JULY 19, 2010 FOR RELEASE:
Jazz Trombone Giant Steve Turre to Appear at Gramercy Brass Band Camp Spectacular Finale Concertat Caldwell College on July 31st. .You can watch him play Saturday nights with the NBC Saturday Night Live Orchestra and now you can see him perform live at Caldwell College in July.
Internationally Acclaimed Jazz Trombonist and Recording Artist Steve Turre will be the principal guest artist at the Gramercy Brass Orchestra of New York’s concert on Saturday July 31 at 3 p.m. in the college’s Newman Center. The Brass Spectacular Finale Concert will take place at the conclusion of the 6th annual Gramercy Brass Band Camp. Over 125 brass and percussion students in grades 4 to 12 will participate in an intense week of ensemble training with principal members of the Gramercy Brass Orchestra from July 25 to July 31. The high point of the camp week happens when students perform side-by-side with the professional members of the Gramercy Brass Orchestra at the finale concert.
General admission to the Brass Spectacular Finale Concert is $20.00; students and seniors over 65 may purchase tickets for $15.00. Tickets to the master class with Steve Turre on Friday, July 30 at 10:30 a.m. are $10.00.
Gramercy Brass Band Camp is a unique, high level music experience offered through Gramercy Brass Orchestra of New York’s non-profit music education initiative called Polishing the Brass!
Gramercy Brass Orchestra of NY is a 28 member, award-winning professional concert/entertainment brass orchestra and resident ensemble at Caldwell College, currently celebrating its 28th season.
For more information or ticket reservations, please contact (212) 229-7607 or email
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To find out more about the Gramercy Brass Band Camp, Gramercy Brass Orchestra of NY, or to purchase tickets for the 7/31/10 Finale Concert online, please visit www.gramercybrass.org. For printer friendly directions to Caldwell College, please CLICK HERE
“The Gramercy group may very well be the most exciting brass group I have ever heard."
- Gettysburg Festival News
“They have an impeccable quality to them. Gramercy Brass is absolutely precise and outstanding!”
- The Evening Sun, Hanover, PA
“Everything about the program struck me as first class and the proof was in the playing!”
- Tim Page, music critic, The Washington Post
“The Ultimate in Pomp and Circumstance.” - New York Times “Gramercy Brass establishes the benchmark.”
- Brass Band Bridge magazine
“The performance was both noble and dynamic”
- Bard Music Festival, Times Herald-Record
