Brass Quintet

The Heavens Above for Two Brass Quintets (2023)

Instrumentation: 2 trpt, hn, tbn, tuba and 2 trpt, hn, tbn, tuba (6:15)

Commissioned and premiered in 1998 by The Tuolumne Brass, a San Francisco brass quintet active in the 1990s.

This new version for two brass quintets (2023) plays off the antiphonal nature of the Renaissance brass music of Giovanni Gabrieli that he composed for the architecture of the Cathedral of San Marco in Venice.