Jay Vonada – Trombone
Kirk Reese – Keyboard
Bob Hart – Bass
Kevin Lowe – Drums

Hailed as “one of the foremost performers and teachers in the USA and Canada” and ” one of the greatest trumpet players of our time,” reviewers have called his trumpet playing “virtuosic and lyrical”, “fluid and liquid like tone,” with “a bel canto style that gave this reviewer chills.”

Critically acclaimed Daniel Asia has been heralded by Fanfare Magazine as “…a terrific contemporary American composer…”, “…a composer of fertile imagination…freshness seeps into his scores…”.  On this recording, Asia’s writing covers a time span from 1975- 2017. The pieces presented here cover a broad and evolutionary compositional terrain.  Almost every work includes music of humor and an evanescent lightness as well as music of seriousness that reaches towards transcendence and a place of reverence.

“…Hetzler is so good…one of the world’s great trombone players…” -American Record Guide

Craig Fraedrich – trumpet and flugelhorn

RED HOT!!

“…This is a wonderful recording of new, highly accessible music for horn, tuba and piano, and the musicians on the recording perform brilliantly.”  -The Horn Call

One afternoon in Houston in the Spring of 1989, hornist Thomas Bacon’s agent called him in from another room by saying, “You’ve got to come listen to this…!” Composer Mark Schultz had sent Bacon a copy of his recently completed Dragons in the Sky for horn, percussion and tape asking if he might consider coming over to Austin to premiere the music at The University of Texas. The answer was an immediate ‘yes’ and the performance a month later was enthusiastically received.

This recording consists of ten works by some of their American commissioned composers.

Fitting the Summit Education mold, Columbus State University is a university of over 6,000 students located in Columbus, Georgia. The Schwob School of Music (where this recording was produced), housed in the state-of-the-art $67 million RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, is a highly selective school of music offering undergraduate and masters degrees in various musical disciplines. The wind ensemble activities at CSU are directed by Dr. Robert W. Rumbelow. This includes the CSU Wind Ensemble, a premier touring ensemble. Clarinetist Dr. Lisa Oberlander joined the faculty of Columbus State University in 1998. She has made several recordings and is a frequent chamber musician, solo recitalist, and clinician, giving recitals across the U.S.

SOLOS is, as this disc’s name implies, a collection of solo works written from 1976 to 1996. It presents another side of American composer Daniel Asia, who until now has been represented on CD mainly by orchestral, ensemble and vocal works. This disc passes over Asia’s largest-scale solo work, a piano sonata that is available elsewhere, and focuses instead on music for less common solo instruments: The Alex Set for oboe, PLUM-Dream Sequence II for flute, ORANGE for viola, Marimba Music, and Dream Sequence I for Asia’s own instrument, the trombone.

A critically acclaimed modern-day composer scores again with another genius plate of works dialed up in typical Asia fashion.
Ninth recording on Summit.