music, audition preparation and guidance for those aspiring to careers in music performance.

Members of the group will offer their expertise in areas such as career development, audition achievement and coaching, maximizing performance, and networking. Open rehearsals and concerts will be offered, and students will experience performance opportunities in group and master class settings.

Through more than 100 performances each year, the members of Boston Brass play to audiences at concerts, educational venues and jazz festivals. In addition to solo performances, Boston Brass regularly performs with orchestras, bands, organ, jazz bands and a variety of other ensembles. The group has performed in 49 states and 30 countries, and has conducted master classes around the world.

For 27 years, Boston Brass has entertained audiences with classical arrangements, burning jazz standards and the best of the original brass quintet repertoire. The group has been featured on “The CBS Early Show,” National Public Radio's “Performance Today,” and the Great American Brass Band Festival. The group has recorded several diverse albums.