Rose City Brass Quintet + Drums
Featuring
Logan Thane Brown, trumpet
Lars Campbell, Trombone
Sergio Carreño, percussion
JáTtik Clark, Tuba
Joseph Klause, Trumpet
Daniel Partridge, Horn
Tonight’s Program
Mini Overture
Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994)
for brass quintet and percussion
Dave Ballou (b. 1964)
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Thom Yorke (b. 1968)
arr. Lars Campbell (b. 1978)
Paranoid Android
Thom Yorke (b. 1968)
arr. Charley Gray (b. 1952)
— INTERMISSION —
Corpus
David Sanford (b. 1963)
Antiphon
Introit
Shot
Kreuz/Männer
De Profundis
Sermon
Suite from Maria de Buenos Aires
Astor Piazzola (1921-1992)
arr. Steven Verhelst (b. 1981)
About the Artists
Sergio Carreno joined the Oregon Symphony as a member of the percussion section in 2012. Hailing from Miami, FL, Sergio developed an eclectic musical taste which has led to collaboration with symphony orchestras, theater productions, dance companies, chamber music ensembles, and Latin, rock, and jazz bands.
Sergio has performed with The Cleveland Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and San Francisco Symphony, among others. He toured the U.S. several times with the Dallas Brass, and has appeared as a soloist with the Oregon Symphony and the New World Symphony. Sergio was a New World Symphony fellow for four seasons under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, with whom he performed in Europe, South America, New York’s Carnegie Hall, and on PBS Great Performances. He holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, a student of Timothy Adams Jr.
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 Logan Thane Brown and Joseph Klause 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 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.
Copies of Disquiet and the Joregensen EP will will be for sale tonight
You can purchase a digital copy of disQuiet online
For those of you tuning in from home, you can buy a physical copy of disQuiet online as well
What’s up next for RCBQ?
Our next two scheduled performances are free, and happen on the same week in April!
The first is a performance on April 18th for Clackamas Community College’s concert series, Tuesday at 2. This will be livestreamed on CCC’s YouTube channel, so if you can’t make it in person at 2pm, watch the livestream on this page! Our performance will also be posted there for posterity.
Just a few days later, continuing a three-year tradition, RCBQ will be performing a Pop-Up Concert for Classical Up Close. This year, we will be performing at Beaverton City Library on April 21st at 4pm.
Bookmark our website's performances page to keep up-to-date with all of the Rose City Brass Quintet’s performances!
If you’re excited about our album disQuiet, and the new Live EP Series, then you’ll be stoked to hear about all our upcoming recording plans… but for now, we’re going to leave them shrouded in a veil of secrecy!
Thank You
If you love what we do and are interested in helping us to continue to find innovative programming, and present concerts that inspire and engage our community, we can always use financial assistance. Please donate to our project through Venmo @RoseCityBrass or through PayPal at paypal.me/RoseCityBrass.