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Chestnut Brass Member Bios
Bruce Barrie (founding member CBC) is a noted performer on modern and historical brasses, including the piccolo trumpet, keyed bugle, saxhorn, natural trumpet and cornetto. In addition to sixteen recordings with the Chestnut Brass Company, Mr. Barrie is solo natural trumpet on the critically acclaimed Buxtehude Project (PGM), and is solo trumpet on the widely praised Naxos recording of the chamber music of George Antheil. He has been a soloist with the Boulder Bach Festival, Philadelphia Classical Orchestra, Concerto Soloists and the Princeton Bach Festival. He has performed with with the Mont Alto silent movie orchestra, the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra as well as Boulder Brass and Denver Brass. A graduate of the Philadelphia Musical Academy and Westchester University, Mr. Barrie studied with Frank Kaderabek, Samuel Krauss, and James Burke.
John Charles Thomas , (CBC member since 2002), is an active performer and teacher in New York. His appearances as a soloist and chamber musician have taken him to Europe, Asia, Canada and around the U.S. Originally from Springfield, Ohio, Dr. Thomas is currently the principal trumpet with the Ridgefield Symphony (Connecticut), and associate principal trumpet of the Queens Symphony (NYC). He has performed with the New York Cornet and Sacbut Ensemble, Solisti New York, Trier Bach Soloists (Germany), Vienna Symphony, Dave Brubeck, and The Temptations. Dr. Thomas appears frequently with the New York Philharmonic and is currently teaching at Ithaca and Bard Colleges.
Marian Hesse, (CBC member since 1986) is Professor of Horn at the University of Northern Colorado. A Colorado native, Ms. Hesse has performed as principal horn with Boulder Bach Festival, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra. She can be heard on the soundtrack recording of Ken Burns? The Civil War, the Mozart Orchestra recording music of William Herschel and the Music of George Antheil. Ms. Hesse has taught at the University of Kansas, Rowan University and LaSalle University. A graduate of the Yale School of Music, Ms. Hesse has studied with Christopher Leuba, Jack Herrick and Paul Ingraham
Larry Zimmerman, trombone, (CBC member 16 seasons) is Principal Trombonist of the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra and the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra. A resident of Minneapolis, he has also performed with the Minnesota Orchestra and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Zimmerman is active as a soloist & chamber musician, and has recently presented programs of new music for trombone with piano, organ, tape, film, & other instruments. He is a low brass instructor at St. Olaf College, Bethel University, and the University of St. Thomas. Mr. Zimmerman, a graduate of Boston University (MM) and St. Olaf College (BA), has studied with Tom Ashworth, Ron Barron and Paul Niemisto.
Jay Krush, tuba, (founding CBC member 1977) is Lecturer in Tuba and Euphonium at Temple University and is tubist with the Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra. An active composer with more than 60 completed works, he has received grants and awards from organizations such as the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His music has been performed by the CBC, Network for New Music, and orchestras in states including Alaska, North Dakota and Pennsylvania. Mr. Krush, who studied with Cherry Beauregard and Arnold Jacobs, is a graduate of Northwestern University (MM) and the Eastman School of Music (BM/composition).
