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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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