CELEBRATE OUR 21st SEASON!

with our

Season Finale concert:

Sunday, May 16, 3pm
Lake Oswego High School Performance Hall
2501 Country Club Rd, Lake Oswego   
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Our last concert

was

Brass from Beantown

Which featured Pacific Crest Wind Symphony and Portland State University Wind Symphony in a joint concert celebrating the musicianship of Charles Schlueter and Ron Barron
on Sunday March 7, 2010.

The Playlist:

An Outdoor Overture  /  Aaron Copland / PCWS
Visions of Light (a concerto for tenor trombone and wind ens.) / Eric Ewazen / Ron Barron, soloist /  PCWS
Colas Bruegnon Overture / Dimitri Kabalevsky, arr. Beeler / PSUWS
Sonata in D / Giuseppe Torelli / Charlie Schlueter, soloist / PSUWS 
Cousins / Herbert L. Clarke, arr. Cramer / Barron and Schleuter, soloists / PSUWS
Candide: Suite / Leonard Bernstein, arr. Grundman / PCWS and PSUWS combined

Charles Schlueter had been principal trumpet of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) for 25 years when he retired in 2006. He also held positions with the Kansas City Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, and the Minnesota Orchestra. He studied with William Vacchiano at the Juilliard School and is a teacher at the New England Conservatory of Music. A partial list of his students include Andrew Balio, (principal of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra), Roderick Macdonald (principal trumpet of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra), Jeffrey Work and David Bamonte (principal and assistant principal of the Oregon Symphony Orchestra). In 2001 he founded The Charles Schlueter Foundation, a non-profit organization "to encourage communication among brass players and to advance the level of performance, teaching and literature associated with brass instruments". He was Boston Musicians Association musician of the year in 2006.

Ronald Barron has been principal trombonist of the BSO since 1975. He previously held positions with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and served as principal trombonist of the Boston Pops for thirteen seasons. Ron is a graduate of the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati, studying with Ernest Glover. During his college years, he toured with the American Wind Symphony. In 1974, he shared the highest prize awarded at the Munich International Competition, performing Frank Martin's Ballade for trombone and orchestra with the competition sponsor, the Bavarian State Radio Orchestra. He is a frequent soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra and with many New England area orchestras and bands as well as performing recitals in Europe and Japan. Ron has recorded and performed with the Canadian Brass, Empire Brass, and Summit Brass, and has five successful solo recordings. He has been a faculty member for the International Trombone Workshop and the Keystone Brass Institute, and teaches at Boston University, the New England Conservatory of Music, and the Tanglewood Music Center.

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May 16, 2010

COMMENTS ABOUT MARCH 7th CONCERT:

         

"Charles Schlueter and Ron Barron have spent an entire career defining the American Brass Sound. This concert is a must for those who wish to experience musicianship at its best."

                          -- Dr. Edward Higgins, conductor, Pacific Crest Wind Symphony; and Director of Bands at Portland State University

"Charles Schlueter, long time Principal Trumpet in Boston and Minneapolis, is also a long time friend to Portland audiences, having performed here in numerous recitals and at the Monette shop. One of the most musically creative trumpeters of all times, Charlie always inspires audiences with his spontaneity."                  

     --Fred Sautter, former Principal Trumpet with Oregon Symphony, teacher, and creator of technical video on trumpet, Sound the Trumpet

"Every brass player, music lover and just about anyone else who even remotely likes music owes it to themself to experience legendary performers Charles Schlueter and Ron Barron in concert.  This is state-of-the-art music from world-class performers who have the ability to inspire us for a lifetime with one performance!"