Join Us!
PHSC staff, faculty, students and community members are invited to watch the Stiletto Brass Quintet perform at PHSC's Instructional Performing Arts Center. Stiletto features five highly accomplished women from the U.S. with careers spanning the fields of solo, orchestral, wind band, and brass chamber music: Amy Gilreath and Bethany Vaughn, trumpets; Stacie Michens, horn; Megan Boutin, trombone and Velvet Brown, tuba.
The educational concert will begin at 11 a.m., followed by the public concert at 7 p.m.
Stiletto Brass Quintet Bio
To learn more about the Stiletto's, read their bio below.
Stiletto Brass Quintet Bio
Stiletto Brass Quintet has become a leading chamber ensemble in the United States. Highlighted concerts include guest Artist Ensemble with the Pops Orchestra of Bradenton and Sarasota, at the Festival de Música de Cámera in Aguascalientes Mexico; the International Women’s Brass Conference, performances with Doc Severinsen and the Heartland Festival Orchestra; at the National Trumpet Competition; the International Trumpet Guild Conference; the Great American Brass Band Festival; and concerts/residencies throughout the United States. Stiletto Brass has also shared the stage with Italian jazz great Andrea Tofanelli.
An adamant believer in music for young people, Stiletto Brass, regularly performs educational concerts and gives master classes in the schools while touring. They are involved in commissions of new works and performing those in concerts.
The group, as highlighted in the December 2014 edition of the acclaimed international brass magazine, The Brass Herald, reflects timely changes in the music scene. Its energetic and diversified repertoire includes compositions written by leading composers of our time, as well as classical and popular works from the Baroque period to jazz. Stiletto’s concerts are fun, serious, heart-warming, entertaining and always an audience’s favorite!