LOUISVILLE, KY--The International Brass Chamber Music Festival was hosted by the Louisville Brass/University of Louisville on October 11-14, 2008. The festival included performances by the Louisville Brass, Sonus Brass, Spanish Brass, Proteus 7, University of Nebraska Faculty Brass Quintet, Øystein Baadsvik, and the Appalachian Brass Orchestra. Master classes were presented by Lauren Bernofsky, Britton Theurer, Clint Needham, Bruce Heim, the Spanish Brass, and Proteus 7.

In addition to master classes and performances, a brass quintet competition was held. The winning groups were the Obsidian Brass (undergraduate division) and the Axiom Brass (graduate/professional division). A composition contest was held prior to the festival and the winning composers were: Adam Schoenberg-brass quintet, Craig Biondi-brass trio, Corrado Saglietti-brass ensemble (Composition Contest Winners—cash awards); Kyunga Ahn, Kazimierz Machala, Brian Sadler (Excellence in Composition Awards); Christopher Adachi, Allen Cohen, Aleksander Sternfield-Dunn, Edward Jacobs, Philip Orem, David Sampson, Britton Theurer (Director’s Award of Excellence). A number of new works and winning compositions were performed at the IBCMF.

For complete information about the International Brass Chamber Music Festival including reviews, photos, articles, and a detailed listing of the 52 brass chamber music works that were submitted to the festival, please contact info@brasschambermusic.com to receive a free PDF version of the “Journal of the International Brass Chamber Music Festival.”

Photos above(L-R): Louisville Brass—Michael Tunnell, Bruce Heim, John Jones, Brett Schuster, Herb Korselman; Obsidian Brass—Kyle Dobbeck, Mary Tyler, James Morden, Eric Saras, Nina Dorva; Axiom Brass—Guillaume Fortin, Kevin Harrison, Mark Holley, Matthew Oliphant, Dorival Puccini

Spanish Brass Master Class

Sonus Brass

Source: Michael Tunnell