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True North Brass
burst
on to the scene in 1997, and has since
solidified its reputation as one of the world’s
finest brass ensembles. With a roster of some of
Canada’s finest brass instrumentalists, True
North's membership includes two outstanding
composer / arrangers who create the ensemble's
fresh and unique programming. Proudly Canadian
in focus and expression with a truly
international outlook, True North Brass has been
welcomed not only in Canada but in China and
throughout North America. True North Brass has
released four critically acclaimed recordings,
been featured on CBC Television’s Opening Night
program, is heard frequently on public and
private radio and collaborated on other
recording projects with such artists as the
Elmer Iseler Singers, Rick Fox, Lori Cullen,
Eleanor Daley and St. Michael’s Choir School.
True North Brass was featured at the
International Brass Symposium in Atlanta,
Georgia in March 2000. They accompanied Prime
Minister Chretien's 1998 trade mission to China,
performing recitals in Beijing and Wuhan and
directing masterclasses at the Beijing
Conservatory. The quintet has also performed
masterclasses and recitals at the Boston and New
England Conservatories and toured British
Columbia, Ontario, Tennessee, New York,
Connecticut, Virginia, Texas, New Hampshire,
Idaho, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Alabama, and
Florida. True North Brass has appeared at the
Ottawa Chamber Music Festival on four occasions.
Recent performances of the quintet include
concerts in Pittsburg Pennsylvania, Boise Idaho,
the Festival of the Sound, the Westben Summer
Music Festival, The Barrie Colours of Music
Festival, The International Trumpet Guild’s 2008
conference, West Liberty West Virginia, Walter
Hall at the University of Toronto, Roy Thomson
Hall with the Toronto Children’s Chorus, The
Toronto Centre for the Arts with the Amadeus
Choir, and the International Women’s Brass
Conference, Toronto 2010. True North Brass was
Ensemble in Residence at the University Of
Western Ontario’s Don Wright Faculty of Music
for the 2008/2009 academic year.  Performances
in 2011/2012 include Music by the Sea in
Bamfield BC, The Ottawa Chamber Music Festival,
Kelowna Community Concerts, Mass Brass at
Koerner Hall, St. Simons Island Georgia, Messiah
College in Grantham Pennsylvania and Muskoka
Concert Association. True North Brass also
appears with the Toronto Children’s Chorus at
their annual Roy Thomson Hall Christmas Concert.
For the 11/12
academic year, True North is an Ensemble in
Residence at Wilfrid Laurier Faculty of Music
The ensemble’s
most recent recording project is a transcription
of Pictures at an Exhibition for brass
quintet and organ by J. Scott Irvine. The
members of True North Brass are Yamaha Artists
associated with Yamaha Music Canada.
Canadian Artists
Representation: Richard Paul Concert Artists:
www.greatconcerts.com
US Artist
Representation: Philip Truckenbrod Concert
Artists:
www.concertartists.com
For more
information please visit:
www.truenorthbrass.com
Administration
True North’s
Managing Director, RAYMOND TIZZARD,
is a founding member of True North Brass and for
the past 30 years has been active in Canada’s
classical music scene as a trumpet player and
arts administrator. In addition to his duties
with True North Brass, Ray is the Executive
Director of The Hannaford Street Silver Band,
Canada’s professional brass band,
www.hssb.ca and is the Assistant Orchestra
Personnel Manager for the National Ballet of
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True North
Brass
Presents
“Beginning To See The Light”
St. Simons Presbyterian Church
St. Simons Island GA
Tuesday January 24th, 2012,
7:30 PM
Ceremonial Fanfare
J. Scott Irvine
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Duke Ellington, arr.Kay
La Rose Nuptiale
Calixa Lavalle, arr: Cable
Czardas
Vittorio Monti, arr. Kay
Alastair Kay, Trombone Soloist
Aria from the Goldberg Variations
Bach
arr. J.S. Irvine
Trois Hommages
James McGrath
1. Chorale
2. Danse Macabre
3. Gigue
Canadian Folk Song Suite
Morley Calvert , arr. Marlatt
1. Marianne s'en va-t-au
Moulin
2. She's Like the Swallow
3. J'entends le Moulin
Three Traditional Folk
Songs
Trad; arr; Irvine and Kay
1.
