We’re profiling the members of the da Capo Brass ensemble! Yesterday we introduced you to Paul Pietrowski, and today we introduce tuba player Brent Harvey!
Brent Harvey, tuba
Raised in Apple Valley, Minnesota, Brent Harvey holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Minnesota and a Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Harvey has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Catania International Festival Orchestra in Italy, the Pine Mountain Music Festival Symphony Orchestra (MI), the Charleston Symphony and Long Bay Symphony Orchestras (SC), the Greensboro Symphony and Winston-Salem Symphony Orchestras (NC) and has appeared on National Public Radio and Minnesota Public Radio broadcasts with the Minnesota Orchestra. He is a founding member of da Capo Brass, and also plays with Big Dixie Dixieland Band and the international award winning tuba quartet, Tubas in the Sun. In addition to his appointment at Winston-Salem State University as Assistant Professor of Low Brass and Music Education, Dr. Harvey also serves on the faculty at Pfeiffer University as Adjunct Professor of Tuba-Euphonium and Assistant Conductor of the Pfeiffer University Wind Ensemble. Harvey is a Warrant Officer in the Army National Guard and serves as the Commander and Conductor of the 440th Army Band.
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da Capo Brass
DE 3417
“From the Beginning” to a Glorious End
In keeping with Delos’ founding principle of showcasing exceptional American artists, here is an auspicious debut recording from da Capo: a superb North Carolina-based brass quintet. Musicians will immediately pick up on the album’s title, “From the Beginning” (English for the musical term “da Capo”).
And who wouldn’t thrill to the majestic sound of a crack brass ensemble? This instrumental family’s unique sonorities – ranging from the trumpet’s clarion brilliance to the French horn’s mellow tones –can’t be beat for music of noble pomp or stirring glory – not to mention material of a more humorous nature. And, given the brasses’ distinctively varied tonal qualities, what better way to pick apart more complex music like a Bach fugue?
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