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Pictured are (left to right) members:
Jack Masarie (founding member—horn),
Virginia Keast (trumpet), Edward Bach (trumpet),
Randy Kohlenberg (trombone),
and Dennis Askew (tuba). The Market Street Brass was founded in 1974 as the resident faculty brass quintet at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The quintet performs music in all styles from Renaissance to jazz in a variety of settings. Some 50 or more engagements per year include concerts, services, and music for special events. Particularly noteworthy are the many Christmas Concerts and performances in church services during the months of November and December. Members of the Market Street Brass include: Edward Bach, trumpet
Virginia Keast, trumpet
Jack Masarie, horn
Randy Kohlenberg, trombone
Dennis AsKew, tuba The Market Street Brass has performed throughout the United States for professional music education conferences, public and private schools, college and universities, and concert series. In August 2005, the Market Street Brass traveled to China to perform concerts in Beijing and Changsha. In Beijing, concerts were played in the Forbidden City Concert Hall and the Peking University Concert Hall. In Changsha, the concert was broadcast live on Chinese television.
In May 2004, the MSB was featured at the General Conference of the United Methodist Church in Pittsburgh, PA, and during the 2003-2004 academic year presented concerts in a tour of South Texas (Brownsville, Harlingen, Weslaco), the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex, Kansas City (Missouri and Kansas) area, as well as numerous programs throughout North and South Carolina.
The Market Street Brass travels annually to Pawleys Island, South Carolina, to complete a perfoming and teaching residency in the Waccamaw Elementary, Middle, and High Schools. In Fall 2004, the MSB as a collaborative effort with the Randolph County [NC] Schools focused upon performing in some 19 elementary, middle, and high schools. 
The Market Street Brass performing at the General Conference
(May 2004) of the United Methodist Church, Pittsburgh, PA
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