Mary Elizabeth Bowden, trumpet
…Chrysalis Chamber Players. Seraph Brass, an ensemble of America’s top female brass players that was awarded the 2019 American Prize in Chamber Music, has performed at the International Trumpet Guild…
Carols & Choruses
…Spirit Be Joyful The Santa Fe Symphony Brass TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS SONGS Here We Come A Wassailing The Santa Fe Symphony Chorus The Santa Fe Symphony Brass and Organ ANTONIO VIVALDI…
Carols & Choruses
…The Symphony Brass & Organ. This free annual performance at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi is The Symphony’s gift to the Santa Fe community during the holiday…
John Marchiando, Trumpet
…the New Mexico Philharmonic, and is a member of the Summit Brass, Enchantment Brass, Tromba Mundi, Fountain City Brass Band, and MarchianDUO. John appeared as Principal Trumpet with the…
Brynn Marchiando, Principal Trumpet
…and Clark Terry, and has appeared with Stiletto Brass Quintet, Fountain City Brass Band, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Utah Symphony Orchestra and Santa Fe Opera. She is a founding member of…
Jonathan Boen, Horn
…to his interpretations not commonly found in brass playing today. Mr. Boen has served as Principal Horn for the Lyric Opera of Chicago since 1979, a position he secured at…
Program Notes | Bartók Meets Beethoven
…development of the first movement (brass instruments), or in the perpetuum-mobile-like passage of the principal theme of the last movement (strings), and especially in the second movement, in which pairs…
Carols and Choruses
…the glorious sounds of The Symphony Brass & Organ. This annual performance at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi is The Symphony’s gift to the Santa Fe community…
Program Notes | O Roméo, Roméo!
…orchestral fugato, full of trills and stinging attacks, that depicts the street warfare between the Montagues and the Capulets. Their fighting is interrupted by a magnificent entrance of brass instruments…
Program Notes | Firebird
…the end, the variations grow more powerful. No. 10, Passacaglia, is almost expressionistic in its intensity, No. 11 is a Choral scored largely for brass, and the Variations conclude with…
Program Notes | Romantic Legacies
…listeners sense the influence of Dvořák on the second theme here. The slow movement opens with a lovely brass chorale (Price’s marking is here Maestoso: “Majestic”), and this chorale goes…
Program Notes | Mozart, Haydn & Fung
…movement is in minuet-and-trio form, though no one has ever danced to this brisk music, whose fluid lines are spiced by attacks from brass and timpani. The trio section is…
Program Notes | Oceana
…music, and the five movements are mostly in dance forms. The Allegro gets the suite off to a festive start on the sound of ringing brass and racing violins. The…
Christmas Treasures
…Santa Fe! Enjoy a chamber orchestra presentation of Corelli’s Christmas Concerto, conducted by our very own Maestro Guillermo Figueroa, as well as holiday favorites from The Santa Fe Symphony brass,…
Program Notes | Season Opener
…work for 12 brass instruments: four trumpets, four horns, two trombones, bass trombone and tuba. The composer has prepared an introduction to this work: Invictus, meaning “unconquered,” is a short…