Chamber Music Yellow SpringsCongratulations to the Axiom Brass Quintet
Winners of the 2012 Annual Competiton
The Axiom Brass Quintet
The Axiom Brass Quintet: Colin Oldberg, Brett Johnson, Kevin Harrison, Matthew Oliphant, and Dorival Puccini, Jr.
Internationally recognized for their groundbreaking programming, the Axiom Brass Quintet's repertoire ranges from jazz and Latin music to string quartet transcriptions, as well as original compositions for brass quintet. Axiom Brass’ performances have captured the hearts and imaginations of their audiences, leading the ensemble to national radio and television appearances as well as concerts in Asia, Europe and across the U.S. Axiom’s dedication to brass repertoire has led the ensemble to commission and premiere several new works, including recent premieres of Celestial Suite by James Stephenson and For Then and Now by Laurence Bitensky. For Celestial Suite, Axiom Brass partnered with the New York Philharmonic Brass Quintet, the Chicago Symphony Brass Quintet, the Chicago Chamber Musicians and the Fischoff Chamber Music Society, as well as with the Digital Visualization Theater of the University of Notre Dame and Professor Keith Davis.
The Axiom Brass is an Ensemble-in-Residence at the Music Institute of Chicago and performs exclusively on Mutec Mutes. Axiom Brass is pleased to announce their appointment to the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) for the summer of 2012.
Congratulations also to the Akropolis Reed Quintet
The Runners-up in this year's competition.
The Akropolis Quintet was formed at the University of Michigan in January, 2009. The musicians met with the central goal of doing something different with classical music. They perform new classical works written expressly for their unique instrumentation, commissioning accomplished composers to create daring, complex, and accessible music. Akropolis is known for its energy, originality and contagious musical communication on stage. The ensemble has commissioned the work of Babur Tongur, David Heetdekrs, Asaf Peres, Ronnie Tyler, Paul Dooley, Garrett Schumann, Jason Turbin, David Biedenbender, Andrew Kohler and Robbie McCarthy. Akropolis will release their first CD of entirely new classical music next summer.