Buzz knows how to amaze, bedazzle and delight every audience thanks to the diversity of its musical influences, the quality of its performances and the freshness of its stage productions!

【DISTINCTIONS】

Winner—Editor’s Award 2015—Three Weeks Edinburgh newspaper
Ten top picks among the titanic array of productions taking the stage at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe | The History of Music

Winner—”TRILLE OR” Award 2015
Francophone solo artist or group from outside Ontario having most distinguished itself in Ontario (Canada) | L’histoire de la musique

Winner—OPUS Award 2014
Concert of the Year—Multiple Repertoire

Finalist—Young Audiences Music Awards 2012—Jeunesses Musicales Internationales
Production of the Year | The History of Music

Nominee—ADISQ 2010
Album of the Year—Classical—Solo and Small Ensemble | The Planets

Winner—OPUS Award 2007
Production of the Year—Young Audiences | The History of Music

【PRESS REVIEW – OVERVIEW】

A first class brass quintet.”
Three Weeks Edinburgh newspaper, August 2015

“Amazing. The instruments go beyond complementing one another, they achieve the extension of one another to ensure the flow of the discourse.”
Montreal’s daily La Presse, November 2015

“An absolute must for any music lover.”
Fringe Review, August 2015

“Style and intelligence. Impossible to resist.”
Le Journal de Montréal daily, October 2015

“There is both skill and imagination here, and in abundance. Brilliant, exciting, yet always controlled playing.”
Fanfare magazine, July 2012

(PROGRAM) 

1、Suite From The Monteregian Hills    

 Morley Calvert (1928-1991)

2、I. La marche : Marianne s’en va-t-au moulin     

3、My Spirit Be Joyful          

 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

4、Eleven Chorale Preludes          

 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

 Arr. Ralph Sauer

 No. 7 – O God, Thou Faithful God 

 No. 8 – Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming 

 No. 9 – My Heart Is Filled With Longing 

 No. 10 – My Heart Is Filled With Longing (second setting) 

5、Hungarian Dance # 5            

 Johannes Brahms

 Arr. Javier Sebastian Asencio

6、Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2        

 Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

 Arr. Sylvain Lapointe, Julien Proulx & Louis Babin

- Intermission -

7、Amparito Roca      

 Jaime Texidor (1885-1957) & Reginal Ridewood (1907-1942)

 Arr. Graham Hickey

8、.Killer Tango                  

  Sonny Kompanek

9、La fille aux cheveux de lin    

  Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

  Arr. Christopher B.J. Smith

10、Vals Peruano                

  Enrique Crespo (1941-)

11、Dance                     

Wilke Renwick              

12、Trombone Institute of Technology  

  Michael Davis

13、Three Dance Impressions       

  Morley Calvert (1928-1991)

  III. With humour              

14、An American in Paris          

  George Gershwin (1898-1937)

  Arr. Robert Prévost & Christopher B.J. Smith

15、La Rose Nuptiale             

  Calixa Lavallée (1842-1891)

  Arr. Howard Cable

-Encore-

16、Canon    

Johann Pachelbel               

17、I only care about you            

三木たかし