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As we move into our 26-27 season, we want to give a shoutout to the graduating members of our leadership team. We’re so ...
09/18/2026

As we move into our 26-27 season, we want to give a shoutout to the graduating members of our leadership team. We’re so grateful for McKenna and Zoe’s contributions to LAB-A as administrators and artists, and wish them the best as they move into their next opportunities! 💜

Interested in gaining impactful arts administration experience and giving back to the brass and percussion community here in Los Angeles? We encourage to you submit an application for LAB-A’s 26-27 leadership team via the link in our bio. Applications close Wednesday, September 23 at 11:59 PST.

We had a blast at our third annual “Season’s Readings” with conductor and composer Morgan Kelly Moss at the helm! Thanks...
09/18/2026

We had a blast at our third annual “Season’s Readings” with conductor and composer Morgan Kelly Moss at the helm! Thanks to everyone who came out to reconnect, read through great music for brass ensemble, and start off our season right.

Hungry for more LAB-A? We’re just getting started! Join our upcoming cycle, “Futures Past”, featuring 20th and 21st century works from composers Jonathan Bingham, Patrick O’Malley, Fisher Tull and others. See you again soon! 👋

LAB-A is back for our fourth season! Join us for our annual season kickoff, “Season’s Readings”, on September 13 from 10...
09/06/2026

LAB-A is back for our fourth season! Join us for our annual season kickoff, “Season’s Readings”, on September 13 from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM. We’ll read through great brass ensemble music, reconnect with returning members, and welcome new musicians to our community!

We’ll have a lunch social after the morning’s reading session at Rock & Reilly’s from 12:30 to 2:00 PM. Looking forward to seeing everyone again soon! 👋

LAB-A is open to all brass and percussion musicians within 5 years of graduation from an undergraduate or graduate performance program, and current graduate students. Sign-up is linked in our bio!

05/09/2026

Meet our featured artist, Dan Rosenboom () 🎺

We are honored and extremely excited to premiere Dan’s piece “In a World Like This, Rhapsody for Solo Trumpet, Brass, and Percussion” tomorrow May 9 at 7pm in the Pasadena Presbyterian Church.

RSVP to our Eventbrite in our bio, or catch us on our livestream provided as well! See you tomorrow 🎉

Dan Rosenboom (b. May 7, 1982) is an internationally recognized trumpet player, composer, and producer. He is known as a prolific member of the Los Angeles creative music scene, having released more than 30 albums of original music as a solo artist and bandleader and has supported over 60 artists across over 120 releases on his label, Orenda Records. His own music eschews genre distinctions and draws from such disparate influences as Black American Music, metal and experimental rock, contemporary classical music, folk music from the Balkans, and a broad range of progressive music from the avant-garde. Rosenboom is also a proud member of the Hollywood studio musician community and has recorded for over 250 major film and television soundtracks with such notable composers as John Williams, Danny Elfman, James Newton Howard, Alan Silvestri, Alexandre Desplat, Ludwig Göransson and many more. He has also performed with such elite ensembles as the LA Philharmonic, the LA Chamber Orchestra, and the LA Opera. The Los Angeles Times has called Dan Rosenboom “a musician dedicated to exploration and expression, regardless of anyone’s imagined boundaries,” and “a phenomenon.”

As a composer, Rosenboom has been recognized with grants and awards from the American Composer’s Forum, ASCAP, the Meet the Composer Foundation, Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music. As a band leader, he had brought his music to such renowned stages stages as the Monterey Jazz Festival, Angel City Jazz Festival, Jazzfestival Saalfelden and Jazz em Agosto. Rosenboom has solidified his place as a pillar in LA’s creative music community through his work with multiple generations of LA icons and rising talents, through his label Orenda Reocrds, with his Balkan- inspired instrumental rock band PLOTZI and improv group DR. MiNT.

