David Jolley, french horn
Haim Avitsur, trombone
Thomas Hoyt, trumpet

Three world-class virtuoso soloists have come together to revolutionize the brass trio, and are being hailed as the first brass group ever to play with the sensitivity and musicality of a string quartet. Trumpeter Thomas Hoyt, french hornist David Jolley and trombonist Haim Avitsur have forged together classical, light classical and classical/jazz masterworks of all eras and adapted them in unique and innovative instrumentation. Of the New York Brass Arts Trio, Classical Sonoma wrote: “Every now and again a performance comes along that takes you by surprise with its brilliance… and makes you realize you’ve just witnessed something special.” In the 2017-18 season the trio performs with Camerata Musica.

Three world-class virtuoso soloists have come together to revolutionize the brass trio. Thomas Hoyt (trumpet), David Jolley (french horn), and Haim Avitsur (trombone) have forged together unique Classical and Jazz masterworks of all eras and have adapted these pieces for their innovative instrumentation. Of the New York Brass Arts Trio, Classical Sonoma wrote “Every now and again a performance comes along that takes you by surprise with its brilliance… and makes you realize you’ve witnessed something special.”

The members of the New York Brass Arts Trio each bring great experience to the table. Jolley is a pre-eminent horn soloist of his generation, performing as a soloist with major orchestras, collaborating with major string quartets (Guarnieri, Orion and American), and is a founding member of the Grammy-winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Avitsur is the only trombonist named a 2005 and 2007 Emerging Artist by Symphony Magazine and has premiered over 80 compositions. Hoyt has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and New York City Opera and recorded with Orchestra of St Luke’s and Bang On A Can.

In addition to their individual performance accomplishments, the members of the Trio all maintain teaching posts at major American musical institutions (Peabody Institute, Manhattan School, Mannes, North Carolina School for the Arts, Queens College and Westchester University).

DAVID JOLLEY

David Jolley has been described as “a soloist second to none” by Gramophone Magazine and hailed for his “remarkable virtuosity” (New York Times). He has traveled extensively in North and South America, Europe, East Asia, and Japan. A chamber artist of unusual sensitivity and range, Mr. Jolley has frequently collaborated with such groups as the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, the Guarneri Quartet, the American String Quartet, the Beaux Arts Trio, Musicians from Marlboro, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Mr. Jolley is a member of the virtuoso quintet “Windscape”, and he is also a founding member, now Emeritus, of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, with whom he toured widely and made over two dozen recordings for the Deutsche Grammophon label.

A frequent soloist with orchestra, Mr. Jolley has appeared with symphonies across the US, including Detroit, Rochester, Memphis, San Antonio, Phoenix, Florida West Coast, New Mexico, and Vermont. Internationally, he has appeared with the National Symphony of Brazil in Rio de Janiero, the Kamerata Orchestra of Athens, the Israel Sinfonietta, and the Israel Kamerata in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Mr. Jolley’s keen interest in enlarging the solo horn literature has led to the composition of many new works for him, including Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Concerto, which Mr. Jolley premiered with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. He has performed in many summer festivals, including Marlboro, Sarasota, Aspen, Mostly Mozart, Bowdoin, and the Music Academy of the West. Mr. Jolley has six solo recordings on the Arabesque label, including Mozart Concerti and Strauss Concerti with the Israel Sinfonietta. Mr. Jolley is on the faculties of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Mannes College of Music, and Queens College-CUNY.

HAIM AVITSUR

Haim Avitsur has premiered over eighty new pieces encompassing a broad range of styles from solo trombone to chamber music and orchestra. Mr. Avitsur is the Trombone Professor at West Chester University School of Music (PA) and at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, NY. He has also served on the faculty of the University of Virginia and was the Principal Trombonist of the Charlottesville Symphony Orchestra.

In 2005 he founded the Summer Trombone Workshop, which has a US residency at Temple University, and recently enjoyed a second residency in Taiwan. Due to the ongoing success, other trombone workshops have followed. Haim Avitsur premiered a trombone/shofar concerto composed by Meira Warshauer with orchestras including the Dayton Philharmonic, the USC Symphony Orchestra, the Brevard Philharmonic, the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra and the Western Piedmont Symphony Orchestra.

Avitsur was the only trombonist named an Emerging Artist (in 2005 and 2007) by Symphony Magazine. His book, “The Avitsur Method”, is now available through Design for Lightning Publishing. His most recent solo CD, featuring sonatas for trombone and piano by David Loeb, is available on the Vienna Modern Masters Label. Mr. Avitsur is a clinician for the Edwards Instrument Company.

THOMAS HOYT

Thomas Hoyt is a versatile trumpet player and professor at NYU Steinhardt and CUNY’s Aaron Copland School of Music who has performed on Broadway, with New York’s most esteemed ensembles and orchestras. You might have heard him in Wicked, Dance of the Vampires or Jane Eyre or with the New York City Ballet, New York City Opera, Orchestra of St Luke’s or American Symphony. He has also performed with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Speculum Musicae, and can be heard in recordings of Tenor Arias with Orchestra of St Luke’s or Bang On A Can’s cult album Music For Airports.