Matthew Russo, trombonist & educator

Instructor of Trombone, University of Connecticut

Month: August 2011

  • final concert at norfolk – böhme sextet

    This Saturday, August 13 at 10:30 a.m. marks the final concert for the Young Artist Performance Series at Norfolk this summer. The Excalibur Brass will be performing the first, second and final movement from Oskar Böhme’s Sextet which calls for three trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba. We will be taking the stage with Yale faculty…

  • l’histoire du soldat

    On August 5, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival presents Stravinsky’s L’histoire du soldat, conducted by Ransom Wilson, choreographed by Katie Stevinson-Nollet and the Full Force Dance theatre, with narration by John McDonough. The Soldier’s Tale was written in 1918 and features a septet of violin, double bass, clarinet, bassoon, cornet, trombone and percussion. This small…

  • dance suite from “pariser tanzbuch”

    Thursday Night’s Young Artist Performer Series at the Norfolk Festival features the Excalibur Brass Quintet performing an arrangement of dances from Pierre Attaingnant’s collection:”Pariser Tanzbuch.” The collection was published in 1530, and features dozens of early renaissance-style dances. This arrangement by Allan Dean, Professor of Trumpet at Yale, features is a collection of several dances in…