Let the Trumpets Sound! - The Philadelphia Brass

“One of the gems of Philadelphia’s cultural life.” Martin Goldsmith, NPR’s Performance Today

Let the Trumpets Sound! Celebrate the Christmas Season on Sunday, December 8, 2024 at 2 PM in Lincoln Hall with the majestic sounds of glorious brass music performed by “one of the gems of Philadelphia’s cultural life,” the PHILADELPHIA BRASS, who turned “the audience into something resembling a cheering section, while at the same time leaving them breathless.” From the stage of the Royal Albert Hall to the heights of the Bolivian Andes, the Philadelphia Brass has been acclaimed for their technical brilliance and superb musicality – their “artistry of the highest caliber.”

Give the Gift of Christmas Music… bring your family – and prepare your hearts for the Holiday Season, inspired by the quintet’s “dazzling” virtuosity in Christmas carols and beloved sacred holiday music from their two Christmas recordings – “Christmas” and “Christmas in the Grand Tradition.”

Be sure to reserve or buy online early, as this concert will sell out.

Formed in 1988 and a top prizewinner in the prestigious Raphael Mendez Competition, Philadelphia Brass performs the finest brass literature in diverse repertoire of all styles and periods with a “cohesiveness seldom heard in live chamber music” as they promote the enjoyment of chamber music among audiences of all ages and interests.

Individually, the members of Philadelphia Brass have performed with the world’s top musical ensembles, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, among many others.

The ensemble has toured extensively throughout the United States, the United Kingdom and has completed two well-received tours to Bolivia on behalf of the U.S. State Department in collaboration with the Asociacion pro Arte y Cultura’s Baroque Festival based in Santa Cruz. Daniel Pinkham’s Creation of the World, a work for brass, organ, choir, and narrator co-commissioned by Philadelphia Brass and 13 presenters across the country, was premiered by Philadelphia Brass in 1995. Other premiers have included commissioned works by David Diamond, J.A.C. Redford, Robert Elkjer, Jack Gale, Dick Hyman and Paul Salerni.

Philadelphia Brass has produced five CDs- two of which are dedicated to Christmas music: “Renaissance and Baroque”, “Joan Lippincott and Philadelphia Brass”, “Christmas”, “Christmas in the Grand Tradition” with Peter Conte and the Wanamaker Organ, “The Anniversary Album”, and is featured in Family Portrait and Smoky Mountain Fanfare, two pieces on the new Summit Records CD, “David Sampson – Notes from Far Away Places”.