Brent Grapes plays the trumpet.

Cocktail Hour with Brent Grapes Brass Through the Ages

  • Classical Music
  • Sydney Symphony Orchestra
  • Utzon Room
  • Run time: 60 minutes Subject to change

Associate Principal Trumpet Brent Grapes has curated a program that showcases the incredible history and versatility of brass instruments

Brass instruments have been around for thousands of years, featuring in military, religious and courtly ceremonies, marching bands, orchestra, chamber music and so much more.

That versatility is on full display in this program curated by Associate Principal Trumpet Brent Grapes, from Joan Tower’s undulating, pulsing Copperwave to Giovanni Gabrieli’s 16th century canzona La Spiritata and the buoyant and florid Sextet by Oskar Böhme, one of the foremost trumpeters of his day.

Presented by Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Event details

Program

GABRIELI Canzon I, La Spiritata 
BÖHME Brass Sextet 
Joan TOWER Copperwave 

Artists

Brent Grapes Trumpet 
Musicians of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra 

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Plan your visit

Address

Sydney Opera House
Bennelong Point
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia

Getting to the venue

The Opera House is a 7-10 minute walk from Circular Quay, and is easily accessible by car, train, ferry, lightrail, bus, bike and on foot.

Location and access

Utzon Room

The Utzon Room is located on the Eastern side of the Opera House, in front of the Joan Sutherland Theatre. Best accessed through the Box Office Foyer or the Covered Concourse. All Sydney Opera House foyers are accessible, with lifts to the main and western foyers. The public lift to all foyers is accessible from the corridor near the escalators on the Lower Concourse and also in the Western Foyer via the corridor on the Ground Level (at the top of the escalators).

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