Gustavus Features U of MN Quartet Saturday Posted on April 8th, 2015 by

The University of Minnesota Trombone Quartet

The University of Minnesota Trombone Quartet

The Department of Music at Gustavus is pleased to present the University of Minnesota Trombone Quartet in a public performance in Jussi Björling Recital Hall on Saturday, April 11. This recital by students in the graduate school of music at the University will begin at 1:30 p.m. Admission is free. Tickets are not required.

Bass trombonist Chris Allen is a member of the Gustavus Class of 2014 and is a graduate student in performance at the U. He will be joined by trombonists Ian Gregory, Daniel Hinman and Clint Wyatt for this performance. Working with their private instructor, Dr. Tom Ashworth at the University, the quartet has assembled a program that includes original works for trombone and arrangements for trombone of other, older works. They’ll open with Andrew Fox’s Fanfare for Trombones, a Michael Levin arrangement of Claude Debussy’s Trois Chansons, and an arrangement of Michael Praetorius’s Renaissance Dance Suite. The program continues with an Hiroyuki Odagiri arrangement of Contrapunctus IX by Johann Sebastian Bach, Poéme d’Amour by James Stephenson and Eric Ewazen’s Myths and Legends. The quartet will conclude the concert with a Carolyn Johns’ arrangement of George Gershwin’s They Can’t Take That Away From Me.

Saturday’s concert in Björling Recital Hall performed by the University of Minnesota Trombone Quartet will begin at 1:30 p.m. Tickets are not required. Admission will be free.

 

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