COMPLETE 2008 SEASON INFORMATION
We are excited to bring ten diverse chamber music ensembles to the 2008 Festival in celebration of our thirtieth anniversary. Below you will find biographical information, photographs and website links for the invited groups to whet your appetites for this summer - our complete calendar including repertoire will be added as soon as it becomes available. We look forward to sharing this beautiful, inspring music with you.

Synergy Brass Quintet performs more concerts than anyone in classical music today, averaging nearly 300 engagements per year. Acclaimed for “a veritable fireworks display of outstanding musical ability combined with superb showmanship” (Door Concerts,Inc) in addition to “blazing precision [and] amazing technique” (The Watertown Daily Times), the Synergy Brass Quintet has emerged as one of the world's most exciting ensembles. Synergy "has hit on a magical approach...unadulterated exuberance, and a rock star approach of performing," (U.S.1).
Their engagements have taken them to every corner of the United States including the Ravinia Music Festival in Illinois, the Bethlehem Musikfest in Pennsylvania, the Tanglewood Music Festival in Massachusetts, and internationally at the Festival de Musica de Camara de Aguascalientes. And, after hearing the ensemble at Tanglewood in 2003, Samuel Adler invited the Synergy Brass Quintet to perform on the premiere recording of his Transfiguration: An Ecumenical Mass. Synergy is often heard on National Public Radio, and in 2005 they broadcast on NBC with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

In addition to Synergy's rigorous performance schedule, the ensemble dedicates an enormous amount of time to the education of tomorrow's musicians and music-lovers. They have presented various programs at over 500 public schools from coast to coast, “[bringing] classical music to the kids in a way that they thought it was some pretty cool music. Not always an easy task to do...
The students (even the non-band students) talked about you long after you were gone” (Bottineau High School, Bottineau, ND). Synergy teaches the various genres of music and composer backgrounds to “present a very educational program” (North Ward Elementary School, McCook, NE), making music accessible to all children.
Please visit the Synergy Brass Quintet website for more information.