Music at Noon: Spitfire Brass Quintet

Feb. 2, 2026

Friday, Feb. 27, 2026, noon
Maureen Forrester Recital Hall

Spitfire Brass Quintet of the Canadian Armed Forces

Chris Gerdei and Alastair Chaplin, trumpet
Michel Levasseur, French horn
Sam Gervais, trombone
Martin Labrosse, tuba

Program

Under the Double Eagle by Josef Franz Wagner (1856-1908), arr. Arthur Frackenpohl

Quintet No.2 by Victor Ewald (1860-1935)
First Movement

Monterey Sketches by Nicole Piunno (b. 1985)

Three Preludes by George Gershwin (1898-1937), arr. Bill Holcombe

Girl with the Flaxen Hair by Claude Debussy (1862-1918), arr. Gary Kulesha

La Rose Nuptiale by Calixa Lavallée (1842-1891), arr. Howard Cable

That’s a Plenty by Lew Pollack (1895-1946), arr. Steve Cooper

We ask that patrons take photos only during intermission and/or after the show and do not record audio or video unless otherwise announced at the beginning of the show.

Land Acknowledgement

We would like to acknowledge that Wilfrid Laurier University and its campuses are located on the shared traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishnaabe (Anish-nah-bay) and Haudenosaunee (Hoe-den-no-show-nee) peoples. This land is part of the Dish with One Spoon Treaty between the Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabe peoples and symbolizes the agreement to share, protect our resources and not to engage in conflict. From the Haldimand Proclamation of Oct. 25, 1784 this territory is described as: “six miles deep from each side of the river (Grand River) beginning at Lake Erie and extending in the proportion to the Head of said river, which them and their posterity are to enjoy forever.” The proclamation was signed by the British wit​h their allies, the Six Nations, after the American Revolution. Despite being the largest reserve demographically in Canada, those nations now reside on less than five percent of this original territory.