trumpets:

Andrea Dell'Ira
1st Trumpet of the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Marco Crusca
 



horn:

Luca Benucci
1st Horn of the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino



trombone:

Andrea D'Amico
 



tuba:

Mario Barsotti
solo tuba of the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino


This group is formed by some members of the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, joined by firendship and musicality. The high level and the virtuosism of its members enable them to deliver performances of great quality. It has a wide repertory, consisting of original pieces and of arrangements of all times.

The quintet has already performed in many Festivals, as it was invitet at: Antey-St-André (Val d'Aosta), Santa Fiora in Musica (Toscana), Ouverture Toscana 2001 (Siena), Minori (Salerno), Ancona Musica, Urbino Festival, Estate Musicale Imprunetina, Teatro Ponchielli di Cremona, Gargano Festival, La Spezia Società dei concerti, Syracuse University, Brass Festival in Nus, Brass festival in Brescia, Art is Life in Rome, Napoli nova Festival ,Madonie Festival, and others.

The members of the Italian Brass Quintet are quite active as teachers in courses and master classes in Italy, Europe and other countries. They are the coaches of the World Youth Orchestra, Accademia Mimesis Maggio Arte, Accademia Santa Fiora in Musica.

The musicians of the I.B.Q. played in many of the most prestigious halls under conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Seji Ozawa, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Semyon Bichkov, Myung-Whun Chung, Carlo Maria Giulini, Riccardo Chailly, Simon Rattle, Claudio Abbado,Berhard Haiting, and individually they have been guest players in the Berliner Philarmoniker, Israel Philarmonic, Deutsche Oper Berlin, N.D.R., M.D.R., W.D.R., Bayrisches Rundfunk, Orchestre de Paris and others.

ADDRESS:

ITALIAN BRASS QUINTET
Via Monteverdi 11
50144 FIRENZE, ITALY
Tel.&Fax 055/353855

EMAIL: italianbrassquintet@katamail.com


CONCERT PROGRAMS
PROGRAM N.1:
J. S. Bach Aria sulla quarta corda
J. S. Bach Fuga in Fa Minore
W. A. Mozart Alleluia
G. Verdi Marcia trionfale dellĠAida
R. Wagner Coro dei Pellegrini
R. Strauss Trisch Trasch Polka
F. Dedrik Nobody Know
Beatles Suite
A.Piazzolla Liber Tango
J. Williams Schindler List
E. Mancini Pink Panter
 
PROGRAM N.2:Quintet and Opera
P. Mascagni Intermezzo Cavalleria Rusticana
G. Verdi Arias from Nabucco, La Forza Del Destino, Il Trovatore, La Traviata
G. Puccini Arias from La Boheme,Tosca, Manon Lescaut
G. Rossini Arias from Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Gazza Ladra
 
PROGRAM N.3:
Dukas Fanfare from "La Peri"
Bach Introduktion und Fuge
Albinoni Sonata "St.Mark"
Bizet Carmen Suite
Rossini L'italiana in Algeri, ouverture
Khachaturian Danza delle spade
Debussy The girl with the flaxen hair
Fucik Entry of the gladiators
Handy St.Luis blues
Gershwin 4 hits for five