The eurobrass leadership team spent the first few months of 2021 wondering if we would somehow be able to offer some sort of concert tour that year. Due to Covid-19, concerts were limited in size and length, and international travel was complicated at best and impossible at worst. A “normal” tour was completely out of the question. After careful consideration and a great deal of prayer, we found a solution for that unusual year. With a smaller ensemble—a quintet made up of musicians who were already in Germany—we could offer a slightly different sort of tour in a more compact form. In our four weekends together, we experienced everything we would expect from a eurobrass tour: the joy of making music together, deep fellowship within the ensemble, and meaningful encounters with hosts and audience members.
Since January of this year, all five musicians from our 2021 quintet have been back in Germany or Switzerland, and we began thinking of ways to work together again. This idea became the genesis of eurobrass—das Quintett: five eurobrass musicians who are able to meet for a weekend here and there during the year. The quintet has some advantages in comparison to our 12-member eurobrass ensemble. For many years we’ve fielded concert inquiries from churches who wanted to invite eurobrass to play—but not during the summer holidays. Other churches are simply too small to accommodate the large ensemble. The quintet gives us the opportunity to serve these churches.
After a rehearsal weekend in May, we’ll meet for two weekends in June to play a total of five concerts and 2 church services. We’ll be in Hesse for the first of those weekends and in Baden-Württemberg for the other. The schedule appears below; you can click on the location name for more information about each event. We’d love to see you in June!
June 14,, 7:00 p.m. 35116 Hatzfeld-Eder
June 15, 10:00 a.m. 35625 Hüttenberg (worship service)
June 15, 4:00 p.m. 35625 Hüttenberg
June 27, 7:30 p.m. 70184 Stuttgart
June 28, 7:30 p.m. 72290 Loßburg
June 29, 9:00 a.m. 72290 Loßburg-Lombach (worship service)
June 29, 4:00 p.m. 72296 Schopfloch