The Chicago Brass Band, or CBB, is a thirty-piece brass and percussion ensemble that performs concerts throughout the year in the Chicago Metropolitan Area in addition to participating in festivals and competitions throughout the world. Composed of cornets, flugel and tenor horns, baritones, euphoniums, trombones, tubas and percussion, the Band's repertoire includes classical transcriptions, popular music, jazz, traditional, show tunes, marches and original works for brass band. CBB has toured England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and most recently, New Zealand in the summer of 2019. The Band has twice been featured at the Great American Brass Band Festival in Danville, Kentucky and has been joined in concert by featured soloists from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra including Gene Pokorny, Chris Martin, Charles Vernon, and John Hagstrom. DuPage Community Concert Band exists to embrace and express all of the beauty and glory we can share through playing great music. Concerts feature music that entertains the audience, while stimulating the performer in a manner consistent with the representation and growth of the college and community band.Rehearsal for the DuPage Community Concert Band are Monday nights, 7 to 9:30 p.m., Room 138 -McAninch Arts Center. Membership is open to high school graduates with windwood, brass or percussion experience or to anyone who is otherwise qualified musically to register. Auditions needed for chair placement, but no one refused membership. Call (630) 942-2048 for registration information.
About the Director: Mark A. Taylor is a conductor, educator, and performer in demand throughout the Great Lakes region. Dr. Taylor has taught with distinction at every level of study, ranging from elementary, middle, and high school to collegiate, amateur, and professional musicians. He is Music Director of both Chicago Brass Band and Milwaukee Festival Brass, two award winning British-style brass bands, and Music Director of the Waukegan Band, one of America’s oldest and most historic civic ensembles. He received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 2016 from the University of North Texas. Prior to his doctoral study, he served five years as Director of Bands and Coordinator of Ensembles at Loyola University Chicago, and member of music education faculty at Roosevelt University. Dr. Taylor received the Master of Music degree from Northwestern University. He received his undergraduate degrees from the University of Notre Dame and also performed in the Concert Band, Orchestra, Liturgical Choir, Men’s Glee Club, and Collegium Musicum. Dr. Taylor and his wife and son reside in Lake Forest, IL.
