"Our audience loved you! It was the first time our audience asked for an ENCORE."

- Nancy Wolter,

       Performing Arts City of Mesa

"The SWB workshops and concerts were full of vitality, excitement, and humor. Their OUTER SPACE Concert combined science and music into a delightful educational experience."

- Jean Graham,

       Teacher Manzanita School

"The high artistic quality of the programming, musicianship, technical skill of each performer and the relaxed and comfortable manner in which the programs were presented were praised with great enthusiasm."

- David Meeker,

       Cultural Events Cochise College

"Each program was unique in the way in which you explored the theme. The dramatized characters were clever. I was amazed at the quality of your programs."

- Margaret Ruccolo,

       Music Consultant Cartwright School District

"The SW Brass presented one of those programs which becomes a hit from the first note."

- Bob Fleury,

       Green Valley News

"JURASSIC BRASS: Music & Beasts combine to grab attention. The kids really ate it up."

- Bill Coates,

       Phoenix Gazette

"Everyone should have wedding trumpets - and they should be you!"

- Arlyn Brewster,

       First Christian Church

R e a d   a l l   a b o u t   u s . . .

Recent highlights include a live performance on Channel 3 in Phoenix and a feature in a Chamber Music America national journal. In great demand, the SWB performs over 200 concerts in a season alone, including its own Quality Time Series of Baroque and Romantic masterpieces. HOWL WITH THE WOLVES, a new edutainment concert/slide show, integrates sounds of nature with live music, bringing Arizona habitats and conservation concepts to life for children. The Plylar Academy has authored, published, and distributed nationally a series of instructional book/cassette programs for beginning through advanced brass students. Consequently, the SWB has been invited to present workshops on these innovative programs at the 1996 Arizona Music Educators' Conference.

Originally created by Phoenix Symphony players (from 1967-1976 known as the Phoenix Brass), the Southwest Brass was the resident brass faculty at Arizona State University from 1976-1982. Since 1982, the SWB has been an independent institution, touring 12 of the United States and every Mexican state, often sponsored by the Arizona Commission on the Arts. The SWB has been a premier trend setting Roster company since the ACA inception and has impressed young and old alike in every corner of the state from the Hopi Nation to Yuma.

Its highly acclaimed recordings OLE!, TRUMPETS AND ORGAN SPECTACULAR, ENCORE, and CHRISTMAS WITH THE SWB continue to thrill audiences internationally, while often being compared with the famed Canadian Brass.

Trained by the world's top artists at notable conservatories and festivals, the SWB educational contributions include professorships at major universities throughout the United States, summer music festival instruction, Young Audience Concerts, and Artist Residencies for Kindergarten through College levels. The Arizona Brass Workshop and the Plylar Academy of Music (both created and administered by the SWB) provide these seasoned professionals with an outlet to pass on the legacy of excellence bestowed upon them.

Throughout its illustrious history, the SWB has boasted members associated with major symphony orchestras such as Chicago, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Boston, Seattle, Louisville, Baltimore, Montreal, Bogata, and Hong Kong. Also major recording artists and studio musicians in Los Angeles, big band/jazz specialists, and military band veterans have combined their expertise make the SWB what it is today.