About

American quintet Calliope Brass collaborates with the world’s most prominent creatives to build evocative, story-driven concert experiences for a variety of audiences. Inspired by the eponymous storytelling muse in Greek mythology, Calliope Brass (pronounced “Kuh-LIE-uh-pea”) is most known for its innovative approach, successfully expanding upon the more traditional norm of recital-style performances. As a registered nonprofit, Calliope has obtained several grants for performance and educational initiatives since its inception in 2015.

The quintet’s flagship educational initiative, “What’s Your Story?” debuted during the 2018-2019 season to great acclaim and continues to tour in schools across the country, including auditoriums and classrooms in over a dozen schools across New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

Music

For our Groupmuse concerts, we perform arrangements from traditional repertoire for brass trio and quintet.

Unless you have an exceptionally large space for performances, we perform as a brass trio (trumpet, horn, and trombone).

Brass Trio:
Händel - Twelve Cassations
Mozart - Allegro from "Divertimento for Violin, Viola and Cello, K. 563"
Mozart - Divertimenti I & III from "Five Divertimenti for Three Basset Horns, K 439b"
Händel - Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 8 - Allemande
Pachelbel - A Pachelbel Suite
Beethoven - March
Mendelssohn - Lift Thine Eyes from "Elijah"
Bach - Terzetto-Denn das Gesetz from "Jesu, Meine Freude"
Händel - Menuet from "Water Music"
Händel - Bourree from "Royal Fireworks Music"
Schubert - Eine kleine Trauermusik
Haydn - Andante from "String Quartet, op. 74, no. 2"

Past groupmuses (2)