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Percussion Instructors.
The Quintet's first European Concert Tour featured
several works written especially for them and
included their New York City debut in Carnegie's
Weill Recital Hall and several concerts in Italy
and Germany. They traveled again to Germany on
a second European Concert Tour by invitation of
the Ministry of Culture in Rheinland-Pfalz.
They
were invited to perform at the 1998 International
Trumpet Guild Conference in Lexington, Kentucky.
There they presented Robert Suderburg's Concert
Passages, a work commissioned by the FSU School
of Music and recently premiered by the FSBQ.
During
November, 1998 the quintet traveled on a 10 concert
Conservatory Tour '98 which culminated with a
Washington, D.C. performance in the Kennedy Center's
Terrace Theater.
During
October, 2000 the group traveled to concerts at
several universities in the Midwest, culminating
with their second appearance in the Weill Recital
Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City in their
25th Anniversary Tour.
In
addition to maintaining a busy performance schedule
as a quintet, the individual members sustain a
full-time teaching schedule in the Florida State
University School of Music and are involved in
numerous other musical activities, including principal
positions in the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra.
Their
first compact disk recording, Strophes of
the Night and Dawn was released internationally
in March, 1997 by Crystal Recordings. |
