The Canadian Brass with Peter Richard Conte 

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The Canadian Brass with Peter Richard Conte 

Organ Series
Canadian Brass & Peter Richard Conte

Date & Price

Friday, March 7, 2025 at 7:30 pm

Ballroom


Tickets

Reserved Seating: $45

Gardens Preferred, Gardens Premium Members, and Innovators: $38

Ticket includes all-day Gardens Admission. Tickets limited. Sell out likely.

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Explore the Entire Series

From familiar faces to new artists to discover, our Indoor Performance Series showcases the beauty of the performing arts in the beauty of our Gardens.

Buy a Bundle, Save 20%

Purchase a bundle of 3, 4, or 5 Indoor Performance Series concerts and save 20%. This discount can be applied when tickets are purchased directly through our Pick 3, Pick 4, or Pick 5 bundles.

Please note: This discount cannot be combined with any other promo code or Member / Innovator discount.

 

Canadian Brass

Joe Burgstaller and Ashley Hall-Tighe, trumpets  
Jeff Nelsen, horn
Achilles Liarmakopoulos, trombone
Chuck Daellenbach, tuba

The original challenge for Canadian Brass was to develop an audience for an ensemble of brass players that, at the time, had no standing in the concert world. What set Canadian Brass apart from all other performing artists in 1970 was the relentless search for repertoire that was both loved by its performers and embraced by a growing brass audience.

The ensemble never ignored an opportunity to relate to its audience, which brought the Brass to international attention. They were at first criticized for talking to audiences and now take pride in seeing the entire concert world embracing engagement as a fundamental element of performance.

They are a North American group taking Bach back to Europe—and winning approval at the highest level was a crowning achievement! Most recently, during the Covid era, the Brass created another award-winning recording, Canadiana. The album features unique arrangements of many Canadian superstars including Joni Mitchell, k.d. lang, Bruce Cockburn, Drake, and DeadMau5.

Education continues to be at the forefront of Canadian Brass’ yearly activities. There are more than one million Canadian Brass quintet repertoire books in the hands of students in every country with a strong brass tradition. Between Hal Leonard Music Publishing distributing its 800 unique individual brass titles and SmartMusic now making available some 76 titles for mixed ensemble use, the Brass continues to shape the future of chamber music ventures.

For a comprehensive Canadian Brass biography, blend together the complete history of any random five musician ensemble and it will yield a year in the world of Canadian Brass. “We’ve created ballets, played Carnegie Hall, toured China during its 1977 reopening, and performed in front of five prime ministers, but most importantly performed for more than ten million friends, family, and audiences worldwide so far. We did all this so we could play Bach,” says tubaist and founder Chuck Daellenbach.

 

Peter Richard Conte – Organ

In 1989, Peter Richard Conte was appointed Wanamaker Grand Court Organist at what is now the Macy’s Department Store in downtown Philadelphia—the fourth person to hold that title since the organ first played in 1911.

He performs a majority of twice-daily recitals, six days each week, on the largest fully functioning musical instrument in the world. Conte is also principal organist of Longwood Gardens, and organist-choirmaster of St. Clement’s Church, Philadelphia, where he directs a music program firmly rooted in the Anglo-Catholic tradition. He is also a frequent collaborator and soloist with The Philadelphia Orchestra.

For 13 years he was heard on The Wanamaker Organ Hour radio show, broadcast via wrti.org. He has been a featured artist at several American Guild of Organists’ national and regional conventions and has performed as a soloist with many other orchestras around the country.

Conte has served as adjunct assistant professor of organ at Westminster Choir College, Princeton, NJ, where he taught organ improvisation. He is the 2008 recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indiana University School of Music, Bloomington. In 2013, the Philadelphia Music Alliance honored him with a bronze plaque on the Avenue of the Arts’ Walk of Fame. His numerous recordings appear on the Gothic, JAV, Pro Organo, Dorian, Raven, and DTR labels. His most recent CD, Virgil Fox Remembered, was released in May 2016 on the Raven label. Conte is represented exclusively in North America by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC.