In addition to their frequent performances with many churches for Christmas and Easter services, the Great Lakes Brass Quintet have presented many recitals throughout southeastern Michigan. They have presented many popular concerts at a variety of venues, including at St. Clair Community College’s “Thursdays at Lunch” Concert Series and the “First Presbyterian Church of Northville’s Fine Arts Concert Series”. They have several programs available, including:

• The Brilliant Sounds of the Holiday Season with the Great Lakes Brass
• American Favorites for Brass Quintet
• From Gabrielli to Gershwin with the Great Lakes Brass

For more information on the Great Lakes Brass Quintet’s programs and availability, contact the Great Lakes Consort.

This hour-long Salon concert was first developed for presentation at Christ Church Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills, accompanied by organist and pianist Joseph Daniel.

Music on this program included selections for oboe solo, English horn solo, trumpet solo, and trio written by composers such as:

• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Henry Purcell
• Robert Mueller
• Robert Bradshaw
• Oskar Wermann
• Jean-Joseph Mouret

The Great Lakes Consort is available to perform this entertaining and informative concert. For more information, contact the Great Lakes Consort.

Grab your traveling companion and join the Great Lakes Consort for a tour across Europe at the turn of the 18th Century.

No passport is needed to enjoy this lively concert featuring trumpet, oboes, cello and harpsichord. We will take you on a trip through France, Belgium, Italy, England and Germany, bringing you a variety of music of the era and sharing fascinating stories about the careers and inspirations of the composers.

Well-known works and rarely heard gems of the early 1700s will be performed by the Great Lakes Consort Baroque Ensemble. Pictured from left to right:

• Mark Flegg, trumpet
• Lynne Marie Flegg, oboe
• Nadine Deleury, cello
• Kristin Reynolds, oboe
• Angelina Pashmakova, harpsichord

Featured pieces on this program include:

• the Rondeau by Jean-Joseph Mouret, a work made famous as the theme to “Masterpiece Theater”
• Tomaso Albinoni’s Concerto a Cinque, Opus 9 No. 9 for Two Oboes and Continuo
• the Prelude from Suite #2 in d minor for Cello by J.S. Bach
• a set of Oboe duets written by Jean Baptiste Loeillet de Gant
• Henry Purcell’s Sonata in D for Trumpet and Continuo
• music for solo Harpsichord composed by Scarlatti and Daquin
• Francesco Geminiani’s beautiful Oboe Sonata in e minor
• an exciting Concerto for Trumpet, Two Oboes and Continuo by Georg Phillipp Telemann

The Great Lakes Consort is available to perform this concert, first presented for the Fine Arts Society of Detroit chamber music series. For more information, contact the Great Lakes Consort.