ONYX BRASS
Niall Keatley & Alan Thomas - trumpets, Andrew Sutton - horn,
Amos Miller - trombone, David Gordon-Shute - tuba
A resounding finish to the season is expected when acclaimed quintet Onyx Brass plays for our 83rd Anniversary concert. It celebrated its 30th anniversary last year and continues to be the leading light in establishing the brass quintet as a medium for serious chamber music, combining ‘staggering virtuosity’ (Sarah Walker, BBC Radio 3) with the entertaining and articulate style that has become the group’s trademark. Onyx has toured extensively: there are very few corners of the UK that remain unvisited! The group has also performed regularly at festivals and concert halls in the USA, Ireland, France, Sweden, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, Nigeria, Bermuda and Borneo to unanimous critical acclaim. The group’s extensive discography has received huge critical acclaim, Gramophone hail ‘some of the most thrilling chamber brass-playing of its kind’ and Record Review (R3) describing the group as a ‘wonderful, virtuosic brass quintet’. The programme ranges from Monteverdi’s Vespers, Rameau and Bach to Shostakovich, Arnold and Bernstein’s West Side Story Suite.
