Canadian Brass—A Holiday Concert program: Performance program

Friday

DEC 12 7:30 pm

c n e o r t C y a d i l o H A

Canadian Brass Celebrate the season with this iconic brass quintet

This event is sponsored, in part, by the Lied Performance Fund This event is also made possible through the generous support of Irvine and Ellen Hockaday

Please be mindful of the following in the auditorium: • Please silence cellular phones and electronic devices • No food or drink • No cameras or recording devices

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Friday, December 12, 2014

CANADIAN BRASS Selections from Renaissance Dances Little Fugue in G Minor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.S. Bach/arr. Balm Selections from Carnaval Op. 9. . . . . . . R.Schumann/

arr. Coletti/Ridenour A Charlie Brown Christmas. . . . . . . . . . . . V. Guaraldi/arr. Rideour Tannenbaum What Child is This Christmas Time is Here

I Saw Three Ships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Traditional/arr. Henderson

Intermission: 20 Minutes Glenn Miller Christmas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . arr. Dedrick Bach’s Bells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J.S. Bach/arr. Coletti A Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire). . . . . . . . . . . M. Torne/arr. Henderson Dreydel Variations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Traditional/arr. Romm Suite from Carmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . G. Bizet/arr. Mills Program subject to change The official website of Canadian Brass is www.canadianbrass.com Keep up with Canadian Brass via Twitter.com, Facebook and Youtube Canadian Brass performs on 24-karat gold plated Conn-Selmer instruments and is an Opening Day Recording Artist Canadian Brass recordings are available at www.Arkivmusic.com/CandianBrass Canadian Brass appears by arrangement with IMG Artists 152 West 57th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10019. Tel: 212/994-3500

Canadian Brass With an international reputation as one of the most popular brass ensembles today, Canadian Brass has truly earned the distinction of “the world’s most famous brass group.”

Masters of concert presentations, Canadian Brass has developed a uniquely engaging stage presence and rapport with audiences. Each of their concerts will show the full range from trademark Baroque and Dixieland tunes to new compositions and arrangements created especially for them — from formal classical presentation to music served up with lively dialogue and theatrical effects. \Whatever the style, the music is central and performed with utmost dedication, skill and excellence. \With a discography of over 130 albums, including several videos and an extensive world-wide touring schedule, Canadian Brass continues to score Billboard chart positions. They are an important pioneer in bringing brass music to mass audiences everywhere throughout North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

They were the first brass ensemble from the West to perform in the People’s Republic of China as well as the first brass group to take the main stage at the venerable Carnegie Hall. \With four decades under their belts, Canadian Brass continues to thrill audiences around the world — and they don’t look like they are letting up anytime soon!

Christopher Coletti, trumpet Trumpeter/arranger Christopher Coletti joined Canadian Brass in 2009.

Coletti received his master’s degree from the Juilliard School and his bachelor’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music, which he completed in just three years. Since joining the group, he has performed hundreds of concerts, made television and radio appearances around the world, recorded four billboard chart-topping/award-winning CDs, filmed multiple music videos, and arranged a plethora of music that the group has recorded and regularly performs.

Coletti got his professional start as principal trumpet of the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra in Alabama. Comfortable in many musical styles, he has performed with a wide range of musicians ranging from Yefim Bronfman, Pierre Boulez, Michael Tilson Thomas and Ricardo Muti to Quincy Jones, Carlos Santana, and Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine.

Throughout his education Coletti received multiple awards and scholarships, and won a number of competitions including the Music Academy of the West Chamber Concerto Competition, Manhattan School of Music Concerto Competition, LaGuardia Arts Concerto Competition Staten Island Symphony Concerto Competition, The Tanglewood Music Center Charles E. Culpeper Foundation Fellowship and Susan B. Kaplan Fellowship, The Juilliard School Frieda and Harry Aronson Scholarship, and The Manhattan School of Music President Scholarship.

Friday, December 12, 2014 Chuck Daellenbach, tuba Chuck Daellenbach has brought music, imagination and humor to Canadian Brass since the group was formed in 1970. Playing a key role in all of the group’s groundbreaking projects, world travels and on over 130 recordings, Daellenbach and his gold-plated and carbon bell tuba are the bedrock of the massive Canadian Brass repertoire — from Baroque to jazz. Daellenbach comes from a long line of German and Swiss musicians, and his father gave him daily music lessons during his upbringing in Wisconsin.

As a teenager, Daellenbach began studies with legendary Chicago Symphony tuba player, Arnold Jacobs. After earning a Ph.D. at the age of 25 from the Eastman School of Music, he headed north to teach at the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto. His academic plans were soon derailed when he met trombonist Gene Watts and together they formed this unique brass quintet.

