M5 BRASS ( Metales M5) will be in concert for ¡VIVA La Música!

METALES M5 - Mexico's Leading Brass Quintet

15 min 19 sec - Feb 11, 2007

Description: Metales M5 is Mexico's leading brass quintet. Since its founding in Morelia, the capital of Michoacan (in the Central Highlands between Guadalajara and Mexico City), the five gentlemen of M5 have been playing a wide variety of music, without regard to genre: Baroque and contemporary music, opera, blues, pop, movie soundtracks, and folk music from Spain, Mexico and other Latin American countries. M5 mixes the well-known with the unexpected - surprising, provocative and always entertaining. Since early 2005, the group has performed over 80 concerts throughout Mexico, created a series of monthly concerts in the Morelia Cathedral, presented two national premieres for brass quintet and symphony orchestra, participated in the 17th International Festival of Music of Morelia, and inaugurated the International Festival Rosario Castellanos in Comitan, Chiapas.

Each of the five members of M5 has an illustrious professional background with their respective brass instrument. Holding degrees from universities in Berlin, Mexico City, Wales and Zacatecas, the musicians have played in the symphony orchestras of Monterrey, Guanajuato, Acapulco, Porto (Portugual), Mexico City, Aguascalientes, and are currently soloists with the Morelia Symphony Orchestra. With their unique style which combines fine chamber music with popular entertainment, Metales de Morelia is the most incomparable brass quintet in Mexico. Fresh, funny and extraordinary! This video features excerpts from La Cumparsita Tango (M. Rodriguez), Concierto para Dos Trompetas (A. Vivaldi), Concierto (A. Vivaldi/J.S. Bach), and James Bond 007 (Monty Norman).