Meadowlark Presents!
An Encore at the Vineyard
Saturday, September 18, 2010
An evening with the University of Nebraska Brass Quintet at Deer Springs Winery
162nd and Adams, Lincoln, Nebraska
Gates open and dinner will begin to be served at 5:30 p.m.
Darryl White is Associate Professor of Trumpet at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, K. Craig Bircher is Lecturer of Music and Artist-in-Residence at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Associate Principal Trumpet of the Omaha Symphony, Alan Mattingly is Associate Professor of Horn at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Scott Anderson is Professor of Trombone at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Craig Fuller is Senior Lecturer of music at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Principal Tubist of the Omaha Symphony.
The University of Nebraska Brass Quintet is comprised of the faculty from the University of Nebraska. Two members of the group are full-time performers in the Omaha Symphony and each member has played with orchestras, in jazz combos, in brass and woodwind quintets and other ensembles throughout the United States and Europe. As a component of the chamber music program at the University of Nebraska, the quintet is dedicated to the performance of original repertoire works and new music for brass quintet. Recent concerts have featured works by Eric Ewazen, Jan Bach, Witold Lutoslawski, Juraj Filas, Rayner Brown, Anthony Plog, Desire Dondeyne, Andre Previn and Michael Kamen. The group also enjoys performing jazz, blues and pop transcriptions either by members of the group or by others. The University of Nebraska Brass Quintet recently commissioned a new work entitled "Copernicus for Brass Quintet and Wind Band" and did the US and European premiers of the piece in Lincoln and Prague, Czech Republic, respectively. The University of Nebraska Brass Quintet has toured extensively throughout the United States and Europe.
