Century Brass quintet

The Century Brass quintet is a traditional brass quintet with five musicians playing a mixture of brass instruments including two trumpets, a French horn, a trombone, and a tuba. Depending on the particular song, the trumpet players may play cornets or trumpets or piccolo trumpets. Some songs and styles also demand a different bass instrument so our low end may be either a tuba or a bass trombone.

Music from many historical periods and musical styles is represented in the repertoire of the Century Brass quintet.

• Music from brass bands of the 1850s through the 1880s
• Rags by Scott Joplin
• Dixieland jazz
• American marches by John Philip Sousa and others
• Rennaissance dances
• Baroque music by Johan Sebastian Bach, Henry Purcell, Johann Pezel, Samuel Scheidt, Giovanni Gabrieli, etc.
• Operatic arrangements by Giuseppi Verdi, George Frederic Handel, etc.
• Orchestral transcriptions by Peter Tchaikovsky, Modeste Mussorgski, Edvard Grieg, Igor Stravinsky, Gustav Holst , etc.
• modern brass quintet pieces by Viktor Ewald, Arthur Frackenpohl, Malcolm Arnold, Robert Nagel, etc.
• Christmas music
• and many more

Please email centurybrass@centurybrass.org with inquiries or to schedule Century Brass for your next event.