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 Tea & Trumpets;
Festival Brass Quintet
Friday, May 2, 2008 at 3:00 p.m.
Friday, May 9, 2007 at 3:00 p.m.
Nona's Courtyard Café (Map)
67 South California Street
Ventura, California
Dr. Stephen Billington, Trumpet/Leader
Kurt Curtis, Trumpet
Mitchell Mochilnikar, French Horn
Charles Warren, Tuba
Ted Weed, Trombone
Dr.
Stephen Billington (Trumpet/Leader) performs with many
ensembles in southern California, including the San Bernardino
Symphony, the St. Matthew's Chamber Orchestra, the West
Hollywood Orchestra, and the Long Beach Opera. He is Chairman
of Performing Arts at Marymount High School in Los Angeles,
where he directs the orchestra and the jazz/rock ensembles.
He is a graduate of Northwestern University and holds a
Doctorate of Musical Arts from the USC Thornton School
of Music.
Kurt Curtis (Trumpet) A current
member of the world-famous Disneyland Band, Mr. Curtis
has toured extensively throughout the US and Japan with
the Make Believe Brass, Royal Brass, Pacific Coast Horns
and, as coronet soloist, with the Americas Brass Band.
He has played on soundtracks for movies and television
and played with Long Beach, Orange County, Riverside and
Mozart Camerata Orchestras.
Mitchell
Mochilnikar (French Horn) is the Entertainment Manager
for Disneyland. He has played for various orchestras, bands,
theaters, and on recordings. He has also taught Middle
School music, and, as a proud father of two teenage girls,
he is also kept busy tending to their musical gifts. Mr.
Mochilnikar has settled in the city where he first attended
college, Long Beach.
Charles Warren (Tuba) has professional
credits as an arranger, teacher, and performer on flute,
sac but, saxophone, serpent, solo lute, string bass, tin
whistle, recorder and tuba. For the Disney Corporation,
Mr. Warren is the international representative and show
developer for Tokyo Disneyland. He's played tuba with Disneyland's
resident brass quintet "The Bellhops" since 1997 and is
a leading area performer of traditional Irish music on
8-key flute. A part-time faculty instructor of tuba at
Long Beach City College, he has over fifty album credits.
Ted
Weed (Trombone) performs for the Walt Disney Company and
throughout southern California. Lead trombone on the Grammy
nominated Big Band album "Don't Make Noise", Mr Weed has
backed up famous singers such as Diane Schuur and Natalie
Cole. He is a regular performer with the Brian Setzer Orchestra
and spent two years as principal trombone with the La Jolla
Symphony. A graduate of San Diego State University, Mr.
Weed lives in Anaheim.
Program will be announced from the stage.
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