Sonus Brass Ensemble

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Sonus Brass Ensemble
The Sonus Brass Ensemble 2017
The Sonus Brass Ensemble 2017
General information
Genre (s) Classic
founding 1994
Website http://www.sonusbrass.at/
Founding members
Trumpet, piccolo, flugelhorn
 Stefan Dünser
Trumpet, flugelhorn
 Attila Krako
horn
 Andreas Schuchter
trombone
 Wolfgang Bilgeri
tuba
 Harald Schele
former members
Michael Wachter, (1994-2004)
Silke Allmayer (1994-2008)

The Sonus Brass Ensemble was founded in 1994 and is a classical brass quintet. The ensemble operates throughout Europe and beyond (USA, also Asia). With two trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba, this ensemble plays at numerous well-known festivals and concert halls as well as many smaller venues. This ensemble first became known for its very successful music education concerts, such as B. "Die Blecharbeiter" (2004) or Rocky Roccoco (2008) for which the ensemble received international awards. The ensemble comes from Vorarlberg in the western part of Austria. The ensemble is primarily dedicated to classical music, but also experiments in other musical genres. With appearances z. The Sonus Brass Ensemble is an integral part of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Wiener Musikverein, the Konzerthaus Wien, the Lucerne Festival, the Philharmonics Cologne and Luxembourg, the MDR Festival, the Schleswig Holstein Festival, the Bregenz Festival and many other prominent concert venues the concert scene.

history

The two trumpeters Stefan Dünser and Michael Wachter founded the Sonus Brass Ensemble in 1994. The first teachers were Edward Tarr and Jean Pierre Mathez. The young brass quintet began to commission compositions in the first few years after it was founded. Some of the more than 25 premiered works can now be found in the classical brass repertoire. The ensemble completed numerous concert tours on behalf of Jeunesse Wien and subsequently expanded its field of activity to the whole of Europe. The Bregenz Festival , the Lucerne Festival , the Philharmonie Luxembourg , the Cologne Philharmonie , Jeunesse Konzerthaus Vienna and many more. are now permanent partners of the ensemble. At the beginning of 2002, the ensemble developed an excellent reputation as a music mediator throughout the German-speaking region. International awards followed as well as tours to the USA and Asia. Examples of projects: 2004 “Die Blecharbeiter” (Find it Award), 2008 “Rocky Roccoco” (Yeah EARopean Award), 2009 “The Emperor's New Clothes”, 2013 “Robin Hood, too good to be true”, 2018 “Die Verblecherbande ". In 2014 "mezzotragisch" was created, a staged evening concert. 2018 "Leichtsinn" and "Lucera" The ensemble has awarded 25 compositions to date. Composers with whom the ensemble has worked so far: Werner Pirchner, Tristan Schulze, Mike Svoboda, Herbert Willi, Christoph Dienz, Peter Madsen, Volker Michael Plangg, Murat Üstün, Gerold Amann, Gerald Futscher and others. a.

Sound carrier and DVD

CDs

  • Sonus Brass steps on the gas 1998
  • Of wolves and people 2000 (with Christian Brückner)
  • Episodes 2002
  • Barocco 2008
  • Insieme 2010
  • mezzo tragic 2014

DVD

  • Rocky Roccoco 2010
  • The Verblecherband 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Young EARopean Award 2011
  2. ↑ musicaustria.at vo. October 8, 2014: “We're sailing close to the wind”: A portrait of SONUS BRASS. Retrieved January 9, 2015 .