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Conducting the La Scala Brass in Gershwin's a Rhapsody in Blue

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Conducting the La Scala Brass in Gershwin's American in Paris

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Conducting the La Scala Brass in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess

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Conducting the La Scala Brass a tribute to Nino Rota's film music
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Conducting the La Scala Brass in Vivaldi's Concerrto in C for two trumpets

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Conducting the La Scala Brass in Bach's Cantata n.79 (I)

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Conducting the La Scala Brass in Bach's Cantata n.79 (III)

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Conducting the La Scala Brass in the March of the Tin Soldiers from the Nutcracker Ballet

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Conducting the La Scala Brass in the Trepak from Tchaikowsky's Nutcracker ballet

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Conducting the La Scala Brass in Leonard Bernstien's Ouverture Candide

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Conducting the Scala Brass in La Réjouissance from Handel's Royal Fireworks Music

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Conducting the La Scala Brass in the Hornpipe I from Handel's Water Music

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Conducting the La Scala Brass in Handel's Messiah (aria: Every Valley)

Brian Earl, composer

Brian Earl

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Brian Earl

Brian Earl has been a member of the La Scala Opera House and Philharmonic Orchestras since 1983, as well as being a composer and conductor. In this last role he has led the La Scala Brass since 2006. Before emigrating to Italy he studied composition at London University and conducting under George Hurst at the Canford School of music and graduated in tuba and contrabass trombone at the Royal Nothern School of Music. He debuted as a composer in 1995 and has a large and varied catalogue to his credit, including works for wind and symphony orchestras, two chamber operas and music for theatre and screen. He compositions have been performed in several European countries and the USA as well as in Italy.

The most recent years have seen the premiere of his Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra at Rheine in Germany, the premiere of his Cantata The Queen with Golden Hair at the Stresa Festival in northern Italy, the performance of his Sinfonietta for winds at Ancona, at Moncado in Spain and at the University of Stanford in California, where his Dylan Thomas Variations for winds was also premiered in 2016. Also in 2016 he composed the sound track of Dione, a short Science Fiction film. In 2018 the La Scala Brass performed and recorded his Contrapunctus super cantum cremonensem

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