Album Notes

Reviews of Christmas With the Giannini Brass

“Does a beautiful job of making these holiday favorites come to sparkling life. Elegant and crisp, Christmas with the Giannini Brass will delight and entertain those with a weakness for holiday classics served on platters of pure brass. Dig in!"
By Carol Swanson (Christmasreviews.com)
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"Christmas with the Giannini Brass” of North Carolina is one of the most enjoyable brass holiday CDs I’ve heard of late. The serving size is generous—33 tracks—and the highlight is certainly the set of 9 beloved carols in arrangements by Camp Kirkland.
Post Crescent Review (Fox Valley, WI) 12/18/06
By Dr. Gerry Grzyb

Based in the Piedmont area of North Carolina, members of the Giannini Brass perform in nearly all of the professional orchestras in the Carolinas, and have toured and performed with orchestras and chamber music ensembles throughout the United States and Europe. The Giannini Brass has performed in a variety of unusual and interesting performance settings, including multi- media planetarium concerts, with symphony orchestras, and on radio and television programs. The Giannini Brass is on the South Carolina Arts Commission's Approved Artist Roster and the North Carolina Arts Council's Artist Directory. From 1999 to 2001 the Giannini Brass were artists in residence at Classical 89.9 WDAV, the classical music radio station for Charlotte, NC. Giannini Brass is the brass ensemble-in-residence for the North Carolina School of the Arts summer music program, Musica Piccola. The ensemble has released four recordings: Big-Shot Brass, Christmas with the Giannini Brass, Baroque Banquet and Mit Freuden zart (With Tender Joy): Moravian Chorales for Brass. Visit the Giannini Brass website at www.gianninibrass.com