About Us
3rd Coast Brass is the premier brass ensemble in the Chicago area. Our members perform with some of the top orchestras in the United States, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and many others.
Our mission is to pay tribute to the great history of brass ensembles of the world and to explore the finest new repertoire of the future.
In May of 2024, 3rd Coast Brass will officially debut as a symphonic brass ensemble in a program of Gunther Schuller's Symphony for Brass and Percussion and Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, arranged by Elgar Howarth. This tribute to the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble will help to celebrate Chamber Music on the Fox's 10th Anniversary season as it's season finale concerts.
Appearing as a quintet, 3rd Coast Brass was the featured chamber ensemble at the Pine Mountain Music Festival in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan during the summer of 2012.
Trumpet
David Inmon
David Inmon works as a freelance artist in the Chicago area. He plays frequently with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Lyric Opera Orchestra. As a chamber artist, he is a member of the Millar Brass
Ensemble and Tower Brass of Chicago and can be heard on many of their recordings. He also performs with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Philharmonic,
Ravinia Festival Orchestra, Joffrey Ballet, Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, Elgin Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Sinfonietta, World Festival Orchestra, and Fulcrum Point New Music Project as a regular or substitute player.
David Inmon holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Education with a specialization in Performance from Northwestern University. His primary teachers were Vincent Cichowicz and Luther Didrickson. He is an alumnus of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago where he learned from Adolph “Bud” Herseth and Mark Ridenour. Before joining the faculty at University of Illinois in Chicago, David taught at Northeastern Illinois University for seven years. In his free time he enjoys woodworking, astronomy, and hiking with his wife and three children.
Mike Brozick
Mike Brozick is the Second Trumpet of the Grant Park Orchestra and a member of the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Philharmonic, and the principal trumpet of the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra. He has performed with the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Milwaukee Symphony, and Music of the Baroque. He has recorded Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony with the Chicago Symphony and Richard Strauss’ Elektra, Suite from the Opera with the Pittsburgh Symphony. He has performed on the Pittsburgh Symphony's European tour throughout Spain and in Vienna's Musikverein. As a chamber musician he is a member of the International Chamber Artists, 3rd Coast Brass, and has performed live on Chicago’s classical music radio station WFMT.
Mr. Brozick earned his Bachelor of Music Education degree from Duquesne University and a Master of Music in performance from Rice University and was a Fulbright Fellow studying at the Stätliche
Hochschule für Musik in Detmold, Germany. Mike is an active recitalist and has been featured as a soloist with the Northwest Indiana Symphony, New Philharmonic, DuPage Symphony, Salt
Creek Sinfonietta, and the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra.
Rebecca Oliverio
Rebecca Oliverio is currently a member of the Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra. Prior to joining the Lyric Opera, Ms. Oliverio spent one season with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach. She received her Master of Music degree at Northwestern University where she studied with David Bilger, Channing Philbrick, Thomas Rolfs, Michael Sachs and Robert Sullivan.
During her undergraduate degree at Boston University she studied in London at the Royal College of Music with Mark Calder and Paul Sharp on natural trumpet. Her teachers at BU were Terry Everson, Thomas Rolfs and Thomas Siders. Summer engagements during her studies included fellowships at the Tanglewood Music Center, Music Academy of the West and the National Repertory Orchestra. In addition, she was a member of the New England Brass Band as a front row cornet player and soloist. Ms. Oliverio has performed with various Chicago-based ensembles including Fulcrum Point New Music Project, Tower Brass and the Bach Week Festival. She has also performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Philharmonic and Grant Park Orchestra.
Horn
Matthew Oliphant
Hornist Matthew Oliphant is a new music and chamber music specialist living in Chicago, IL. Oliphant is fast becoming known as an adventurous and courageous young player. As solo hornist with new music group Ensemble Dal Niente, he performs the music of our time by established and emerging composers, as well as classics of the new music repertoire.
