The Diamond Brass will Present A Celebration Concert Sunday, Nov. 24
WOOSTER The Diamond Brass will present A Celebration Concert, sponsored by ˾s Department of Music and the Cultural Events Committee, in Gault Recital Hall of Scheide Music Center (525 E. University St.) on Sunday, Nov. 24, at 7:30 p.m.
The Diamond Brass is comprised of five brass specialists and performers from the Cleveland, area including trumpeters Amanda Bekeny 00, and Nina Bell, Gregg Hillis (horn), Whitney Clair (trombone), and J.C. Sherman (tuba).
The program will feature two works, In the Zone and Ballyhoos and Hullabaloos, by composer Andrew Rindfleisch, who will be in attendance. John Cheethams Scherzo, Michael Galloways arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bachs St. Anne Fugue in Eb major, BMV 552, and Malcolm Arnolds Quintet for Brass, Op. 73, will also be performed.
At ˾, Bekeny is adjunct trumpet instructor and the Brass Chamber music coach. In addition to the Diamond Brass, she is an active performer as a member of the City Music Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, Firelands Symphony, and Olympic Brass Quintet. She can also regularly be heard playing with the Akron Symphony and is a former member of the Ashland Symphony, Mansfield Symphony, and Ohio Light Opera Orchestra. She received a masters degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a doctorate in musical arts degree from The Ohio State University.
Admission is free and open to the public. For more information call 330263-2419.
Posted in News on November 6, 2019.
