The Market
Street Brass before the 2004
Annual Christmas Concert
at the Canterbury School,
Greensboro, NC
(left to right) Edward Bach, Randy Kohlenberg,
Dennis AsKew,
Jack
Masarie, and Virginia Keast
(photo courtesy of Randy
Mintz)
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MSB Bios.
Edward
Bach has been
the leader of the Market Street Brass and principal trumpet
player since 1991 when he came to Greensboro from Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada. He is a professor of music at the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro where teaches trumpet
and conducts brass ensembles. Bach holds the doctoral degree
from The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and
also was the trumpet professor at Brandon University, in Brandon,
Manitoba. He also has performed extensively in orchestras
in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Victoria, and other Canadian Orchestras,
and his performances continue to be heard on the Canadian
Broadcasting Company (CBC). Bach received international acclaim
as the leader and principal trumpet player in A Touch of Brass,
a Vancouver based group that played concerts around the world,
and which issued numerous award-winning recordings. He was
a finalist in 1992 in the prestigious Concert Artist Guild’s
competition in New York City. In addition to recordings of
the Market Street Brass, Bach is heard on the recordings,
Infinity and Contrasts, both of which feature some of the
most virtuosic trumpet music in the repertoire and have received
widespread critical acclaim. An active solo performer throughout
the US and Canada, Bach is a frequent adjudicator at the National
Trumpet Competition in Washington, DC.
Virginia Keast, originally
from Bossier City, Louisiana, is the second trumpet player
and most recent addition to the Market Street Brass. Keast
is a doctoral candidate at The University of North Carolina
at Greensboro (UNCG), where she teaches trumpet. Keast received
her master’s degree from UNCG and her baccalaureate
degree from Louisiana Tech State University. Currently she
is a first-call, freelance trumpet player in central piedmont
area of North Carolina, and she is an administrative assistant
for the UNCG Summer Music Camp, the largest summer music program
in the United States. Keast has performed on numerous occasions
as a soloist in the National Trumpet Competition in Washington,
DC, and also at the same festival, performed in the award-winning
UNCG Trumpet Ensemble, conducted by Edward Bach.
Jack Masarie
is a founding member in 1974 of the Market Street Brass and
has been a member of the faculty at The University of North
Carolina at Greensboro as the horn professor since that time.
He is a former member of the Detroit, Toledo, and Greensboro
symphony orchestras, and has performed extensively in the
Roanoke and Lynchburg (Virginia), Winston-Salem and Charlotte,
NC, and the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra. A graduate
of The Julliard School in New York City and Bowling Green
State University (Ohio), Masarie performed and taught at the
acclaimed Brevard Music Center (NC) for eighteen summers.
He is highly regarded authority in brass history and pedagogy
and performs and lectures regularly at the Historical Brass
Society Conference, the Southeast Horn Workshop, and the International
Horn Society Festival. Originally from California, Masarie
is considered to be one of the foremost authorities in the
area of natural horn, the valveless predecessor of the modern
instrument.
Randy Kohlenberg
has been the trombonist in the Market Street Brass since coming
to The University of North Carolina at Greensboro as trombone
professor in 1985. Originally from Austin, Texas, he began
his career as an instrumental music instructor in the public
schools and has taught at the University of Oklahoma and Morningside
College (Sioux City, Iowa). He holds the PhD in Music from
Oklahoma and has been recognized for his work in the field
of music education, as an orchestra conductor, and in the
International Trombone Association. Kohlenberg’s well-known
UNCG Trombone Ensemble has performed at the International
Trombone Festival and at the Eastern Trombone Workshop in
Washington, DC, on several occasions. He presented a Carnegie
Recital Hall debut concert in New York City in 1987 as a member
of the ROKOKO-DUETTE, and has performed in recital across
the US and Canada. Kohlenberg is the editor of several monumental
historical works for trombone and author of numerous articles
and texts regarding music teaching and research.
Dennis AsKew has performed solo recitals
throughout the United States and in Italy, Finland, Hungary,
Australia, and The Netherlands. President of the International
Tuba/Euphonium Association, he came to The University of North
Carolina at Greensboro as the tuba and euphonium professor
in 1992 and became a member of the Market Street Brass. AsKew,
originally from Georgia, holds the DMA degree from the University
of Michigan, the master’s degree from Penn State University,
and baccalaureate degree from the University of Georgia. His
renowned UNCG Tuba/Euphonium Ensemble has performed at festivals
around the world. AsKew was the host of the 2002 International
Tuba/Euphonium Conference held at UNC Greensboro. His solo
tuba recording, Carolina Morning, has achieved wide critical
acclaim and worldwide distribution. AsKew also is a national
Associate Regent for Pi Kappa Lambda, the prestigious international
honor society for musicians
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