Scott Good

Brass Quintet - compositions, arrangements

The brass quintet has played a pivotal role in my development as a musician.  As a emerging trombonist, I had the honour and pleasure to receive mentoring by the Canadian Brass, and studied the art of chamber music with their pedagogical collections.  This also intimately introduced me to many great composers: Bach, Haydn, Gabrielli, Mozart, Purcell, Handel and so many more.  I was also influenced strongly on their ability to design concerts around specific content driven programs through arranging/transcribing, rather than relying solely on music composed specifically for their instrumentation.  I continue to make re-editing music to suit certain orchestrations a strong part of what I do. 

Although it has been a few years since working with a brass quintet, I have a number of pieces (original and transcriptions) from my busy days as a brass quintet performer.  In particular, with the Trillium Brass Quintet, for whom all of these works were composed.  Although I no longer play with them, they remain an active ensemble: http://www.trilliumbrass.com/