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raymond
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Raymond Mase has distinguished himself as a soloist, chamber artist, and orchestral musician. As soloist, he has appeared with the Boston Pops, American Composers Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, New York Virtuosi, Moscow Virtuosi, Naumburg Orchestra, Summit Brass, at the Bethlehem Bach and Aspen Music Festivals, and with numerous regional orchestras throughout the U.S. He recently appeared with the ACO at Carnegie Hall for the New York premiere of David Sampson's Triptych (written for Mase) which performances received stunning critical praise. He is heard as soloist on recordings by Orpheus, the Summit Brass, the contemporary music group Parnassus, and on two recent solo compact discs entitled Trumpet in our Time and Trumpet Vocalise. His current solo and concerto recordings may be found on the Deutsche Grammaphon, Summit, Koch, Cambria, and MHS labels. In April 1998, he recorded the Sampson Triptych with the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Alan Balter conducting. Since 1973, he has served as trumpeter with the American Brass Quintet, "the high priests of brass" (Newsweek), and has made over thirty recordings with the Quintet. He has been responsible for many of the ABQ's performance editions and recordings of 16th, 17th and 19th century brass music. He is also a founding member of the New York Cornet and Sacbut Ensemble, a group specializing in the performance of early brass music on original instruments, and the Summit Brass. Raymond Mase serves as co-principal trumpet of the American Composers Orchestra, New York City Ballet Orchestra, the Westchester Philharmonic, and has regularly performed and recorded with the New York Philharmonic, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Speculum Musicae, and Musica Sacra. He is the Chairman of the Brass Department at The Juilliard School and also serves on the faculties of the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Aspen Music Festival.
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