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True North
Brass
True North Brass burst onto the scene in 1997, and has since
solidified its reputation as one of the world’s finest
brass ensembles. TNB’s membership includes two outstanding
composer/arrangers who create the ensemble’s fresh and
unique programming. Proudly Canadian in focus and expression
with a truly international outlook, True North Brass has been
welcomed not only in Canada, but in China and throughout North
America.
True North Brass has released four critically acclaimed CD
recordings, been featured on CBC Television’s Opening
Night program, is heard frequently on CBC Radio, and has collaborated
on other recording projects with the Elmer Iseler Singers,
Rick Fox and Lori Cullen.
True North Brass was featured at the International Brass
Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia in March 2000, and performed
at the 2008 International Trumpet Guild Conference in Banff,
Alberta. They accompanied Prime Minister Jean Chrétien’s
1998 trade mission to China, performing recitals in Beijing
and Wuhan and directing masterclasses at the Beijing Conservatory.
The quintet has also performed masterclasses and recitals
at the Boston and New England Conservatories and toured British
Columbia, Ontario, Tennessee, New York, Connecticut, Virginia,
Texas, New Hampshire, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Alabama,
Florida and West Virginia. True North Brass has appeared at
the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival on three occasions, most
recently in 2008. Recent performances of the quintet include
concerts in Birmingham, Michigan, West Liberty, West Virginia,
at the Westben Summer Music Festival, and at the Four Seasons
Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto. In 2008-09, True
North Brass were Artists in Residence at the University of
Western Ontario, and in the summer of 2009 they were in residence
at Music by the Sea in Bamfield, British Columbia.
The members of True North Brass are Yamaha Artists associated
with Yamaha Music Canada.
Please visit http://www.truenorthbrass.com/
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