An extremely prolific chamber musician, Forbes has founded the Isthmus Brass (Wisconsin's leading large brass ensemble with a new Summit Records release:  'Isthmus Brass Christmas') and the Isthmus Brass Quintet (a hip sextet of trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba and percussion).  He has also 
co-founded The Wild Trio with hornist Charles Tibbetts and is a co-founder of the Sotto Voce Quartet, America’s premiere tuba/euphonium quartet. Sotto Voce enjoys an international touring schedule and has released a number of recordings also on Summit Records. Their latest CD, 'Take This Hammer:  Works Composed for Sotto Voce' feature two of Forbes's original works for quartet:  'Bridge:  A Mini-Requiem for Countertenor and Tuba Quartet' and 'Four Miniatures,' a work Forbes was commissioned to write for the International Tuba/Euphonium Conference Tuba Quartet Competition held in Budapest, Hungary in 2004.  The other recordings also feature Forbes’s many compositions and arrangements for the quartet genre, many of which can be found in the Editions BIM catalog.  Recently, Sotto Voce toured Norway and gave special clinics and concerts at the Grieg 
Conservatory, Manger Conservatory, and performed as a headline group at the BrassWind Festival in Bergen.

In addition to the works for Sotto Voce, Forbes is a regularly commissioned composer currently serving as a low brass specialist for Kendor Music and as a middle & high school band and orchestra composer for Carl Fischer and FJH Music publishing companies.  He has recently been commissioned by the National Band Association of Wisconsin to compose a new work for their 25th State Band Festival.  Forbes has repeatedly won the Dallas Wind Symphony Fanfare Composition Competition and his works have received numerous awards and accolades by The U.S. Army Band, Humboldt Brass Festival, and the International Tuba-Euphonium Association.

TRACK LISTING:
1. Commemorative Fanfare
2. The Grumpy Troll
3. Tapestries
4. David & Goliath
5. 6 Roundabouts
6. Capriccio
7. Lullaby for tuba and euphonium duet with Brass Tentet

PERSONNEL:
Featured Artist: Mike Forbes: tuba & euphonium;

The University of Alabama Wind Ensemble, Dr. Kenneth Ozzello & Randall Coleman, conductors;

The Sotto Voce Quartet;

Demondrae  Thurman, euphonium;

Mark Carlson, euphonium;

Nat McIntosh & John Stevens, bass tubas;

Stephanie Frye & Blaine Cunningham, contrabass tubas

Additional Details

Label: Summit Records

Genre: Classical

Run Time: 40 mins

Release Date: 02/09/15

UPC: 099402649924