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Pearl & Brass: Encore turns 30 featuring Charles Lazarus

  • St. Andrew's Lutheran Church 900 Stillwater Road Mahtomedi, MN, 55115 United States (map)

Encore Wind Ensemble
Peter Haberman, conductor

Curtain Call - Jack Stamp
Elegy for Albinoni - Shelley Hanson
Pebble Beach Sojourn - Ron Nelson
Beacons Bright - Dean Sorenson
American Nomad - Steve Heitzig/Stamp
- featuring Charles Lazarus

First Suite in Eb - Gustav Holst

St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church

Charles Lazarus

Trumpeter Charles Lazarus is a member of the Minnesota Orchestra and a multi-faceted musician who has charted a unique course as performer, composer, producer and band leader.

His career has included tenures in Dallas Brass, Meridian Arts Ensemble, and Canadian Brass. He has created and produced several crossover orchestral programs featuring his various ensembles with which he has released six recordings. The Minnesota Orchestra’s live video recording of Steve Heitzeg’s “American Nomad” concerto and a children's animated short film collaboraton with author Michael Hall “Perfect Square” are also among his many collaboratons.

Lazarus has appeared as a soloist with numerous orchestras around the US and Canada, performed with the Empire Brass, New York Philharmonic Principal Brass, London Brass, Barry White, and opened for Tony Bennet. In demand as a clinician and teacher, he has performed and taught master classes in every US state, Canada, Brazil, Cuba, South Africa and throughout Asia and Europe.

Charles Lazarus’s appearance, and this world-premiere performance of Jack Stamp’s band arrangement of Steve Heitzeg’s American Nomad concerto, are made possible through the generous sponsorship of CircleRock Concerts for Community.

Earlier Event: May 17
A Life Well-Lived
Later Event: November 8
Transformations