Collaborations
The Trillium Brass Quintet's range of repertoire, wide experience, and talent and skill for arrangements, make it an ideal ensemble for collaborative efforts. We have been involved in a number of concert projects with organists, choirs (including a CD), and orchestra. Recent projects include an innovative performance of Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah (with the orchestra grandly reconceptulalized for organ and brass), as feature artists in a symphonic show, and the more usual, but no less stirring, concerts for organ and brass.
Please click on a tab below to see some of our recent programs.
Orchestra only piece Montgomery/Applebaum (1918-2000) Boyce/Rosenthal/Mozart/Cable/Rossini Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Peter Warlock (1894-1930) Orchestra only piece |
Giovanni Gabrielli (c. 1554-1612) Robert Russell Bennett (1854-1981) Orchestra only piece Charles Ives (1874-1954) |
In an unique concert presentation, The Trillium Brass Quintet, Ian Sadler, and the Georgian Bay Concert Choir presented Mendelssohn's grand oratorio Elijah. TBQ was pleased to take on this large scale commission for the Georgian Bay Concert Choir. Scott Harrison of TBQ transcribed the full orchestral score for brass quintet plus organ, which covered a wide range of sonoroties while maintaining the majesty and breadth of the oratorio. As a bonus, the five brass players fitted nicely in the small loft behind the choir (something that a full orchestra would have had difficulty doing!) For an idea of how our trancriptions can work, please click here to view the opening section brass parts. |
The Trillium Brass Quintet has a long history of wide experince of collaborative efforts with organ. It has been our pleasure to work with many esteemed organists including Christopher Dawes, Michael Bloss, Peter Merrick, Ian Sadler, Frederic DeVries, Thomas Fitches, and Andrew Agar.
Such perfomances are always a partnership, with musical inspirations flowing from pre-exisiting repertoire, or adaptations from other sources.
While we are always happy to explore new repertoire, past repertoire includes:
Bach, Air from Suite no. 3
Litaize, Cortège
Faure, Requiem
Bales, Festival Fanfare
Vierne, March Triomphale
Peeters, Entrada Festiva
Hovhaness, Prayer of St. Gregory
Campra, Rigaudon
Handel, Musik for the Royal Fireworks
Widor, Salvum Fac Populum Tuum
Vaughan Williams, Three Preludes
Monteverdi, Tocatta
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