Lyric Brass Quintet

Welcome to the Lyric Brass Quintet Official Myspace Page! We will be updating this page frequently with concert inormation, recordings, blogs, photos and more very soon!Formed in 1998, The Lyric Brass Quintet (Kevin Dines & Bob Couto, Trumpets; Larry Williams, Horn; Brandon Rivera, Trombone; and Andrew Spang, Tuba) quickly distinguished itself as one of the premier brass chamber groups in the region. As winners of the 2000 Baltimore Chamber Music Competition they performed at ARTSCAPE (Baltimore's Festival of the Arts), and their debut CD, Daydreams, Desires and Diversions was released the same year to critical acclaim. They have been featured artists on the Baltimore Composer's Forum, the Peggy and Yale Gordon Trust Concert Series, and at the Foxboro Orpheum in Boston. They have appeared as soloists in Eric Ewazen's concerto grosso, Shadowcatcher, with the Peabody Wind Ensemble and were featured artists on Virginia's Catch a Rising Star Concert Series. LBQ is sponsored, in part, by Stu's Music Shop in Westminster, Maryland and have served as artists in residence at the Goucher Summer Arts Institute. LBQ's second recording, Christmas Around the World, was released in December 2002.The members of The Lyric Brass are strongly committed to education. They have given clinics and masterclasses at festivals and schools throughout the U.S.The LBQ is proud to announce that we will serve as Resident Faculty Ensemble of The Sandia Music Festival in July of 2009! We are looking forward the debut of this exciting festival and hope that you will join us in New Mexico!