The ensemble's extensive repertoire is as varied as the audiences for which they have performed. Renaissance and Baroque music from the 15th and 16th centuries, romantic melodies, Broadway show tunes, big band music, marches, opera and contemporary literature all find their way into programs presented by this talented group of musicians. Several members of the group arrange and compose for the quintet.
Concerts have been given in dozens of churches, on a score of college campuses, and at numerous schools, summer concert series, nursing homes and libraries.
Peter
Johnston, Trumpet - Pete is
a graduate of Millersville University
and is a retired music teacher who taught in the Gettysburg Area School
District for 32 years. After graduation,
Pete performed and traveled the east coast with a 7 piece dance band. He then traveled to Caracas, Venezuela where
he performed with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Venezuela and the National
Opera
and Ballet orchestras. He returned home
in 1980 to be married. Pete has
performed with the Keystone Brass Quintet for over 35 years and the
Gettysburg
Chamber Orchestra for more than 20 years.
Pete is a freelance musician and has performed with orchestras
in York,
Harrisburg, Lancaster as well as the Shippensburg Festival Orchestra.
Steve Burg, Horn - Steve is a charter member
of the group and held the position of Principal
Horn with the York Symphony
Orchestra (YSO) from 1978 until 2010. Steve retired from the YSO in May
of
2017, after 45 years of service. Steve has performed with the
Harrisburg Opera
Orchestra, the Pine Street Presbyterian Festival Orchestra of
Harrisburg, the
York Oratorio Society Orchestra, the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, the
Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra, the Spring Garden Band of York, and
various other
groups in the Central Pennsylvania Area.
For more information on the KEYSTONE BRASS QUINTET contact Steve Burg: