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Australian Baroque Brass is one of Australia's finest early music ensembles.
Founded in 2003, the ensemble is dedicated to the pursuit of musical excellence on authentic or period instruments. Based in Sydney under the artistic directorship of trumpeter and scholar John Foster, Australian Baroque Brass gives numerous performances each year to audiences throughout Australia and Internationally.
Australian Baroque Brass has pioneered the use of period brass instruments in Australia and has been responsible for giving Australian premiere performances (on period instruments) of works by such composers as Biber, Altenburg, Vejvanovsky, Caldara, Schutz, Praetorious and many others.
The ensemble boasts the finest period instrumentalists Australia has to offer, with many of its members also holding key positions in Australian and international Orchestras. This dynamic ensemble performs a vast repertoire of European music from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth centuries, with the ensemble varying in size from solo recitals with continuo through to full orchestral performances.
Typically, the ensemble performs with Natural Trumpets, Cornetts, Sackbuts, Natural Horns, Timpani, Vocalists and Organ/Continuo.
Australian Baroque Brass also regularly features guest performances by well known international and Australian artists as well as collaborations with other professional ensembles and choirs such as Crispian Steele-Perkins, Michael Laird, Sara Macliver, the Choir of St James', Ensemble of St James', Sydney Consort
among others.
Australian Baroque Brass has made several recordings which include the critically acclaimed CD "Music of a Golden Age Vol.1" (2006 Tubicium Records), as well as numerous live recordings for national broadcast on ABC Classic FM. More recently Australian Baroque Brass has performed at such festivals as the Canberra International Chamber Music Festival, in Hobart as guests of the Island Brass Academy, the Australian Trumpet Guild National Conference, the
2006 and 2008 New England Bach Festival, and tours to South Australia performing at St Peters Catherdral and the Elder Conservatorium, along with return visits to perform in Newcastle and also in Tasmania as well as performing numerous other concerts throughout Sydney, NSW and Australia.
In 2008 Australian Baroque Brass undertook an extensive concert tour of the USA performing in numerous venues in Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Australian Baroque Brass has recently had the pleasure of accepting an invitation to become the ensemble in residence at St James' Anglican Church, King St Sydney, where since 2006 ABB perform their annual concert series.
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