Symphonic Band
The North Suburban Symphonic Band is a community organization of approximately 75 volunteers who share a love of music and the desire to bring quality symphonic band literature to the community. The NSSB is unique in the North Hills area, as it is a full symphonic band encompassing woodwinds, brass and percussion instruments. The NSSB was founded in 1992.
Big Band Jazz Ensemble
The North Suburban Big Band (NSBB) is a classic “big band” in the tradition of the legendary bands of Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Glenn Miller. The band plays the original music of the greatest composers/arrangers, artists and bands in jazz history, and is comprised of local area band directors, industry professionals, and some of the area’s finest college music majors. Consistent with our Mission, the NSBB provides a forum in which young musicians can supplement their professional studies during the summer months as they prepare to pursue careers in music. Above all, the NSBB will help to preserve and expand the awareness of big band music in America.
The Woodwind Ensemble is available for summer performances. You may contact us at info@nssband.org.
The Woodwind Ensemble is available for summer performances. You may contact us at info@nssband.org.
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Woodwind Ensemble
Our woodwind ensemble performs music composed or arranged for woodwind quintets. This type of ensemble has its roots in 18th Vienna courts, becoming over the next hundred years mainstream entertainment throughout Europe.
Virginia Netchi - Flute Jeff Callen - Flute
Carolyn Kubik - Oboe Fran Suhoski - Oboe
Margaret Peters – Clarinet Carolyn Zimmerman - Clarinet
Dave Callen - Bassoon Ron Quinn - Bassoon
Kimberly Hummel - French horn Chad Toporski - French horn
The Woodwind Ensemble is available for performances. You may contact us at info@nssband.org.
Virginia Netchi - Flute Jeff Callen - Flute
Carolyn Kubik - Oboe Fran Suhoski - Oboe
Margaret Peters – Clarinet Carolyn Zimmerman - Clarinet
Dave Callen - Bassoon Ron Quinn - Bassoon
Kimberly Hummel - French horn Chad Toporski - French horn
The Woodwind Ensemble is available for performances. You may contact us at info@nssband.org.
Brass Ensemble
A brass quintet is a five-piece musical ensemble composed of brass instruments. The most common instrumentation is two trumpets or cornets, one French horn, one trombone or euphonium\baritone, and one tuba or bass trombone. As an ensemble type, the brass quintet is very flexible, with a repertoire encompassing musical genres from madrigals to jazz and everything in between. The instrumentation for a brass quintet is very flexible.
The contemporary brass quintet was started in the late 1940s by two different groups operating independently -- the Chicago Brass Quintet and the New York Brass Quintet. Two members of the Chicago Brass Quintet can arguably be credited with helping plant the seed for today's success of the brass quintet medium. The Canadian Brass has gone on to establish both the style and popularity of the quintet medium throughout the world having performed more than five thousand concerts and having sold more than 500,000 quintet music books for performers around the world, affirming the rise of the brass quintet as a world-wide phenomenon.
Cyndi Mancini - Trumpet
JP Scanga - Trumpet
Bethany Morse - French Horn
Jacob Moon - Euphonium
Carrie Halas - Tuba
The NSSB Brass Ensemble is available for performances. You may contact us at info@nssband.org.
The contemporary brass quintet was started in the late 1940s by two different groups operating independently -- the Chicago Brass Quintet and the New York Brass Quintet. Two members of the Chicago Brass Quintet can arguably be credited with helping plant the seed for today's success of the brass quintet medium. The Canadian Brass has gone on to establish both the style and popularity of the quintet medium throughout the world having performed more than five thousand concerts and having sold more than 500,000 quintet music books for performers around the world, affirming the rise of the brass quintet as a world-wide phenomenon.
Cyndi Mancini - Trumpet
JP Scanga - Trumpet
Bethany Morse - French Horn
Jacob Moon - Euphonium
Carrie Halas - Tuba
The NSSB Brass Ensemble is available for performances. You may contact us at info@nssband.org.
Dixieband Ensemble
Our dixieland jazz ensemble performs a style of jazz that developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century, and spread to Chicago and New York City in the 1910s.
Dixieland jazz combined brass band marches, French Quadrilles, ragtime, and blues with collective, polyphonic improvisation by trumpet (or cornet), trombone, and clarinet over a "rhythm section" of piano, drums, and a double bass or tuba.
Piano -- Mimi Fleming, Carolyn Zimmerman
Tuba -- Bill Baxter, Sean Desguin
Drums -- Bob Hunt, Nick Pregibon
Banjo -- Rob Nigrelli
Trombone -- Jim Grosheider, Peter Stein
Trumpet -- Don Baxter, Mark Gloff, Bud Rosevear, Charlie Tea, Gillian Withey
Clarinet -- Peggy Burr, Kathy Masciola
Tenor Sax -- Jim Bouwkamp, Steve Ehrin
The Dixieland band is available for performances. You may contact us at info@nssband.org.
Dixieland jazz combined brass band marches, French Quadrilles, ragtime, and blues with collective, polyphonic improvisation by trumpet (or cornet), trombone, and clarinet over a "rhythm section" of piano, drums, and a double bass or tuba.
Piano -- Mimi Fleming, Carolyn Zimmerman
Tuba -- Bill Baxter, Sean Desguin
Drums -- Bob Hunt, Nick Pregibon
Banjo -- Rob Nigrelli
Trombone -- Jim Grosheider, Peter Stein
Trumpet -- Don Baxter, Mark Gloff, Bud Rosevear, Charlie Tea, Gillian Withey
Clarinet -- Peggy Burr, Kathy Masciola
Tenor Sax -- Jim Bouwkamp, Steve Ehrin
The Dixieland band is available for performances. You may contact us at info@nssband.org.
