BTG 15Sep16 - 'E' Brass Quintet - Thomas Eves (trumpet), Slade Hocking (trumpet), Bernard Shapiro (French horn), Karl Margevka (trombone) and Nigel Seaton (tuba). Photo/supplied
If you haven't heard a brass quintet before, a concert featuring top performers from the South Island is coming to the city.
"We want to go and share our music throughout the country, to areas that may not have heard a brass quintet live before. Brass instruments are so versatile,
capable of playing a variety of different music and we have created fun, engaging and contrasting programmes we know audiences will love," says lead trumpeter Thomas Eves.
"From classical to jazz, string arrangements to TV and movie classics, there will be something in our programmes for everyone - music to suit a huge variety of different audiences. It is an exciting project to have started this quintet, and the experience and professionalism that each member brings to this group makes for a very high quality quintet."
Eves has a master of performance with distinction from the Royal College of Music, London. During his time in the United Kingdom, he won a trial for principal trumpet of The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and performed as a soloist with a chamber group from The Philharmonia Orchestra London in a concert trip to Klosters, Switzerland.
Other members are: Slade Hocking, who began his musical career at age 8, playing the cornet in the Waimataitai School Brass Band. After going through his postgraduate studies in Tasmania, Slade spent two years at the Hoschule für Musik - Luzern, completing his masters degree in orchestral trumpet and piccolo. Alongside his studies, he performed extensively with various European orchestras. He is teaching at the Christchurch School of Music and at his private trumpet studio.
