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The Meridian Arts Ensemble, heard by the late Howard Smith. '... an unusually broad span of inspired composition.'
2015-10-21 07:00:08
Classical music: The Wisconsin Brass Quintet performs a FREE concert Thursday night on the UW-Madison campus.
[…] Here is some background about the Wisconsin Brass Quintet: Founded in 1972, the Wisconsin Brass Quintet is a faculty ensemble-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music . The quintet’s musical expertise has been acknowledged by Verne Reynolds, Jan Bach, Karel Husa, John Harbison, Daron Hagen and many other composers. In addition to performing with the WBQ, the players have also been members of the American Brass Quintet, Empire Brass Quintet and Meridian Arts Ensemble . Quintet members John Stevens and Daniel Grabois and former member Douglas Hill have also composed many works for the group. With extensive performances throughout the Midwest and nationally, including appearances at New York’s Carnegie Recital Hall and Merkin Concert Hall, the quintet’s educational programs and master classes have been presented in such prestigious settings as The Juilliard School and the Yale School of Music . The quintet performs annual live radio […]
2014-02-10 07:00:43
Classical music: Brass Week in Madison kicks off with tuba and French horn concerts at the University of Wisconsin by John Stevens and Daniel Grabois, who will highlight works by contemporary UW composers.
[…] (2000) by Les Thimmig; “Soliloquy in June” (2000) by Les Thimmig; the world premiere “Antilogy” (2014) by Daniel Grabois; Sonata for Horn and Piano (2008) by John Stevens; and “Song at Dusk” (2000) by Les Thimmig . Daniel Grabois is Assistant Professor of Horn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music . The former Chair of the Department of Contemporary Performance at the Manhattan School of Music , he is the hornist in the Meridian Arts Ensemble , a sextet of brass and percussion soon to celebrate its 25th anniversary. With Meridian, he has performed over 50 world premieres, released 10 CDs , received two ASCAP/CMA Adventuresome Programming Awards, and toured worldwide, in addition to recording or performing with rock legends Duran Duran and Natalie Merchant and performing the music of Frank Zappa for the composer himself. The author/composer of two etude books for horn, Grabois has […]
2013-10-21 07:00:52
Classical music Q&A: Science and music will meet again this Friday night in a FREE lecture-concert at the second SoundWaves program at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
By Jacob Stockinger This Friday night, Oct. 25, at 7 p.m. in the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery , this season’s second SoundWaves event will take place. It is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. The curator of the unusual program that combines science and music is University of Wisconsin -Madison horn professor Daniel Grabois. Besides teaching, he also performs in the Gretzler band with his colleague UW trombonist Mark Hetzler , the Meridian Arts Ensemble and the Wisconsin Brass Quintet. For some background about the program and the first concert-lecture in September, which featured songs by Gustav Mahler, here is a link to a terrific interview with Grabois on the UW School of music blog “Fanfare”: http://uwmadisonschoolofmusic.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/soundwaves9-26-2013/ Grabois (below) recently offered The Ear a Q&A about this week’s lecture-concert and about the program in general. Here it is: What is SoundWaves? SoundWaves is a series I started last […]
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