05/05/2026

Say hello to Kevin Barba (.barba__), our fourth featured composer in the 2026 Next Up! cohort 🤗

Join us May 9, 7pm at Pasadena Presbyterian Church to feel the joyful energy of Kevin’s “Noche en Jalisco”! Don’t forget to RSVP to our Eventbrite found in our bio 🎉

Kevin Barba is a Mexican American composer whose music is not one specific category, but a wide soundscape of possibilities. His music has been performed by Brightwork New Music, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, HEX Ensemble, Hub New Music, the Beckman Orchestra, and the CSUF New Music Ensemble.
Most recently, he was commissioned by the Beckman High School orchestra to write a piece for string orchestra and percussion. La Heroica y Su Voz premiered at Segerstrom Hall for the Philharmonic Society of OC Orchestra Festival and Carnegie Hall for the New York International Music Festival. The program at Carnegie Hall took part in America 250-Our
American Story, which is a commissioned national storytelling project to collect and preserve the
largest archive of American stories ever created. This program featured works from Vera Ivanova, Soon Hee Newbold, Florence Price, Igor Stravinsky, and Aaron Copland. The program, along with other recorded stories, will be archived at the Library of Congress.
Barba presents the heart of Latin music while using modern ideas to constantly drive the music forward. He maintains Latin American music, culture and experience for all in a genuine, unfiltered and necessary way. By doing so, his goal is to preserve memory, heritage, and
community. Kevin received his A.A. Music from Riverside City College and his B.M. Music
Composition and Theory from Cal State Fullerton.

05/04/2026

Say hello to Davis Reinhart (.reinhart), our third featured composer in our 2026 Next Up! cohort 🤗

Come join the wolf pack with Davis’ brass quintet “21” on May 9, 7pm at Pasadena Presbyterian Church. See you there!

Davis Reinhart is a composer, pianist, trumpet player, and music educator based in Los Angeles, CA. He is a recent graduate of the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater and Dance, with a degree in music composition and minor in performing arts management and entrepreneurship. He is the President and Co-Founder of the nonprofit organization, Muffin Music Inc..

Growing up in Buellton and Santa Ynez Valley, California, Davis was drawn towards all facets of the performing arts, including both theater and dance. While attending Santa Ynez Valley High School, he was a member of the Santa Ynez Valley Jazz Band, Santa Barbara Strings, SYVHS Theater Group, SYVHS Jazz Club, and Fossemalle Dance Studios.

During those formative years in high school, he spent a summer as a collaborative piano student at Music Academy of the West’s MERIT Program where he first met some of his current friends and musical collaborators. By 2019, he began to focus his attention on composition, attending the Brevard Music Center’s summer music festival in North Carolina, where he studied with Greg Simon, Robert Aldridge, and David Dzubay.

Following high school, Davis spent four years attending the University of Michigan where he had the opportunity to work on a wide array of compositional, performance, educational, and administrative projects. Most notably, in 2021, Davis was commissioned to write, record, and produce an original composition for the City of Buellton, thanks to a generous grant provided by the Buellton Arts and Culture Committee and the Buellton City Council. This sparked the beginning of a new project and chapter, focused on giving back to the Santa Ynez Valley community where he grew up and ultimately led to the formation of the nonprofit organization, Muffin Music Inc., which was incorporated in 2022.

05/03/2026

Meet our second composer from the 2026 Next Up! cohort, Madeline Barrett (.m.barrett)! We are honored to perform her piece “Elegy” on May 9, 7pm at Pasadena Presbyterian Church.

Madeline Barrett, based in Los Angeles, CA, is a contemporary composer of concert music striving to evoke imagery of nature and foster human connection. Raised in Phoenix, AZ, she often draws inspiration from the world around her, whether it be oceans of the North American coast, the deserts of Arizona, or the softly bustling streets of Boston. In her compositions, Madeline employs a language of interwoven tertian and non-tertian harmonies, undulating ostinati, and diverse rhythmic landscapes, which derives from an eclectic group of influences, from Baroque counterpoint to French impressionism to 1980s popular music to American jazz. Studying classical piano from the age of 3, she grew up with various styles of music as an important part of everyday life and discovered the beauty of music does not only come from its melodies and harmonies, but rather the ways through which it invokes thought, stimulation, and communication, an ideal which informs her artistic processes.