For the next 38 years Watts and Daellenbach guided Canadian Brass to the top of their field, through thousands of performances and fantastic opportunities including two “command” performances for the Queen of England. Daellenbach’s dialogue during concerts has kept audiences engaged helping to establish an appreciation for great music of all types to musicians and non-musicians alike.

The definition of a multi-tasker, Daellenbach always has several projects in the works at once. These include a series of hundreds of brass works published by Hal Leonard (many accompanied by CDs) played by music students and professional players around the world.

He runs Canadian Brass Publishing and together with his wife, MB, they manage Opening Day Entertainment Group [Odeg], the ensemble’s recording label. They reside in Toronto, Ontario, with their sons, Chris and Willis.

Caleb Hudson, trumpet Caleb Hudson joined Canadian Brass after graduating from the Juilliard School in 2012 with a Bachelor and Master of Music degree. Acclaimed by the New York Times as ‘brilliantly stylish,’ Hudson made his solo debut with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center performing Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2.

Hudson was soloist with pianist Vladimir Feltsman at the Aspen Music Festival in a performance of Shostakovich’s Concerto No. 1 for Piano, Trumpet and Orchestra. He has performed as a soloist across the U.S., most recently as a recitalist at the University of Georgia Performing Arts Center, where he was also a soloist with the UGA Wind Ensemble. Upcoming solo engagements include the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and a performance at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art with members of the Israel Philharmonic.

Hudson has won first place at the National Trumpet Competition multiple times, and has performed with the New York City Ballet, New World Symphony, Symphony in C, Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, New York Trumpet Ensemble and the American Brass Quintet. An avid baroque musician, Hudson also performs with notable early music ensembles including Philharmonia Baroque, American Bach Soloists, The American Classical Orchestra, Concert Royal and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra. He is an alumnus of Ensemble ACJW, a fellowship program of Carnegie Hall that promotes arts advocacy, community outreach and music education. Native to Lexington, Kentucky, Hudson currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, Amanda.

Canadian Brass Achilles Liarmakopoulos, trombone Award-winning Achilles Liarmakopoulos is the trombonist of Canadian Brass. Liarmakopoulos holds degrees from the Yale University School of Music, Curtis Institute of Music, San Francisco Conservatory and the Philippos Nakas Conservatory in his hometown of Athens, Greece.

Liarmakopoulos has toured extensively throughout North America, Europe and Asia, performing and educating in the world’s most important venues and institutions. Upon completion of his studies, he won the position of principal trombone of the Greek Radio Symphony Orchestra. Liarmakopoulos has also performed with the Malaysian Philharmonic, Jacksonville Symphony and European Union Youth Orchestra, among others.

At the age of 18, he gave two solo performances at Walt Disney Hall as the grand prize winner of the Pasadena Showcase House Instrumental Competition. He has gone on to win prizes at the Christian Lindberg International Competition, the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe (YMFE) and the International Trombone Festival’s Robert Marsteller/Conn-Selmer and Larry Wiehe solo competitions, to name a few. Liarmakopoulos was also awarded the Alexandros S. Onassis Foundation and Greek State Scholarship Foundation educational scholarships.

In 2011, he released his debut solo album on the NAXOS label, Tango Distinto, celebrating the music of Astor Piazzolla, the first solo trombone album with Piazzolla’s music. He continues to champion the music of Latin American composers and he was recently invited by salsa icon Ruben Blades to perform at his concerts. He occasionally tours with the world renowned Pink Martini, and he is also an adjunct trombone professor at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

Bernhard Scully, horn Virtuoso Bernhard Scully is the professor of horn at the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana. He is a passionate teacher, and has been on the faculty of the Music Academy of the West, the Eastman School of Music, the Kendall Betts Horn Camp, the Madeline Island Music Camp with the Prairie Winds Quintet and the Raphael Mendez Brass Institute.

Scully has held the position of principal horn with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra where he was featured as a soloist on many occasions. Prior to the SPCO he was the horn player of Canadian Brass, performing on numerous recordings and touring the world. He has been fortunate to return and play with the quintet on numerous occasions since his departure. He is in demand as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player (including orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony), and is a frequent guest artist at workshops, conventions and clinics across the United States. He has recorded the G. Schirmer Horn Library, which includes much of the standard repertoire for horn and piano.

Scully has numerous awards to his credit including being the first horn player to win the prestigious McKnight Music Fellowship. In 2010, the University of Wisconsin-Madison awarded him the Distinguished Alumni Award for excellence in artistry. He currently resides in Champaign, Illinois, with his wife, Sarah, and their three daughters.

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