About

Emerging as one of New England's most ambitious musical ensembles, the Nautilus Brass Quintet has quickly established a place for itself in the world of brass chamber music. NBQ was founded in Boston, MA in 2010 with the distinct mission to proliferate original brass quintet repertoire to audiences of all ages through exciting and informative performances. Nautilus has been prizewinners at the Plowman competition and finalists in the J. C. Arriaga and Koetsier competitions. NBQ has served as the chamber ensemble-in-residence at San Jose State University’s annual summer music program for young musicians, Summer in the City. Other performance highlights include performing at the 2013 Northeast Horn Workshop, a performance of Eric Ewazen’s “Shadowcatcher” with the University of Connecticut Wind Ensemble, collaborations with Vox Novus in New York City, as well as an upcoming residency at the Women Composers Festival of Hartford.
In addition to holding themselves to the highest artistic standards, the members of Nautilus Brass are recognized for their abilities as engaging educators to musicians of all levels. All members of NBQ maintain private teaching studios, and have routinely team-taught chamber music as an ensemble since the formative years of the quintet. Since 2012, Nautilus has received a generous grant from the Ossen Fund for the Arts, allowing them to perform yearly educational concerts and “show and tell” classroom visits in the Windham, CT school district.
As an ensemble, NBQ is a passionate advocate of new music for the brass quintet genre, and we maintain an “open call” for scores from composers around the world. The quintet actively seeks opportunities to premiere new works.

Music

We really enjoy performing new compositions written for brass quintet. That being said, we have an extensive collection of great transcriptions of music by Bach, Brahms, Mussorgsky, as well as jazz arrangements. A little bit of everything!

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