Madeline attended the Cortona Sessions for New Music in the summer of 2017, where she won the Iron Composer Competition, and the Vienna Summer Music Festival Composer’s forum in the summer of 2018. Most recently, she studied in the Global Academy at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy, during which time her string quartet, BLOOM, was premiered in the Primavera Chigiana Concert Series. She is a recent winner of the 7th Annual Boston New Music Initiative Young Composer Competition for her work The Flowers That Close at Night.

Madeline has a Bachelor of Music in Composition from Chapman University and a Master of Arts from UCLA, and past composition instructors include Jeffrey Holmes, Sean Heim, Vera Ivanova, and Derrick Skye. She is recently received her PhD in composition from UCLA under the tutelage of Ian Krouse and Richard Danielpour.

05/02/2026

It’s time to meet our 2026 Next Up! composer cohort 🎉

Say hello to Robby Good as he introduces his piece and takes us through his experience writing for brass ensemble. Don’t space out, come join us on May 9, 7pm at Pasadena Presbyterian Church to enjoy Robby Good’s “Constellate”!

Robby Good is a Los Angeles-based composer, orchestrator, conductor, and performing musician. He graduated from UCLA’s undergraduate music program with a double degree in Composition and Percussion Performance, with a minor in Film, and later received his Master’s degree in Composition for Visual Media.

Robby has scored nearly 50 films and animations of varying lengths, and has provided the scores to a number of small independent video games, including the steadily-releasing visual novel Project: Eden’s Garden. He was also the music director and orchestra conductor for the fully-staged premiere of Dis-topia, an original musical theatre production that he was the primary composer and sole orchestrator for. Robby’s concert works have been premiered by ensembles such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and the National Children’s Chorus, among others.

Robby is currently the Director of Operations for the Unprecedented Music Association.

The Los Angeles Brass Alliance is proud to present our third annual Next Up! concert 🎉 Please join us on May 9, 7pm at P...
04/18/2026

The Los Angeles Brass Alliance is proud to present our third annual Next Up! concert 🎉
Please join us on May 9, 7pm at Pasadena Presbyterian Church for our last concert of the season.

Next Up! is LAB-A’s new music series that aims to broaden the brass ensemble repertoire with a uniquely Los Angeles flair. In this series, we spotlight emerging composers as they build their musical careers and foster artistic collaboration between composers and brass musicians. To date, LAB-A has commissioned 18 new works for brass ensemble through this series.

Our third iteration of Next Up! will feature a special commission from trumpeter, composer and producer triple-threat Dan Rosenboom (), who will write and premiere a new concerto with LAB-A 🎺
We are also excited to welcome composers Davis Reinhardt (.reinhart), Kevin Barba (.barba__ ), Levy Barlevy (), Maddie Barrett (.m.barrett), Robby Good (), and Shireen Ghosh () to the 2026 Next Up! cohort.

This concert is generously sponsored by , LAB-A’s 25-26 season sponsor. Check out their page to explore all they have to offer brass musicians!

We had a fantastic concert under the tent this Sunday! 🎪 📯Congratulations to our wonderful soloists and on their perfo...
02/25/2026

We had a fantastic concert under the tent this Sunday! 🎪 📯Congratulations to our wonderful soloists and on their performances, and to all our musicians for bravely going where few traditional brass ensembles have gone — brass band! Thank you to for kindly hosting us, and to for their continued support of the brass arts in Los Angeles. We hope you all enjoyed this especially sweet offering from LAB-A! 🧁

Not enough brass wnsemble in your life? Not to worry — our annual new music concert, Next Up, is just around the corner! Stay tuned for composer interviews, behind the scenes at rehearsals, and much more leading up to our May 9th concert. See you again soon! 👋

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