In demand as a freelance chamber musician, he has performed with Fulcrum Point New Music Project, Access Contemporary Music, Present Music, the New Millennium Woodwind Quintet, and on the Rush Hour concert series. In addition, he has performed as principal horn of the St Paul Chamber Orchestra, The Florida Orchestra, the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, and Orchestra Prometheus.
Trombone
Reed Capshaw
Reed Capshaw currently holds the position of Principal Trombone of the Elgin Symphony, the Lake Forest Symphony, and the South Bend Symphony, in addition to performing with the Chicago Philharmonic. He is an alumnus of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. He has performed with the Chicago Symphony and toured with the Cleveland Orchestra. While in Chicago he frequently performs with many of the great area ensembles, including the Lyric Opera Orchestra and the Grant Park Symphony. In 2011 Reed performed the Milhaud Concertino D’Hiver with the South Bend Symphony. He has also been a soloist with the Naperville Community Band. He is a member of The Chicago Trombone Consort, the Third Coast Brass Quintet, and Tower Brass of Chicago. He is currently an Artist-Teacher at Roosevelt University and teaches trombone at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Jeremy Moeller
Jeremy Moeller was appointed Principal Trombone of the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra by Music Director Sir Andrew Davis in 2009. He also currently serves as Assistant Principal/Second Trombone for the Grant Park Orchestra during the summer season, a post he has held since 2004, and Principal Trombone with the Chicago Philharmonic. Prior to his appointment at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Jeremy served as Acting Second Trombone with the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops for two seasons.
He has also performed with the Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Atlanta, San Antonio, Charleston, and Grand Rapids Symphonies, and the Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center.
As a chamber musician, Jeremy has performed and can be heard on recordings with the Chicago Symphony Brass, Chicago Symphony Brass Quintet, Chicago Trombone Consort, the Burning River Brass, the Tower Brass of Chicago, and the Avatar Brass Quintet. He has also performed on Chicago WTTW's
"Chicago Tonight" and ABC's "News This Morning".
Bass Trombone
Mark Fry
Mark Fry is currently the Acting Bass Trombonist of Lyric Opera of Chicago, as well as Artistic Director for Chamber Music on the Fox. He is also the bass trombonist of the Elgin Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Philharmonic. Mr. Fry has performed with numerous orchestras in the United States, including the Grant Park Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Joffrey Ballet, Chicago Sinfonietta, Chicago Opera Theater, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, San Antonio Symphony, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Britt Festival Orchestra (Oregon), Sarasota Opera, and Des Moines Metro Opera. In the summer of 2001, he performed in the orchestra of the Spoleto Festival in Spoleto, Italy. Before moving to Chicago, he was the bass trombonist of the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra in Honolulu. Mr. Fry appears on recordings with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Mannheim Steamroller, New Black Music Repertory Ensemble and the Spoleto Festival Orchestra.
Tuba
Matthew Gaunt
Tubist Matthew Gaunt enjoys a varied career as a performer and educator. He has recorded and toured internationally as a former member of Burning River Brass, Proteus 7, and Boston Brass. He has also performed with Empire Brass, Center City Brass Quintet, Rhythm & Brass, Chicago Chamber Musicians, and the Millar Brass Ensemble. Mr. Gaunt performed as the tubist with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra from 2017-2020. He has also performed in concerts and tours with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Lyric Opera, Boston Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Grant Park Festival Orchestra, Chicago Philharmonic, Cincinnati Pops, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Ballet, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Sarasota Opera, and many regional orchestras in New England and around Chicago. He has performed as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician at festivals such as Tanglewood, Ravinia, Blossom, Chautauqua, and Music Masters MMCK.
Since 2017 Matthew has been on the faculty of the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University teaching tuba, euphonium and coaching chamber music.Hr is also on the faculty at Northern Illinois University and Wheaton College. Formerly visiting assistant professor of tuba and euphonium at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Gaunt also has served on the faculties of the VanderCook College of Music and the Peck School for the Arts at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee as well as the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, South Shore Conservatory, and Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras. He received a bachelor’s degree in tuba performance from Boston University and has studied with J. Samuel Pilafian, Gary Ofenloch, and Chester Schmitz.