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Chicago Moves --- 2012

Recorded Feb 14017 2012 Gaudete Brass: gaudetebrass.com. Founded in 2004, Gaudete Brass is devoted to presenting serious chamber music at the highest level of excellence. The quintet is also dedicated to encouraging worldwide appreciation of the art of chamber music on brass instruments through live performances, recordings, education, and the creation of new works. Gaudete has expanded the brass quintet repertoire by commissioning works from noted composers including David Sampson, John Cheetham, Jan Bach, Rob Deemer, and Stacy Garrop, and by working with emerging young artists through programs such as the advanced composition course at Columbia College-Chicago and the com-position program at Roosevelt University. The ensemble is also dedicated to historically informed performances of Renaissance music, creating and performing its own editions of these works. James Charles Woodward Composer: As an Associate Professor of Music Theory and Composition at Jacksonville State University, Director of Vintage Sweater Records and the JSU Mason Hall Recording Studio, and award winning author, Dr. James Woodward has written and performed in concerts, films, commissions, and musicals. He was the recipient of the 2012 Alabama Music Teachers Association Composer of the Year, the 2006 BMI Pete Carpenter Film Scoring Fellowship, the 2007 Kappa Kappa Psi Alpha Beta Chapter Commission Competition, a Meet the Composer Grant, and a Fellowship at the Virginia Arts Festival John Duffy Composers Institute. His concert works are published by Daehn Publications, GIA Publications, and Cimarron Music Press. Recordings of his works are available on Vintage Sweater Records, Cedille Records, Mark Records, and Baer Tracks Music. Brian Baxter: