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Concert Band Livestream Performance with World-renowned Artist

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Washington, D.C. --  On March 20 at 1:30 p.m., the Concert Band's performance with trumpet virtuoso Bob Sullivan will be livestreamed via the Band's home page. This concert is the opening event for the National Trumpet Competition at Messiah College in Mechanicsville, Pa. The competition is an annual event which includes clinics, master classes, concerts, and features trumpet players ranging from elementary school to graduate students.

Sullivan, principal trumpet of the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops Orchestras, will perform all three movements of Oskar Bohme's Concerto in F minor with the Concert Band. He is the former assistant principal trumpet of the Cleveland Orchestra (2003-2008), associate principal trumpet of the New York Philharmonic (1993-2004), associate principal trumpet of the Charleston (S.C.) Symphony Orchestra, member of The U.S. Air Force Band and Orchestra and solo trumpet of the Chicago Chamber Brass. He has been a faculty member for the Cleveland Institute of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Mannes College of Music, Charleston Southern University and College of Charleston. He currently serves as the professor of trumpet at Northwestern University. Sullivan has presented master classes and recitals throughout the U.S., South America, Europe and Asia, and has been a faculty member at the Hamamatsu International Music Academy in Japan. A native of Norwood, Mass., he studied with Armando Ghitalla at the University of Michigan and won the Armando Ghitalla fellowship to attend the Tanglewood Music Center in 1984.

Sullivan has had a varied performance career. He gave several performances with the Canadian Brass and German Brass while a member of the Principal Brass Quintet of the New York Philharmonic. He has also recorded with and conducted the Empire Brass, and toured and recorded with Summit Brass. While living in New York, Mr. Sullivan recorded soundtracks for several major motion pictures, and performed at the Grammy Awards Show and several live television specials. He has appeared as soloist with several orchestras and wind ensembles, including the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Paavo Jarvi, the Cincinnati Pops, with the Cleveland Orchestra, and with the Blossom Festival Band. Recent repertoire includes concertos by Haydn, Hummel, Arutunian, Bohme, Telemman and Mozart, cornet solos by Bellstedt and Clarke, and pops arrangements by Steven Reineke and Tommy Newsom. Sullivan has also recorded two solo albums with pianist James Rensink: "Treasures for Trumpet" and "Kaleidoscope."

In addition to Bohme's Concerto in F minor, the Concert Band will perform a "brass-focused" program including Richard Strauss' "Einleitung, oder Sonnenaufgang" from "Also Sprach Zarathustra," selections from "Der Rosenkavlier," a new commission, recently premiered by the Concert Band, "Affirmation" by Wayne Oquin, Ira Hearshen's Symphony on Themes of Sousa "II. After "The Thunderer," and works by Percy Grainger and Arturo Marquez. Making full-use of the Parmer Hall's magnificent pipe organ, the concert will conclude with the final, rousing movement from Camille Saint-Saens 3rd Symphony, "The Organ Symphony."

Be sure to check our home page for the the link to the live performance on March 20 at 1:30 p.m., and the rest of our website for information on all of our upcoming concerts, events and news!