A performance by the Faculty Brass Quintet will open the Music Department’s 2013-14 Faculty & Friends Concert Series; the event is set for 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 10, in the Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts Belk Theater.
Led by assistant professor of trumpet Michael Hackett, the quintet includes Donald Tison, trumpet; Christopher Griffin, horn; former music department chair Royce Lumpkin, trombone; and Fred Boyd, tuba.
The Sept. 10 concert will feature two arrangements from the late Renaissance – “Centone No. V” by Samuel Scheidt and “The Earl of Oxford’s March” by William Byrd. Other selections on the program include Gershwin’s “Fascinatin’ Rhythm” and “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square,” made popular by the Manhattan Transfer. Brass quintets by two 20th-century contemporaries, the British composer Malcolm Arnold and the Dutch composer Jan Koetsier, will be on the program, too.
Tickets are $9 for general admission, $7 for seniors and UNC Charlotte faculty and staff and $6 for students, and can be purchased online.
The Faculty & Friends Concert Series will continue Oct. 1 with the Oasis Saxophone Quartet.