The award winning Manhattan Brass Quintet is best known for its innovative programming, dynamic performances varied, eye-opening repertoire, and and commitment to educating audiences of all ages about live music and the brass idiom.  Currently in its fifteenth season, the ensemble is an amalgam of individual virtuoso musicians, each bringing to the table their unique experience and vision. Comfortable in every genre from Gesualdo to jazz, the quintet is intent on taking brass ensemble playing to another level and bringing their audience with them.

In addition to its standard repertoire, the quintet places an emphasis on dynamic programming and on the commissioning and performance of new works, especially those which integrate new or unique styles into the repertoire. Throughout its history the quintet has commissioned and premiered the works of a wide range of composers, including jazz greats Wynton Marsalis and Paquito D' Rivera.

The quintet's members are New York area freelance musicians - performing in a wide variety of settings in and around New York and around the world. In any given week, one may see members of the Manhattan Brass performing in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, jazz clubs throughout the city or in Broadway pits. The quintet's members are involved in multiple projects of their own as well; this diversity gives the Manhattan Brass Quintet a varied style that reflects performance experience which, if amassed, would total over 100 years. The quintet has been featured on National Public Radio's "Performance Today," has appeared as featured artists in recital on Japanese network NHK-TV's "The Classical Hour," won or placed in numerous competitions, and educated hundreds of thousands of eager young minds in educational workshops and masterclasses.

Please visit their website for more information about The Manhattan Brass Quintet.

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