BRASS ’N’ ROLL Presented by Liszt Academy

The BRASS’ N’ ROLL project of the Academy of Music of the University of Ljubljana, the Academy of Music of the University of Zagreb and the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music aims to have reflections on brass ensemble music which is mostly associated with firemen’s or soldiers’ music and street festivities for the wider public. However brass ensembles have a far more classical tradition and were very popular in certain eras of music history.

With this concert programme composition and brass professors and students intend to lay emphasis on the sophisticated and classical character of brass music. The objective is to show the audience the variety of feelings, emotional content that can be expressed and the diversity of sonority that can be produced with these aurulent instruments.

New compositions by composer students from each academy and the comprehensive arrangement of Rameau pieces for brass ensembles can prove that brass music has its valuable place in today’s concert life as well.

The Academy of Music of the University of Ljubljana, the Academy of Music of the University of Zagreb and the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music nourish a long-term professional relationship. This joint project is one special example of the flourishing cooperation between the three higher music education institution related to one another with so many professional cultural and historical bonds. The BRASS’ N’ ROLL project is realized in the framework of Erasmus Blended Intensive Programme in which the involved students and professors took part in several online courses and workshops followed by an intensive rehearsal period in Ljubljana before preforming the concert programme in Ljubljana, Budapest and Zagreb.