SYMPHONY No.5
also
MOZART
Piano Concerto KV 488
conductor
CHARLES OLIVIERI-MUNROE
18th May, FRI 7:00 pm
The ensemble was founded on 1979 by Tadeusz Kassak - the group’s artistic director. The musicians graduated from the Academy of Music in Gdańsk and are the members of the Symphonic Orchestra of the Polish Baltic Philharmonic.
The quartet’s vast repertoire includes works ranging from the early baroque to the contemporary times. The ensemble has also been successfully playing jazz standards and popular music. The Gdańsk Philharmonic Brass has given numerous concerts abroad (including Austria, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Bulgaria) In Poland only, it played nearly 2,000 recitals and concerts - some of them with organ and other orchestras. The quartet cooperates with a sensational jazz trio (Olo Walicki, Leszek Możdżer, Maurice de Martin) forming together a group called “Metalla Pretiosa”.
A separate programme is presented by the ensemble playing together with the Choir of the University of Gdańsk conducted by Marcin Tomczak. The quartet’s work includes many world-premieres of music pieces written specially for them by Polish and foreign composers, a lot radio and TV recordings, their own vinyl and CD records.
The Gdańsk Philharmonic Brass are:
Janusz Szadowiak - trumpet, piccolo trumpet, flugelhorn
Adam Stachowiak - trumpet, flugelhorn
Mirosław Merchel - horn
Tadeusz Kassak - bass trombone
Contact: Tadeusz Kassak
mobile phone: +48 509 306 813
