Fermilab's Gallery Chamber Series to feature Chicago Brass Quintet Feb. 16
The Fermilab Gallery Chamber Series continues Sunday, Feb. 16, with Chicago Brass Quintet. The concert will begin at 2:30 p.m. in the art gallery at Fermilab, off Pine Street in Geneva.
Tickets are $18 and includes a post-performance reception. For tickets, call the box office at (630) 840-ARTS, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, or visit events.fnal.gov.
As Chicago's original brass quintet, these five virtuosi possess the technical and musical mastery needed to perform music of all periods and styles with equal aplomb.
The Chicago Brass Quintet brings style, grace, dazzling technique and humor to every performance.
Their concert will include antiphonal music by Gabrieli as well as works by Vivaldi, Morricone, and "Chicago Scenes" by Mark Elliot.
The quintet has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Highlights have included guest performances for the International Trumpet Guild Conference in New York and London, a two-and-a-half-week tour of Hawaii, performances at the Kennedy Center, West Point Academy, numerous tours throughout Illinois and the Midwest, the South, and East Coast, and two tours of Brazil and Taiwan.
The quintet has enjoyed a close association with Chicago's fine arts radio station, WFMT, often performing live from their studios for broadcast over National Public Radio and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. in Canada. The group is comprised of Ross Beacraft and Matthew Lee, trumpet; Sharon Jones, French horn; Adam Moen, trombone; and Dan Anderson, tuba.
The Gallery Chamber Series will wrap up the 2019-20 season with the Frisson Ensemble on Sunday, March 29, in the art gallery. Tickets are $18.
From New York City, the Frisson Ensemble features the best and brightest of classical music's rising stars drawn from many of the nation's major music schools including Juilliard, Curtis, and Yale. Frisson showcases a myriad rarely performed masterworks.
Listen and enjoy as Frisson expands and contracts into a variety of ensembles, including quintets, sextets, nonets, and a small chamber orchestra.
Frisson's core instrumentation consists of violin, viola, cello, double bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and French horn.