Purple Bamboo Melody
2.
Red River Valley
3.
Londonderry Air
I’m Beginning to see the Light
Duke Ellington, arr: Kay
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True North
Brass is:
Trumpeter
BARTON
WOOMERT
has been the Associate Principal Trumpet with
the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and trumpet
instructor at the University of Toronto Faculty
of Music since 1982.A native of Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, he received his music degree from
the Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns
Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Upon
graduation, he traveled to South America where
he played Principal Trumpet in the Orquesta
Sinfonica Venezuela (National Orchestra of
Venezuela) and in the Metropolitan Opera of
Caracas. He also served as soloist for four
years with the United States Marine Band, “The
President’s Own,” in Washington, D.C., and
performed regularly at White House functions.
Before moving to Toronto, he held the position
of Principal Trumpet with the Hamilton
Philharmonic Orchestra.
He also teaches in the summer at various music
camps in Pennsylvania and a the Interprovincial
Music Camp on Lake Manitouwabing in Ontario.
Bart is the Brass Artist in Residence at Wilfrid
Laurier University.
Trumpeter
RICHARD SANDALS was born and raised in
Guelph Ontario and holds degrees in Trumpet
Performance from the University of Western
Ontario and Indiana University. Since 2001, he
has been principal trumpet of the National
Ballet Orchestra. He is also co-principal cornet
of the Hannaford Street Silver Band, and has
been a frequent soloist with the band. Richard
has performed extensively in and around Toronto
with ensembles including the Canadian Opera
Company Orchestra and the Kitchener-Waterloo
Symphony Orchestra.
CHRISTINE PASSMORE
(horn)
performs regularly with the National Ballet of
Canada Orchestra, the Canadian Opera Company,
the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra and the
Hannaford Street Silver Band. She was featured
in the 2009 production of Sondheim's Sunday in
the Park with George (Shaw Festival,
Niagara-on-the-Lake) and is currently playing My
Fair Lady at The Shaw. Christine also performed
in the Toronto productions of The Lord of the
Rings, The Phantom of the Opera, and The Sound
of Music. On natural horn she has been heard
with groups including L’Orchestra Classica di
Santa Croce, Batignano, Tuscany, Italy, the
Philadelphia Classical Orchestra, the Chicago
Opera Theater, the Smithsonian Chamber Players
(Baltimore, MD), and the Aradia Ensemble
(Toronto, ON). Christine holds degrees from the
University of Western Ontario and Indiana
University.
ALASTAIR KAY,
www.alkay.ca
Head of Brass at
Humber College is busy as a clinician, arranger,
composer, and a virtuosic jazz and classical
Trombone soloist. He has performed with leading
artists and entertainers such as Ella
Fitzgerald, Rob McConnell, Diana Krall, Tony
Bennet, and Andrea Bocelli. Al performs
regularly around Toronto with the bands of John
MacLeod, Roberto Occhipinti, and Hilario Duran,
and has played for most of the musicals in
Toronto for the past 30 years. His association
with Yamaha has led him to Japan helping design
a trombone, and performing with the Xeno
Trombone Quartet.
SASHA JOHNSON, began his musical training at age 16, studying brass chamber
music and tuba with Sam Pilafian at the Empire
Brass Seminar of the Boston University
Tanglewood Institute. In 1997 Sasha became the
first Canadian tuba player to be accepted into
the Von Karajan Academy of the Berlin
Philharmonic. This program trains a small number
of young professionals in the sound, style,
traditions and standard of the Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra. Having begun his
professional career in Berlin, Sasha went on to
perform with many other European orchestras
including the Berlin Symphony, the Berlin State
Opera, the Radio Orchestra Berlin, the Orchestre
Symphonique de Radio France, The Orchestre de
Paris, the Ensemble Modern and the Orchestre
Nationale de Bordeaux. He currently lives in
Montreal and performs there regularly with the
Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal. He is the
instructor of tuba at the Glenn Gould School and
an instructor of low brass and chamber music at
McGill University. In January 2009, Sasha was
appointed principal tuba of the National Ballet
of Canada OrchestrA.
True North
Brass
42 Jessie
Crescent
Sharon, ON
L0G 1V0
905 478 1882
www.truenorthbrass.com
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