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The Basic Facts:
- five brass players and one percussionist based in New York City
- performances in 49 states
- performances in Germany, Holland, Belgium, Austria
- performances in Japan and Taiwan
- performances in Cuba, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic
- eight critically acclaimed compact discs on the Channel Classics label
- changed the face of brass chamber music through innovative repertoire and high-octane performances
Whose music do we play (in no particular order)?
- Frank Zappa, J.S. Bach, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Tania Leon, King Crimson, Captain Beefheart, and Jimi Hendrix
- Mark Applebaum, Milton Babbitt, Alvin Etler, Elliott Carter, Tom Pierson
- members of the MAE (who also do their own arranging)
- Renaissance and Baroque music, Afro-Cuban dance styles, South American folk music
Career highlights:
- First Prize Winner, 1990 Concert Artists Guild New York Competition
- multiple winner of the ASCAP/Chamber Music America Adventurous Programming Award
- performance at New York's Alice Tully Hall for the 25th Anniversary of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
- club appearances including New York alternative spaces CBGB's, The Knitting Factory, the Cooler, and the Kitchen; the Black Cat in Washington, DC; the House of Blues in Los Angeles
- television broadcasts on German, Dutch, and Austrian state television
- television broadcast on PBS's Live from Lincoln Center
- radio broadcasts on NPR's Weekend Edition (twice), St. Paul Sunday Morning, WDR Jazz Radio (Germany), Dutch National Radio, ORF (Austria), Voice of America, and Radio Free Europe
Quotes:
- "more exciting all the time" -Billboard Magazine
- "Brass Wizards" -CD Review
- "Made up of only virtuosos" -Trouw of Amsterdam
- "Extraordinary command" -The Washington Post
- "Near symphonic richness" -Los Angeles Times
- "... go and see 'em" -Frank Zappa
- "Superb virtuosos" -Fanfare
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Meridian Arts Ensemble
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