11/22/2025
Arban & Kosleck at 200 | Day Two Recap:
Our closing concert featured thrilling performances by the New-Kaiser-Cornet-Quartett, Sextet Prins Carl from the Livgardets dragonmusikkår, Stockholm, and the Kosleck'sche Bläserbund, a large ensemble performance featuring members of the aforementioned groups who were joined by various professionals for a stirring finale!
Thank you to ALL of our fine presenters, lecturers, and performers who joined us in Lyon these past two wonderful days. From Day 2:
•Keynote Speaker Willi Budde on the life of Julius Kosleck.
•Helen Barsby on Kosleck's method, "Grosse Schule für Cornet á piston und Trompete".
•Matthias Kamps on the possibility of Arban and Kosleck meeting as contemporaries.
•A presentation by Ann-Marie Nilsson featuring sextet Prins Carl, from the Band of the Royal Life Guard Dragoons, Stockholm.
•John Miller on brass performance practice of the Nineteenth century.
•George Foreman on the virtuosity of Jules Levy.
•Tiago Viana de Freitas on the history of the trumpet in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
•Roundtable #2 featuring Sabine Klaus, Helen Barsby, Willi Budde, Géry Dumoulin, Adrian von Steiger, and Arnold Myers on 18th- and 19th-century organology in Kosleck's time.
•Eric Roefs on performances of Ramsøe quartets by The Kaiser-Cornet-Quartett.
•Sandy Coffin on Fraternity in mid-19th century brass chamber music and the role of amateur musicians.
