William Purvis, horn; Allan Dean, trumpet; Scott Hartman, trombone; Thompson Hanks, Jr., tuba and brass ensemble Wind players receive private lessons and participate in weekly seminars. They are encouraged to acquaint themselves with as broad a repertoire as possible in all fields, including performance of baroque and contemporary music. In addition to solo playing, brass players perform in the Yale Cornetto and Sacbut Ensemble and the Yale Brass Ensemble and are required to play in chamber groups, New Music New Haven, and in the Philharmonia.
			Allan Dean, trumpet, is a member of the Summit Brass and the St. Louis Brass Quintet and was a member of the New York Brass Quintet for eighteen years and the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble for ten years. Involved in Baroque and Renaissance music performed on original instruments, Mr. Dean is a founding member of Calliope: A Renaissance Band as well as the New York Cornet and Sacbut Ensemble.  Mr. Dean performs and teaches each summer at the Mendez Brass Institute and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. He has appeared at the Casals and Spoleto (USA) Festivals, the Banff Centre and the Orford Arts Centre in Canada, Musike Belinge in Sweden, and the Puebla Instrumenta in Mexico. He can be heard playing both modern trumpet and early brass on over eighty recordings on major labels including RCA, Columbia, Nonesuch, Pro Arte, CRI, Musical Heritage, and Summit labels. He joined the Yale Faculty in 1988.
			Thompson Hanks, tuba, has been a member of the San Antonio Symphony, the Minnesota Symphony, and the former New York Brass Quintet and Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. He regularly performed with the American Composers Orchestra and was a member for thirty-three years of the New York City Ballet Orchestra. As a conductor, Mr. Hanks has led the Manhattan School of Music Wind Ensemble and is the director of the Yale Brass Ensemble. Mr. Hanks participates in a number of festivals and has been a member of the Chautauqua Symphony for thirty years. In addition, he has made several solo and chamber music recordings which were greeted with generous critical acclaim. Mr. Hanks has been a member of the Yale faculty since 1972.
			Scott Hartman, trombone, received his B.M. and M.M. degrees from the Eastman School of Music and began his career by joining the Empire Brass Quintet and the Boston University faculty in 1984. As a trombone soloist and with his various chamber groups, Mr. Hartman has taught and played concerts throughout the world and in all fifty States. Mr. Hartman performs and records with Proteus7, the Millennium Brass, the Brass Band of Battle Creek, the Hollywood Brass and the trombone quartet, Four of a Kind. He has recorded for the Angel EMI, Sony, Telarc, Summit, and Dorian labels. He is a clinician for the Bach instrument company and has served as a member of the faculties of Indiana University and the New England Conservatory. He joined the Yale faculty in 2001.
			William Purvis, horn, pursues a multifaceted career both in the U.S. and abroad as French horn soloist, chamber musician, conductor and educator.  A passionate advocate of new music, Mr. Purvis has recently given premieres of horn concerti by Peter Lieberson and Bayan Northcott, a trio for violin, horn and piano by Poul Ruders, Richard Wernick’s Quintet for Horn and String Quartet with the Juilliard Quartet, the U.S. premiere of the revised version of the Ligeti Horn Concerto, and conducted the U.S. premiere and recording of Luimen by Elliott Carter. His recording of the Lieberson Concerto and a recording of works of Schumann in collaboration with his wife, pianist Mihae Lee will be released in 2004. Mr. Purvis is a member of the New York Woodwind Quintet, Orpheus, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Mozzafiato (an original instrument wind sextet) and is a frequent guest with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.  He has collaborated with the Juilliard, Tokyo, Orion, Brentano, Mendelssohn, Sibelius and Fine Arts String Quartets, and has toured as solo horn of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe with Nicholas Harnoncourt. Since 1999, Mr. Purvis has taught horn at the Yale of the Yale School of Music, where he is also Coordinator of Winds and Brass. He also holds faculty positions at The Juilliard School and SUNY Stony Brook.