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SAMUEL EURICH, Trumpet - holds a B.S. in Music Education from the University of Connecticut where he studied with William Wich and Daniel Patrylak. In addition to the Thread City Brass Quintet, he plays soprano cornet in The Charter Oak Brass Band (British-style brass band) and is active as a free-lance player. Sam also keeps the quintet supplied with creative musical arrangements. When not playing music, he works in Information Technology.
DANIELLE HORAN, Trumpet - earned her B.S. in Music Education from Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, NY, and her M.M. in Trumpet Performance from Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. Over the past 15 years, she has taught instrumental and vocal music at the elementary and secondary levels in New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, while playing in a variety of ensembles local to those areas. She is currently teaching in East Longmeadow, MA, performs regularly with the Charter Oak Brass Band, and is an active freelance player. When not making music, she enjoys spending time with friends and family, hiking, kayaking, and silver smithing.
VIRGINIA EURICH, Horn - studied music at Drake University in Iowa and has a B.S. in Music Education from the University of Connecticut. She is a member of the Willimantic Orchestra and performs regularly with several other organizations. Ms. Eurich teaches instrumental music in parochial schools and is a private horn instructor. She resides, with husband Sam and three cats, in eastern Connecticut.
GARY KIRSCH, Trombone - is active throughout Connecticut and Massachusetts as a performer in many groups, among them The Worcester Symphony, CT Virtuosi Orchestra and Classic Brass, a British style brass band. As a conductor, Mr. Kirsch has led the East Woodstock Cornet Band, the Gilbert and Sullivan Summer Workshops at CSA and was the Band Director at Southern Connecticut State University. Mr. Kirsch has taught public school in Plainfield and Hamden, CT. As a private teacher, Mr. Kirsch’s students have gone on to UConn, Eastman, Oberlin and Princeton. His students consistently place well in festivals and auditions. Mr. Kirsch graduated in 1995 from the University of CT with a B.A. in Music and a B.S. in Music Education.
DANIEL GREEN, Tuba - Daniel Green received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Hartt School of Music. Mr. Green taught music in the West Hartford Public Schools for 35 years while maintaining a busy performance schedule, performing tuba with many groups including Charter Oak Brass Band, Hartford Pops Band, West Hartford Symphony, CT Valley Symphony Orchestra, Manchester Symphony and several professional brass chamber ensembles. An avid performer of renaissance and baroque music, Mr. Green has performed on renaissance trombone with Alta: a renaissance wind trio, The Grande Bande, ARTEK, Yale Schola Cantorum, Amherst Early Music Festival, Spiritus Collective, Bach Sinfonia and Boston Baroque. In 2013 Dan had the opportunity to play renaissance trombone and recorder on Broadway in productions of Shakespeare’s Richard III and Twelfth Night.
The Thread City Brass Quintet has enjoyed the company of many fine musicians who were part of the quintet or performed with the quintet over the years, among them: Founding members Bob Lemons, Gus Mazzocca, and Dave Yutzey, along with Bill Cournoyer, Joanne Edwards, John Helmke, Joanna Hersey, Craig Knox, Samantha Lake, Jim Lendvay, Peter Lillpopp, Maureen Murphy, Pete Olson, Steve Owens, Don Siler, and Jessie Wills.
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