The Brass Project Celebrates Christmas at Bickford Theatre, 12/18

The Brass Project will bring a spirited program of traditional holiday favorites and winter season pops to the Bickford Theatre at the Morris Museum on Tuesday, December 18, 2018 at 7:30PM. A reception for ticket holders, beginning at 6:00PM, will include the opportunity to visit the Museum's dynamic exhibition, Trumpets, Weird and Wonderful: Treasures from the National Music Museum.

Hailed as "six superb brass players" (Philadelphia Inquirer), The Brass Project is a sextet committed to invigorating the brass chamber music experience through vibrant performance and fearless exploration. This critically acclaimed ensemble will perform a diverse program of holiday favorites performing works by Bach, Tchaikovsky, and Handel alongside popular contemporary hits like Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, and Deck the Halls.

The Brass Project will bring their inspired musicianship to the Bickford Theatre for a joyful holiday program which will be presented in conjunction with the landmark exhibition at the Morris Museum, Trumpets, Weird and Wonderful: Treasures from the National Music Museum. See and hear the sounds of the season through unique pairing of exhibition and concert!

"A sextet focused on diverse styles and audiences" (Musical America), The Brass Project has collaborated with composers from around the world on thirty-five new works, including pieces by Pulitzer Prize winner Aaron Jay Kernis, Princeton Professor Emeritus Paul Lansky, and Rome Prize winner Sean Friar.

In 2016 and 2017 The Brass Project was the ensemble-in-residence at Music from Angel Fire where they were featured by Santa Fe Pro Musica, and in 2018 The Brass Project was the fellowship brass ensemble at the Aspen Music Festival where they were mentored by the American Brass Quintet. Upcoming residencies include Avaloch Farm, Haverford College, the Shalin Liu Performance Center at Rockport Music, St. Mark's Church in Philadelphia, as well as several concerts with "Curtis on Tour of the Curtis Institute of Music".

As part of The Brass Projects initiative to bring music to diverse and underserved communities, the ensemble has worked with young students in over eighty educational concerts across Northern New Mexico and has held multiple residencies in Philadelphia area schools, including South Philadelphia High School and Powel Elementary School.

The Brass Project has been engaged with the Curtis Institute of Music's Community Artists Program for three years, through which they continue to develop new programs to bring their art to the wider world.

The Brass Project appears by special arrangement with "Curtis on Tour, the Nina von Maltzahn global touring initiative of the Curtis Institute of Music".

On Sunday, March 3 at 2:00PM, The Brass Project will appear for a second time this season at the Morris Museum in a Pops concert that includes jazz, marches, film music, and original works composed specifically for them.

Tickets for both performances can be purchased for by calling the Box Office at 973.971.3706 or by visiting morrismuseum.org/special-performances/

To become a Member, visit morrismuseum.org/museum-membership, email membership@morrismuseum.org, or call 973.971.3721.

The Morris Museum in partnership with the National Music Museum (Vermillion, South Dakota) presents the exhibit Trumpets, Weird and Wonderful: Treasures from the National Music Museum - 44 fascinating instruments from five continents, currently on view at the Morris Museum through March 17, 2019.

Dating from the late 17th to the late 20th centuries, the instruments are on loan from the National Music Museum's Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection of Brass Instruments, and most of them have never been on public exhibit.

Trumpets, Weird, and Wonderful celebrates the rich audible and visual variety of musical instruments in which sound is generated by buzzing the lips, sometimes called brasswinds. Broadly defined, trumpets come in many different forms and sizes and can be made of many different materials: animal horn, bone, conch, wood, and metals. Horns and trumpets have been in use as signaling instruments since prehistoric times. They play a role in ceremony and religion in many cultures. For centuries they have had a leading function in the military and the hunt. They are not only musical instruments but also objects of artistic expression, often with hidden meaning.

Ticket holders to The Brass Project Christmas, are invited to a reception beginning at 6:00PM that evening and to enjoy this unique exhibition before the concert.

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