Chris Brubeck Tickets

Details of Chris Brubeck and the Ticket Luck value

Chris Brubeck
Noted Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart says, without putting too much of an onus on Chris Brubeck, we're always looking for the new Gershwins who can take the sounds in American popular musical culture and integrate them into the context of the orchestra, much the way Gershwin and Bernstein did.

Performing and recording with his father, Dave Brubeck, Chris Brubeck has earned international acclaim as composer, performer and leader of his own groups. He plays bass, trombone, piano, guitar and sings with irrepressible enthusiasm matched by his fluid command of jazz, blues, folk, funk, pop and classical musical styles. As an award-winning composer, Chris' natural talents have positioned him in the genre-bending renaissance of modern classical music.

Since 1970, Chris also recorded his original music and toured the world with his own rock, jazz and folk groups. He currently performs and records with The Brubeck Brothers Quartet (BBQ). The BBQ's first CD, Second Nature (Blue Forest), includes several of Chris' original tunes, a spirited treatment of jazz standards, and favorite Dave Brubeck tunes; Triple Play's first CD, Triple Play Live (Blue Forest, 2000), reveals Chris' firm, yet fun-loving, grasp of Americana. Triple Play's second CD, Watching the World, also features many of Chris' original compositions.

Chris has created an impressive body of symphonic work since 1987 with his two bands, the Brubeck Brothers Quartet and Triple Play, and with The Dave Brubeck Quartet. His dominant compositional achievements in the past two years include two orchestral pieces, conducted by Keith Lockhart. In May 2001, the Boston Pops celebrated the Boston Symphony Hall's 100th Anniversary with the world premiere of Chris' Convergence: Concerto for Orchestra, a debut characterized by The Boston Globe as a great event, the world premiere of the most ambitious work ever commissioned by the Pops. Christopher Brubeck's got a hit on his hands, with a long life ahead of it. His second Boston Pops commission premiered in May 2002, was the exciting Interplay for 3 Violins and Orchestra, with performances by violinists Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (classical), Eileen Ivers (Irish) and Regina Carter (jazz). Speaking of Interplay, The Boston Globe said Vivaldi couldn't do it better!

In addition to Interplay for 3 Violins and Orchestra; Convergence: Concerto for Orchestra; and Concerto for Bass Trombone and Orchesta Chris has composed and arranged for The Boston Pops, the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, the Aspen Wind Quintette and The Manhattan Choral Festival. He has written 3 musicals, choral pieces and hundreds of songs through the years, many of which have been recorded and released over the years.

There were abundant jazz influences, writes The New York Times reviewer Anne Midgette, some of the best is Chris Brubeck's fine 'Reverie d'Ivoire'. In 2002, Chris also received glowing reviews for River of Song, penned for famed mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade. One such accolade came from von Stade, who says, Chris' wonderful orchestrations and arrangements have proven that his understanding of the classical idiom is extraordinary. The Norwalk, Connecticut Youth Symphony commissioned Chris to write a piece, Ascension, which premiered in 2002, and he ended the year with an invitation to compose a piece for Vision Into Arts' New York International Pianofest.

Other recent compositions include a piece entitled On the Threshold of Liberty, commissioned by The U.S. Army Field Band and in August, 2003 he premiered Vignettes for Nonet for woodwind quintet and jazz quartet.

In January, 2004 he premiered his Prague Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra with the Czech National Orchestra (his second trombone concerto), and in May, 2004 at Carnegie Hall CityVisions: Concert Overture for Orchestra, the first annual Skitch Henderson Commission by the New York Pops was brought for music lovers. Chris has been named Music Alive Composer-in-Residence with the Stockton Symphony Orchestra and premiered Mark Twain's World: A Symphonic Journey with Genuine Thespians in Stockton, California on April 7th & 9th, 2005.

The Koch International recording Bach to Brubeck in The London Symphony Orchestra is another reflection of Chris' multiple talents. In addition to creating the orchestral arrangements for the recording, Chris was the soloist in his original composition Concerto for Bass Trombone and Orchestra. This work is creating a stir in classical music circles, already receiving multiple performances at The International Trombone Festival and with The Boston Pops, The Pittsburgh Symphony, The London Philharmonic Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Chicago Sinfonietta and the Czech National Orchestra.