This group is formed by musicians from various Italian institutions, joined by firendship and musicality. The high level and the virtuosism of its members enable them to deliver performances of great quality. It has a wide repertory, consisting of original pieces and of arrangements of all times.
The quintet has already performed in many Festivals, as it was invitet at: Antey-St-André (Val d'Aosta), Santa Fiora in Musica (Toscana), Ouverture Toscana 2001 (Siena), Minori (Salerno), Ancona Musica, Urbino Festival, Estate Musicale Imprunetina, Teatro Ponchielli di Cremona, Gargano Festival, La Spezia Società dei concerti, Syracuse University, Brass Festival in Nus, Brass festival in Brescia, Art is Life in Rome, Napoli nova Festival ,Madonie Festival, and others.
The members of the Italian Brass Quintet are quite active as teachers in courses and master classes in Italy, Europe and other countries. They are the coaches of the World Youth Orchestra, Accademia Mimesis Maggio Arte, Accademia Santa Fiora in Musica.
The musicians of the I.B.Q. played in many of the most prestigious halls under conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Seji Ozawa, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Semyon Bichkov, Myung-Whun Chung, Carlo Maria Giulini, Riccardo Chailly, Simon Rattle, Claudio Abbado,Berhard Haiting, and individually they have been guest players in the Berliner Philarmoniker, Israel Philarmonic, Deutsche Oper Berlin, N.D.R., M.D.R., W.D.R., Bayrisches Rundfunk, Orchestre de Paris and others.
trumpets:
Davide Simoncini
free-lancer and teacher at the Conservatory of Cesena
free-lancer and teacher at the Conservatory of Cesena
Fabrizio Fabrizi
1st trumpet at the Theater S.Carlo - Neaples
1st trumpet at the Theater S.Carlo - Neaples
horn:
Luca Benucci
1st Horn of the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
1st Horn of the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
trombone:
Andrea Conti
Ist trombone at the Accademia di S.Cecilia - Rome
Ist trombone at the Accademia di S.Cecilia - Rome
tuba:
Mario Barsotti
solo tuba of the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
solo tuba of the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
PROGRAM N.1:
J. S. Bach
Aria sulla quarta corda
J. S. Bach
Fuga in Fa Minore
W. A. Mozart
Alleluia
G. Verdi
Marcia trionfale dell’Aida
R. Wagner
Coro dei Pellegrini
R. Strauss
Trisch Trasch Polka
F. Dedrik
Nobody Know
Beatles
Suite
A.Piazzolla
Liber Tango
J. Williams
Schindler List
E. Mancini
Pink Panter
PROGRAM N.2: Quintet and Opera
P. Mascagni
Intermezzo Cavalleria Rusticana
G. Verdi
Arias from Nabucco, La Forza Del Destino,
Il Trovatore, La Traviata
G. Puccini
Arias from La Boheme,Tosca, Manon Lescaut
G. Rossini
Arias from Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Gazza Ladra
PROGRAM N.3:
Dukas
Fanfare from "La Peri"
Bach
Introduktion und Fuge
Albinoni
Sonata "St.Mark"
Bizet
Carmen Suite
Rossini
L'italiana in Algeri, ouverture
Khachaturian
Danza delle spade
Debussy
The girl with the flaxen hair
Fucik
Entry of the gladiators
Handy
St.Luis blues
Gershwin
4 hits for five
CONCERT PROGRAMS
