Urban Brass - Elation (2024)

The brass quintet Urban Brass was founded in 2016 at the Stuttgart University of Music. Its members received their musical training from their respective professors, whose excellent reputation is known far beyond the university. They had already played together in the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and then came together to make music together. In the same year, the quintet won first prize at the 10th edition of the renowned Jan Koetsier Competition in Munich, which proved to be the initial spark for further collaboration between the five musicians. A variety of formats are a trademark of the ensemble: from children's concerts including music education offers to performances with organ or other instrumental soloists to very classical concert evenings, the versatile musicians can be experienced.

In recent years, the ensemble has been able to establish itself in the brass scene and, in addition to concerts at home and abroad, has also been heard at renowned festivals such as the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Heidelberg Spring and the Mainz Music Summer.

In the summer of 2022, the ensemble received the Classical Prize of the Westphalian Music Festival in Hamm.