Acrostic Sounds

Featuring

Logan Thane Brown, trumpet

Lars Campbell, Trombone

JáTtik Clark, Tuba

Joseph Klause, Trumpet

Daniel Partridge, Horn

 
 
 
 

Program


Go
Anthony DiLorenzo (B. 1967)

Copperwave
Joan Towner (B. 1938)

Book of Brass: Glide & Fade
 Jennfier Higdon (b. 1962)

Passages
 Patrice Caratini (B. 1946)

  1. Allegro

  2. Moderato

  3. Vivace

  4. Calme

  5. Allant, Sans Presser

— INTERMISSION —

Khirkiyaan
 Reena Esmail (b. 1963)

  1. Jōg

  2. joota

  3. tuttarana

Book of Brass: Acrostic
 Jennfier Higdon (b. 1962)

Ludi Caeli
Tomi Räisänen (B. 1976)

  1. praeabulum durum

  2. Interludium intimum

  3. Postludium Profundum

 
 

Pan-American Expressions

 

With Pan-American Expressions, Rose City Brass Quintet invites listeners on a musical journey spanning the Americas – from the tango halls of Buenos Aires to the Broadway lights of New York and beyond. As the ensemble’s second full-length album (following their acclaimed 2022 debut Disquiet), this release reflects RCBQ’s commitment to musical excellence and inclusivity, highlighting works by historically underrepresented composers and vibrant cultural storytelling. The album’s repertoire ranges from Astor Piazzolla’s sultry Argentine tango rhythms to Leonard Bernstein’s iconic West Side Story melodies, and from Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Brazilian soundscapes to contemporary pieces by Cuban-born Tania León and jazz legend Paquito D’Rivera. Guest artists – percussionist Sergio Carreño on cajón and mezzo-soprano Sarah Beaty – join the quintet on select tracks, adding unique rhythmic and vocal colors. The result is a captivating panorama of pan-American music that exemplifies Rose City Brass Quintet’s vision of engaging, inclusive, and unforgettable brass performance.

 
 

About RCBQ

 

Artistry through diversity: the Rose City Brass Quintet strives to present innovative, compelling,  and immersive concert programming with an intentional focus on the music of women, people of color, and other historically underrepresented composers. They are avid proponents of locally composed music, and strive to collaborate with local artists of the Pacific Northwest. 

Founded in 2018, RCBQ features Joseph Klause and Logan Thane Brown on trumpet, Dan Partridge on horn, Lars Campbell on trombone, and JáTtik Clark on tuba. The musicians of RCBQ play in Oregon's top orchestras, and teach at many of the area’s colleges and universities; despite their differing backgrounds and professions, they are united in their love of high-quality original brass quintet literature, and the desire to share that under-performed repertoire with an ever-widening audience. 

 
 

About RCBQ’s Other Recordings

disQuiet is Rose City Brass Quintet’s first album. It was a project conceived during the global pandemic of 2020. While much of the world was shut down due to the spread of the novel coronavirus SARS-COV2, a cultural upwelling was simultaneously occurring throughout the United States around racial unity and justice. Living in an epicenter of this alchemical moment, RCBQ used this challenging environment to incubate: finding our voice as an ensemble and developing new art to help us understand the world we found ourselves now inhabiting.

Four of the pieces on disQuiet were written during this period: some focusing on the isolation of the pandemic, others around the racial inequities that permeate our society. Pairing these new works with existing brass quintet literature that speaks to the themes of oppression and isolation via the tragedies of the Greensboro Massacre and tyrannical Communism in Czechoslovakia, we aim to grapple, imperfectly, with this shared moment of disquiet. We humbly present this experience for chamber music listeners to remember 2020: an era unique to our generation; a year that challenged us to engage and struggle with our intellectual, cultural and philosophical ideals, a year filled with moments of desolation and strife, of shared humanity and love, of anger, frustration, and of hope.

RCBQ started its Live EP Series with a relatively unknown gem by Danish composer, Axel Jorgenson. If you like romantic era chamber music, then give this piece a listen; we think you'll agree that we've found a new standard for brass quintet! This four movement work has an operatic slow movement, a lively minuet, and two outer movements that really show off the romantic era capacity of the brass. 

Joining forces with the PNW’s trumpet goddess Sarah Viens, RCBQ continued its Live EP Series by recording Oskar Böhme’s Trompeten-Sextett. Recorded in just one morning in Eugene, Oregon’s Beall Hall, this four movement tour de force showcases the beauty of the late romantic era’s technical and lyrical brass writing.

 

Physical copies of Pan-American Expressions, Disquiet, the Joregensen EP, and Böhme EP are for sale tonight!

You can purchase a physical or digital copy of our recordings and published music any time on our online store.

 

What’s up next for RCBQ?

We are finalizing our plans for next season! We have a few exciting puzzle pieces that we are moving around the board, so bookmark our website's performances page to keep up-to-date with all of the Rose City Brass Quintet’s performances!