Stiletto Brass Quintet at UO
$10 ($5 ages 17 & under with adult/ages 65 & over/student/non-SOMD employee; UO student free)
- Amy Gilreath, trumpet
- Susan Rider, trumpet
- Stacie Mickens, French horn
- Natalie Mannix, trombone
- Velvet Brown, tuba
About Stiletto Brass Quintet
Stiletto Brass Quintet, formed in 2010, has gained exposure as a leading ensemble with performances that the audience greeted with rousing ovations with Doc Severinsen and the Heartland Festival Orchestra, at the International Women's Brass Conference, the International Trumpet Guild Conference, The National Trumpet Competition, the Great American Brass Band Festival and concerts in New York, New Hampshire, Illinois, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and Oregon. Stiletto features five highly accomplished women from the U.S. with careers spanning the fields of orchestral, wind band, and brass chamber music.
https://www.stilettobrass.com/About Susan Rider, trumpet
https://www.marineband.marines.mil/About/Members/Article/2605924/master-gunnery-sgt-susan-rider/
About Stacie Mickens, French horn
About Natalie Mannix, trombone
About Velvet Brown, tuba
Velvet Brown is the 2022–23 Penn State Laureate and the David P. Stone Endowed Professor for the School of Music at Penn State and the Associate Director of the School of Music for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Brown is also Artist Faculty at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Velvet Brown enjoys a career as professor, international soloist, composer/arranger, chamber ensemble performer, recording artist, conductor, and orchestral player. She has performed and taught in Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Finland, France, England, Hungary, Slovenia, Russia, Japan, Cuba, Canada, and the United States. Ms. Brown is currently the principal tubist of the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra. Brown was honored to be principal tuba with the Hope and Harmony Ensemble which recorded a video of fanfares for the 2021 Presidential Inauguration conducted by Marin Alsop. She has served as principal tuba with the River City Brass band, guest principal with the Lahti Philharmonic in Finland, the Detroit Symphony, San Francisco Women's Philharmonic Orchestra, and as substitute or additional tubist with the Saint Louis Symphony and Fort Wayne Philharmonic.
https://velvetuba.com/Beall Concert Hall, University of Oregon School of Music
961 E 18th AveEugene, OR 97403
United States