Bay Colony Brass is one of the few large brass ensembles (or brass
choirs) of its kind in the United States. Composed of twenty players,
the group performs a broad range of repertoire spanning five
centuries of brass and orchestral music, vocal music, Broadway
shows, and even the occasional pop song. They play three sets of
concerts a year plus two Christmas programs at various
sites in the Boston area. Bay Colony Brass is a volunteer
organization and registered 501c3 nonprofit in Massachusetts.
Channing Yu, Music Director
American orchestra and opera conductor Channing Yu begins his
first season as Music Director and Conductor of Bay Colony Brass. He is
also Music Director of the Mercury Orchestra in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the national winner of the 2010
American Prize in Orchestral Conducting in the community orchestra
division.
He has previously served as Artistic Director and Conductor of
the Lowell House Opera, the oldest opera company in New England, where
he conducted over thirty fully staged performances with
orchestra, including Tchaikovsky’s
Eugene Onegin, Richard Strauss’s
Der Rosenkavalier, Puccini’s
Turandot, Verdi’s
Otello, and
Puccini’s
Tosca. For his musical direction of
Tosca, he was awarded second prize in the 2011 American Prize in Opera Conducting national competition.
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