Daughters of the Muse

An exciting program music by Joan Tower and Stacy Garrop as well as rarely heard music from the Italian convents in the 16th and 17th centuries.


Chicago Moves

A concert of adventurous new music for brass quintet music influenced by dance and movement featuring major works by David Sampson and Zhou Long.


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The John Corigliano Effect - Gaudete’s program of diverse new works by Corigliano’s students celebrating his 75th birthday and his contributions to American music.


The Mystic Trumpeters: Poetry in Music

A concert exploring the connections between poetry and music featuring Anthony Plog’s setting of Walt Whitman’s Civil War poetry, Songs of War and Loss, one of the most moving works ever written for the brass quintet. For baritone vocal soloist with brass quintet.


Conversations in Time: Music for Brass Quintet and Organ

Music from our recording on the Pro Organa label. This concert features both the traditional repertoire with music from Dupré and Krol as well as new works that push the instruments to their limits.


Vespers and Magnificat: Music for Christmas and Advent

An innovative take on a brass Christmas concert, this program features John Harbison’s Christmas Vespers and Kile Smith’s newly commissioned Magnificat setting both for brass quintet and narrator as well as familiar carols in imaginative settings.


Mobiles: Music in Motion for Resonant Spaces

An unconventional concert of antiphonal and expansive music designed to revel in a resplendent acoustic space. - Gaudete’s program of diverse new works by Corigliano’s students celebrating his 75th birthday and his contributions to American music.