ROCO’s celebrated Brass Quintet is returning to The Woodlands in residence at The Woodlands United Methodist Church Chapel for its 2nd season!
The ROCO Brass Quintet is a group from within the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, a professional 40-piece ensemble founded in 2005. Performing throughout the Greater Houston area, the ROCO Brass Quintet champions modern classical music while also performing music from the Renaissance and Baroque eras, as well as jazz. The ensemble offers a unique concert experience, sharing the intimacy, accessibility, and virtuosity of ROCO.
George Chase, trumpet Jason Adams, trumpet
Gavin Reed, horn Thomas Hulten, trombone Jared Lantzy, bass trombone
Concert dates are:
Sundays, 5:00pm
October 16, 2016
January 29, 2017
April 9, 2017
Location
The Woodlands United Methodist Church
The Woodlands United Methodist Church
Lake Woodlands Drive, Spring, TX
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Program
Oct. 16, 2016
“From Russia with valves”
With this first quintet program of the season, the quintet will explore some early chamber music for brass, from composers active in St. Petersburg who were inspired by the string quartet tradition. In addition to being composers, Ramsoe was a violinist and Ewald was a cellist. (Ewald was also a civil engineer!) Böhme moved from Germany to Budapest and finally in 1897 to St. Petersburg. Although much of his music is well known by brass musicians, his Nachtmusik was discovered only recently, and the RBQ is excited to share this gem. The musicians will also perform music composed in a much later period, by Armenian composer Alexander Arutiunian and by Igor Stravinsky.
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Wilhelm Ramsöe, Quartet No. 4
Victor Ewald, Quintet No. 3, Op. 7
Oskar Böhme, Nachtmusik, Op. 44
Alexander Arutiunian, Armenian Scenes
Igor Stravinsky, Fanfare for a New Theater
Jan. 29, 2017
“Crossing over the English Channel”
In their second quintet program, the musicians of the RBQ will perform works of composers from either side of the English Channel (U.K. and France.) Summer Dances by William Mathias is a very lively work in 6 movements. Mathias’ contemporary, Alun Hoddinott, also wrote a very charming work for brass quintet, about 8 years earlier than Mathias, based on Welsh nursery tunes. Patrice Caratini is a French jazz bassist who wrote a wonderful work for quintet, Passages, which crosses over between jazz and classical styles of music.
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William Mathias, Summer Dances
Alun Hoddinott, Quodlibet on Welsh Nursery Tunes
Patrice Caratini, Passages
April 9, 2017
“Music from the Americas”
In their third and final program, the RBQ presents recent works of composers from North and South America, beginning with a fanfare from Jennifer Higdon. David Sampson’s Chesapeake (written in 2010) is a programmatic work, depicting a series of sailing trips off the coast of Maryland. Osvaldo Lacerda was a Brazilian composer who wove folk music into his very colorful and charming 4 movement work for brass. Finally, the RBQ is thrilled to announce our first commissioned work for brass quintet; our friend, Houston-based musician and composer Paul English, will be writing a piece for the group, and we are very excited to share this new work with our audiences in Houston and The Woodlands.
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Jennifer Higdon, Fanfare
David Sampson, Chesapeake
Osvaldo Lacerda, Quinteto Concertante
Paul English, newly commissioned work
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