Founded in 2004, the Gaudete Brass Quintet is devoted to presenting serious brass chamber music at the highest level of excellence and to encouraging worldwide appreciation of the art of brass chamber music through live performances, recordings, education, and the creation of new works.
The quintet is committed to expanding the brass quintet repertoire, commissioning works by James Woodward, John Cheetham and Jan Bach, as well as working with emerging young artists through programs such as the advanced composition course at Columbia College-Chicago. The quintet is also dedicated to historically informed performances of Renaissance music, creating and performing their own editions of these works.
The Gaudete Brass has been featured on many prominent concert series, including the Fourth Presbyterian Noon Concert Series in Chicago, Musical Mondays in Milwaukee, and Great Lakes Area Performing Arts Concert Series in Minnesota. The quintet has served as Artist-in-Residence at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. They have performed on live radio broadcasts on the “Live in Studio C” program on Nashville Public Radio, the 21st Century Classical program on WSME in Milwaukee, and Kenosha Public Radio. They have also collaborated with many accomplished organists on brass and organ programs and has had the privilege of performing the National Anthem at MLB, NBA and WNBA games.
The quintet has presented concerts and educational programs on tour to a variety of audiences, including performances at Vanderbilt University, the University of Chicago, the University of Missouri, Western Illinois University, the University of Georgia, the University of Alabama, Furman University, Western Carolina University, Eastern Illinois University, and the University of Notre Dame.
In 2006, the Gaudete Brass released its first CD (featuring Andre Previn's Four Outings for Brass), which was honored with the CDBaby Editors’ Choice distinction and nominated for the 2009 Just Plain Folks Best Classical Chamber Album.