2008 - 2009 GUEST ARTISTS


Previous Artists: 2003 - 2004; 2004 - 2005; 2005 - 2006

 

 

Sotto Voce Quartet
September 22, 2009

The highly acclaimed, internationally recognized Sotto Voce Quartet is America’s premiere professional quartet of its kind. The quartet enthusiastically challenges preconceived notions about what tubas can do by composing, arranging, and commissioning virtuosic new works that highlight the diversity of their ensemble.

Sotto Voce has three recordings on the Summit Records label:
Consequences, Viva Voce: The Quartets of John Stevens, and Refractions: Old & New Music for Low Brass.

The ensemble maintains an active international touring schedule throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. In 2006, they performed concerts in Germany, California, Alabama (with the Mobile Symphony) and served as the quartet-in-residence at the International Tuba/Euphonium Conference in Denver. They have also been invited to give a concert and clinic at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic. Devoted to education, Sotto Voce hosts a
tuba quartet symposium where they work closely with four invited quartets from around the world.

 

 

Past guest artists: Thomas Bough, Velvet Brown, Neal Corwell, Jason Ham, Lee Harrelson, Howard Johnson, Steve Maxwell, Steven Mead, Ben Pierce, Pat Sheridan, Jason Roland Smith, Sotto Voce Quartet, Helen Tyler, Kevin Wass, Scott Watson, Louis Young.

 

Thomas G. Stein
Associate Professor of Tuba and Euphonium

The University of Missouri - Kansas City
Conservatory of Music, 4949 Cherry St.
Kansas City, MO 64110
816.235.5949 fax: 816.235.5264
SteinT@umkc.edu